Man in the Middle [Wolf Creek Pack 9] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour ManLove) by Stormy Glenn (elon musk reading list txt) 📗

“Nice.”

“That’s kind of why I’m calling. I need your mate’s help.”

“Yeah, sure, whatever you need.”

Chase grinned as a feeling of closeness with his brother swept through him. He had always been close to his brothers growing up, but the last few years had put space between them. It was nice to know that his brothers still felt the same way about him.

“Justin has gotten himself into a little trouble, you might say. Prince Dominic believes that Justin is a vampire and not a diabetic. I’m not so sure. I haven’t smelled vampire on him since the day I met him, until now. Considering that we are currently staying in a house full of vampires, I can’t know for sure that what I smell is coming from Justin or someone here in the house.”

“Whoa, dude, you’re staying with Prince Dominic Ruelle?”

Chase almost groaned. He so did not want to explain to his brother exactly why he was staying with the prince, but he knew he would have to at some point. “It’s a long story. I’ll explain it to you when you get here.”

“Get here?” Devlin sighed. “I’ll need to talk to Zac about that, Chase. It’s kind of against the rules for covens to associate with each other. Let me make sure that this is something Zac feels comfortable doing. He’s kind of—hold on.”

Chase pulled the phone away from his ear and stared down at it for a moment before putting it back up against his ear. He heard someone talking, two voices, but they were muffled so he couldn’t quite make out what they were saying.

“My prince has informed me that not only am I dumb shit for even questioning his willingness to help you and your mates, but we will be on our way to Prince Dominic’s estate just as soon as Albert can get us packed.”

“Uh, thanks.” Chase could barely hold in his grin as he replied to his brother. It seemed that Devlin’s mate had his brother’s balls in a vice. “It will be great to see you.”

“Yeah.” Chase could hear the amusement in his brother’s voice. It was good to hear his brother so happy. “Maybe I should call Donovan, Flynn, and Elliot, and drag them along with me. We can have us a regular family reunion.”

“As nice as that would be, maybe we should hold off for a little while. Things are kind of dicey at the moment, Dev. Besides, last I heard, Flynn and Elliot were visiting with Mom, Dad, and Tereza at some lake.”

“Oh, yeah.” Devlin chuckled. “Dad mentioned something about that.”

Chase smiled despite the situation he found himself in. Devlin never was good at remembering things like that, especially if they didn’t involve his prince. When it came to Prince Zacarius, however, Devlin remembered everything.

Chase wondered if it would be the same between him and his mates.

“It would still be nice to get together at some point,” Chase said. “I still haven’t had that much time to get to know Tereza or Elliot, and—” Chase lifted his head and cocked it to one side, a sound from outside the prince’s study catching his attention. When he heard it again, the sound of someone yelling, Chase knew he had to go investigate.

It sounded like Justin.

“Let me call you back, Dev,” Chase said and then he hung up before his brother could say anything else, his mind already turning to the sounds coming from the hallway. Ignoring the confused look on the prince’s face, Chase stood and walked toward the door. He opened it and stepped out into the hallway, listening again.

“Marco!”

Chase grinned and started walking down the hallway.

“Marco!”

He could hear Justin coming closer, but he was pretty sure the man was upstairs from him. Chase quickly made his way to the bottom of the stairs and waited until he saw Justin come into view, and then he snuck around the side of the staircase and hid from view.

“Marco!” Justin called out again.

Chase pressed his lips together to keep from laughing out loud as Justin walked down the stairs, calling out “Marco” every few steps. It was absolutely adorable. The man was obviously lost in this gigantic home, and Chase thought it smart as hell, and comical as well, that Justin was walking through a vampire coven shouting.

As Justin reached the bottom of the stairs and started down the hallway Chase had just come down, Chase stepped up behind the man. He liked this game.

“Marco!” Justin called out once again.

“Polo!” Chase called out as he swept Justin up into his arms, ignoring the man’s small yelp of surprise as he grabbed him.

“Chase,” Justin whispered, tilting his head to one side and giving Chase more access to the creamy arch of his throat. Chase took full advantage, licking a line up the side of his mate’s neck. “I was looking for you.”

“I heard.” Chase laughed. The pure delight he found in holding his mate in his arms astounded Chase. He knew he would be possessive, and might even be slightly obsessive, but he never realized that just holding Justin would bring him such joy.

“You were gone when I woke up.”

Chase could hear the accusation in Justin’s voice, along with the hurt. He knew what Justin thought even without the man saying anything. Justin thought he had left. He knew his mate had grounds to feel that way after his recent behavior.

“I didn’t go anywhere, mate,” Chase whispered against the side of Justin’s neck. “I was simply talking to Prince Dominic about you and this whole vampire thing. I wanted to know why he believes you are a vampire. That’s all.”

Justin sighed deeply as if a great burden had been lifted from his shoulders, and Chase felt like crap. He turned Justin in his arms and cupped his hand around the man’s chin, tilting Justin’s face up to his.

“I’m not going anywhere, Justin.” Even though he spoke the right words, Chase could see the disbelief in Justin’s eyes, and he knew only