Free Christopher: Blood Brotherhood – Erotic Paranormal Dark Fantasy Romance by Kathi S. Barton

Then to show him, she paused his memories on the faces of the men in the front. “They knew us. I know them. They worked for her father, Pella’s father. And they were there to kill us.”
    “They ran you off the road. But you swerved in the other direction, into the hillside, instead of the other side where the embankment was, taking the impact on your side and not your wife’s.” Chris said that it had put them in a tailspin, tossing them all over the road until they hit the guardrail. “Pella was hit by their car when it came back around; they’d been put in a free for all as well. When your car swung around to them again, they rammed their car into your wife’s side and she took the brunt of the accident rather than you. It was not the way that they had planned it. Both men in the front were hurt, but they managed to drive away.”
    “So they hit us hoping to kill me and not her. But why?” Kate pulled her hand away and he stopped her before she could pull her body away too. “Don’t leave me. I want...I don’t know what I want, but I don’t want to be alone. Talk to me. I know you know more than this. What happened to those men? Someone would have been pissed that things didn’t go as planned. Where did they go?”
    “They’re all dead. All three of them were killed by your father-in-law as soon as he found out from them that you’d lived but his daughter had not. Had the child lived, he would have been satisfied…bringing up the child in his image would have been fine with him. But his daughter and grandchild both were killed that day.” He nodded. “The child…you know now that it wasn’t yours. That she was trying to have you raise another man’s child. At least until her father came around or killed you. Which she was hoping for from the start.”
    “I would have raised him as my own. Gladly. Not for her, but because...because whoever the man was, he wasn’t going to be in his life and I was.” Kate nodded, her body still wrapped up in his. “Will you let me kiss you, Kate?”
    “I don’t think that’s a good idea, do you? I mean, we don’t even like each other.” He leaned closer, his breath warm and sweet against her mouth. “I have to tell you something. You might already know.”
    “You’re my mate.” She nodded. “Yeah, I’m a little slow, but I figured it out this morning when I was in the shower and thought about you and connected. I can only do that with my mate, and I was never able to do that with Pella. I thought...well, it matters little what I thought now. But I do want to kiss you.”
    “Because of the changes in our bodies you can tell that we’re one.” He asked her what had happened to her. “Sigils are where there were none before…not a great many, but a few of them. I have strength that I didn’t before, as well as...oh, Chris. Will you please kiss me?”
    “Gladly. But that’s not what I meant.” He brushed his mouth gently over hers. It was quick, unsatisfying, yet made her know that there was a great deal more. “I meant about your mate. You said that you didn’t suit.”
    “He was my mate, but not all of them are fairy book happy. Mine wasn’t. He hated me as much as I did him. Ben was a hateful and mean man who thought the world owed him everything because he was who he thought he was.” He told her his wasn’t either as he kissed her again. This time he took her lower lip into his mouth and nibbled while he lifted her up by her ass and turned with her in his arms. “Are we going somewhere?”
    “To my bed.” Nodding, Kate moved her mouth to his throat, tasting his warm skin while he took the stairs two at a time. She wasn’t sure where his rooms were, but they seemed too far away all of a sudden. “You’re going to make it so we don’t get there if you keep that up. Not that I want you to quit, but Christ almighty woman, I need you.” Kate couldn’t help it, she giggled.
    As soon as they were in the room, her clothing just