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

still didn’t quite understand Justin’s motives in leaving Taylor. And he wasn’t sure he had the right to question Justin about it.

But he had to ask anyway.

Call him suicidal.

“Why did you leave Taylor?” Justin’s shoulders moved against Chase as he shrugged. Chase smiled slightly. “That’s not an answer, Justin.”

Justin’s burst of laughter was muffled from the way that he had his face buried in Chase’s chest, but he heard it anyway and it brought a smile to Chase’s lips. “Tell me, baby.”

Justin sniffled as he leaned back and tilted his head up to Chase’s. He stared into Chase eyes just long enough for Chase to wonder what the man was thinking for the strange look on his face.

“Taylor has always taken care of me, even before we were lovers. Since the day we met, he seemed to make it his mission to make sure I was cared for and safe. He’s done so much, even going against everything he believed in just so that I would be safe. And I guess I thought maybe if I wasn’t around, he’d have someone to take care of him for a change.”

“You thought I’d claim Taylor if you weren’t around?”

“Yeah, sort of.” Justin shrugged again. “I hoped, anyway.”

“You know Taylor is going to be pissed when he finds out.”

Justin chuckled. “Yeah.”

“I am pissed.”

Chase’s head snapped around and up. He grimaced. Taylor stood at the head of the stairs, staring down at him and Justin with a grim look on his face. Chase watched him come slowly down the stairs, staring intently at Justin the whole time.

Chase frowned when Justin started to shake. This wasn’t good. If they were going to try to make a go of this thing between the three of them then they needed to work together, not make Justin so upset that he was shaking.

“Taylor—”

Chase’s eyebrows shot up when Taylor held up his hand. Had he just been silenced?

Taylor finally stopped when he reached the bottom of the steps, and he crossed his arms over his chest. He looked imposing. It was actually kind of hot, but Chase didn’t like the way it upset Justin.

“Taylor, this is—” Chase snapped his mouth shut when Taylor held up his hand again. Taylor never took his eyes off of Justin.

“Justin,” Taylor said, “look at me.”

Justin shook his head.

“Justin.”

“I don’t wanna,” Justin murmured against Chase’s chest.

Chase felt a growl building in his chest when Justin’s shaking increased. This was not the way to settle things between them. Justin was not a child. The three of them were adults, and Taylor needed to start acting like one.

Okay, so he had run from his mates, but he had good reason, Taylor did not.

“Please?”

That was better.

Justin slowly lifted his head and turned to look at Taylor over his shoulder. “I’m sorry,” Justin whispered.

Chase felt his eyebrows climb up his forehead again when Taylor suddenly smiled. He knew he was new in the relationship already established between Taylor and Justin, but he really felt out of the loop.

Maybe the two could give him a hand guide or something until he learned his mates’ gestures and body language. It would sure as hell help.

“That’s all I wanted to hear, Justin.”

When Taylor opened his arms and Justin pushed away to dart into them, Chase released his mate, waiting to see what Taylor would do. If Taylor upset Justin any more than he already was, he and Taylor were going to have to have a long conversation.

Out back.

Naked.

And preferably soaking wet.

“I love you, Justin,” Taylor whispered against the side of Justin’s head. “You can’t scare me like that again.”

“I won’t,” Justin replied. “I promise. I just wanted—”

Taylor’s lips were curled up at the corners when he lifted his head to stare down into Justin’s eyes. “I know what you wanted, love.” Chase blinked in surprise when Taylor glanced up at him. He felt kind of like an outsider with the two men. “And it worked, didn’t it?”

Justin was grinning so huge that it seemed like his lips stretched from ear to ear as he turned and looked at Chase. “Yeah, it did. He’s ours now.”

What in the hell did he just miss?

Chapter 12

 

“Hey, Justin, do you have a few minutes?”

Justin turned to see Danny standing in the hallway behind him. It was weird to think that not only was he looking at a vampire, but someone who might be his brother. Still, he liked the guy. Danny and his mate had been nothing but nice to Justin since he arrived.

“Sure, what’s up?”

“I wondered if you would go with me to talk to my brother, Samuel.” Danny frowned for a moment, staring down at his hands. “He doesn’t see a lot of people, but I thought maybe he’d agree to talk to us. Maybe he knows a bit more about my father than I do. He used to be Father’s golden boy before Father sold him.”

Justin had kind of forgotten that his father might be a total asshole, assuming he was actually related to Danny. He had also forgotten that if he was related to Danny, he had another brother.

Samuel.

Damn. He had left to get away from it all and ended up back with his lover, a wolf-shifter who had claimed him, and a family he never know about. How in the hell did that happen?

“Yeah, I can do that. Just let me tell Taylor and Chase where I’ll be.” Justin felt his face flush a little as he kicked at the carpet with the toe of his shoe. “They kind of get upset when they don’t know where I am.”

“Right?” Danny snickered. “If I don’t check in at least once an hour, Dominic loses his mind.”

Justin grinned. “That’s a little weird to get used to.”

“You have no idea.”

“Oh, I’m getting there.” Justin smiled again and then started backing up. “I’ll be just a second.” Justin turned and started down the hallway. He was pretty sure the last place he had seen his two mates was the dining room.

“Uh, Justin?”

Justin paused and