The Complete Crimson Forest series

Bryxx: Chapter 12

When I hear the car pull up in the driveway, my nerves peak and I freeze thinking that it'll take them a minute to get into the house. Wrong. As soon as I hear the car, they are blasting through the front door.

"Where is he?" Daniel demands, a long silver knife in one hand.

"It's okay. I'm fine and he's outside. Don't hurt him!" I shout in a panic. What the hell is planning to do to him, stab him?

Daniel's lips curls up angrily and Kai's leather clad body hurls towards the door they just came in.

"If he was going to hurt me, don't you think he'd have done it by now? He's been with me for weeks! If it weren't for him I'd have been killed more than a few times. Daniel, I swear to god, if you hurt him!"

Daniel closes his eyes briefly and takes a long, shaky, deep breath. "I know you don't know much about our world, but you have to know that vampires are volatile and they're not in control of their bloodlust. He could snap at any minute."

I keep the fact that he already almost snapped to myself and also that fact that he killed a cow to myself, knowing that tidbit of knowledge won't help Kade's case any. "He won't. I trust him with my life," I admit partially to Daniel but also partly to myself.

A whoosh of air causes me to glance to my left. The blur slows beside me. Kade. Then Kai storms through the front door again. My senses are too slow to see Kai and Daniel both rush at Kade, but a moment later, I see Kai dazed on the floor looking confused. Kade is holding Daniel against the wall.

"You know you're too young, weak, and untrained to get the upper hand on me, but I must say I like the effort, boys," Kade snarls with annoyance. "Now, can we talk this through like civilized men? May is little delicate for us to be throwing ourselves around in close proximity, don't you think?"

Daniel's body relaxes, and he nods once, his face still pinched. "Fine."

Kade releases Daniel and steps back from him. "Why don't we sit at the table?" Kade suggests civilly and points a thumb to the mahogany table.

Daniel sighs and begins walking towards it, his feet dragging.

Kai stands up from the ground. He glares daggers at Kade. He then fixes his disheveled hair before following the other two men to the table. My stunned ass doesn't follow until all three of them are seated at the table and looking at me expectantly. I hurry over.

Just as I sit, Daniel points a finger into Kade's chest. "You get banished and the first thing you do is shack up with my little sister?!"

My eyes widen and my jaw drops.

"It wasn't like that. She was the only person outside of the community that I knew. I didn't know where to go. I screwed around for two weeks and then I just sort of ended up in Seattle on her doorstep," Kade explains himself and crosses his arms at his chest. Technically, he ended up on my old doorstep but I don't correct him.