Their Mating Rituals [Paranormal Protection Unit 4] (Siren Publishing Classic) by Honor James Read Free Book Online Page A

I’ll stick around and read while we wait for the drugs to wear off. Full bathroom’s through that door there,” he pointed. “Kitchen is right next to it and fully stocked. Run about as you want or sleep as long as you like,” he advised her honestly.
    “Thank you.” She crawled up into the bed beside Aiden and continued to stroke her hand over his chest. “Thank you, Allister,” she murmured when they were alone. “For everything.” For keeping her secret, for keeping her from Talon, everything. “Do you think that he will wake soon?” she asked softly. “I just want to know he’s all right. I can’t even hear him in my mind and that has me so worried.”
    “He’ll wake soon.” He believed it. He had to. The drugs would burn off at a steady and then accelerating rate. “About an hour or so and he should start to come around,” he said to her. “Just be aware when he starts to wiggle around you may need to sit up and be next to him but not right over him. His mind will go straight into battle mode, something all of us have when we’re disoriented.”
    “Yeah, and I seriously think that he would feel very bad if he hurt me by accident, so we will need to make sure that he doesn’t,” Lina said as she lay beside Aiden, her hand stroking up and down his chest, over his shoulder and back again. “I just need him to wake, to heal.”
    “He is healing,” he told her quietly as he picked up his book and took a seat in the large armchair. Kicking his feet out, he crossed his ankles and smiled at her. “He’ll wake up right on his own schedule. He is firstborn, which means he thinks he’s always right.” He grinned. “Even when he’s not.” Something she’d have to learn to deal with.
    Lina grinned. “Well, I’m an only child and always got my way. So he’s going to have to learn that he’s not always right, that I’m the one who’s right,” she said with a smile. “I will help ease him into that though instead of beating him over the head with it. Well, at first at least,” she added with a smile.
    Bursting out laughing, he shook his head. “Good luck with that. He’s not only always right, he’s also stubborn, pig headed, thick skulled, and many other names I could give you but won’t because it’s not nearly as much fun to harass him when he’s out cold as when he’s awake.” Watching her for a moment, he nodded. She’d be just fine. He had a good feeling about her.
    Leaning in closer to him, she pressed her forehead to his and said, “You and I are going to butt heads more often than not, but I think that we will be able to create a great deal of things together that we will be able to be very happy about. I have a feeling that we will have a good life together.” She hoped so at least. “But I need you to wake up first.”
    It was well over an hour before Aiden started to stir. Allister moved from his chair and to the bed, gently shaking Lina. “He’s coming around,” he murmured. “Sit up and ease back a little,” he told her quietly as he sat down on his brother’s other side to wait. “Come on, bro, wake up,” he encouraged softly as he watched the little twitches and shifts in his brother’s face.
    Lina watched Aiden as well and added her voice to Allister’s. “Come on, Aiden, wake up so that I can know you are all right. I need you to wake up, honey, need to know that you are going to be here with me for a while.” She all but begged him. “Please, Aiden, I need you.” Those three words were spoken in absolute certainty.
    Nodding to her, Allister rolled his hand around, a signal to keep talking. He caught Aiden’s hand that came up without thought in a lazy sort of swatting motion. “I’ve got you, bro,” he said and took his brother’s other hand in a loose grip. “Come on, buddy, wake up.”
    “Come on, Aiden. I need you, honey. I need to talk to you. I need you to tell me about bond-mates. Aiden, I need you to show me that you will never leave