What does Home mean?

Just another day.

Holly, despite her young age, is very careful with Charlie and Mikhail.

She's also extremely protective of them, around strangers, until she gets used to them.

I picked Mikhail up by the tail, as he'd managed to get stuck in the clothes hamper and Holly had come up to me squeaking and making noises.

I know the sounds of distress, even if neither one of us know what she thought she was trying to say.

Brent did know.

"One brother stuck!" He translates.

"Okay, we're both telepathic. Why can't I read her mind?" I ask.

"I didn't read her mind. I read her mental expressions.

It's more difficult than simply reading her mind.

You're telepathic and only an empath with me.

I'm able to use all of my psychic abilities on anyone, so, yeah." He stated.

"No fair."

{Totally fair because I love being able to translate tiny terror speech for you.} He thought.

....

Last night, I learned something about Brent that I'm, honestly, very much okay with.

He was laying on his back and, after reading one of his books, coupled with things I'd heard people talking about, I foolishly tried something that I wasn't really comfortable with.

The character in the book really enjoyed it and, like I said, I have heard people in the city casually talking about it like it was something amazing.

I moved between his legs and licked him.

He grabbed the nape of my neck and brought me up to face him.

Laying me on his chest, he sighed.

"Not a fan of that kind of thing." He said.

I smiled.

"Sorry, I thought you might like it. I should have asked first." I said.

He nodded.

"Your canines are too close together for it to work, even if I were into that sort of emotionless pleasure.

No one performs oral sex out of love.

It's all lust, no emotion other than,  maybe, excitement and I'd rather make love to you than "fuck her face" as Lady Gaga said in her excuse of a song called, Pokerface." He says. His voice was dripping with disgust.

A little while later, there was scratching at our door and Brent got up to find Holly with one of the twins.

He seemed to panic, momentarily, and his eyes glowed crimson.

I immediately became anxious but, I waited until Brent was finished.

Sighing, he sat back, holding Holly and Charlie as he softly cried.

I moved to sit beside him and hugged my husband.

He'll explain when he calms down.

......

Holly felt like she was suffocating, even though she was breathing just fine.

She moved over to her brothers and sniffed at them.

Mikhail was fine, though, Charlie wasn't breathing.

She nudged him but there was no response.

He was still warm and she immediately bit the nape of his neck and ran up to her parents' room.