

It looked very red against the white wood floor.

He yanked the front door open and went still at the sight. Then, he was sprinting toward to the house, ignoring Jules’s calling his name. Liam jumped out of the helicopter before it even finished landing. He would gladly bear Jules’s I told you so if it meant Anthony was perfectly safe and healthy. He wanted to be wrong about Anthony being in danger. All he wanted was to see Anthony and make sure he was all right. It didn’t help that Liam had to spend most of it pretending to be asleep to avoid Jules’s probing questions he had no answers for. It was the only thought he had for the rest of the ride. Whatever this bad feeling was, it wasn’t going away.

They’d always been very attuned to each other. He’d just grazed his teeth against his mating gland. Could Jules be correct and it was just some kind of mate-related separation anxiety? Was it possible? Anthony hadn’t bitten him. He was usually a lot more sensible and even-tempered than that. Was he? He wasn’t this snappish normally that was true. “Let him sleep,” Liam said, barely suppressing the urge to snap at him to stop wasting precious time.ĭuring the helicopter ride home, he closed his eyes and tried to analyze whether he really was acting strange.
