And Then There Were Four novel Chapter 107

Chapter 107: Freaking Out James

James.

Sitting at the kitchen counter the next morning, I stared off into the abyss, thinking about everything that had happened last night. Ivy had come into my room and rocked my world as she usually did, but she said something I couldn’t explain.

A feeling that overwhelmed me, and like a passenger in a car, I was forced to take a back seat while something else moved forward. Thinking of it now, how whatever it was moved with Ivy in sexual pleasure all night long, slightly haunted me.

My Lycan was brought forth, awoken from its slumber, and I wasn’t sure how it had worked for my brothers, but for me… it was completely done in a sexual nature.

And now that it was awake, I could feel it underneath my skin.

Waiting to break free.

Cackling in the back of my mind.

“Hey, James,” Talon exclaimed happily, causing me to jump-six inches off my chair as I spun around, staring at him with wide eyes.

“Don’t do that.”

Laughter escaped him as he stared at me with an odd

smirk, furrowing his brows. “What the fuck is wrong with

you?”

“I don’t want to talk about it,” I replied quickly as I tried to divert my attention back to the soggy cereal in the bowl in front of me.

How was I supposed to explain to my brothers what had happened? How Ivy was acting was completely unnatural.

It was like she was her, but also not.

As Talon stared at me, I tried to ignore his gaze, but then Hale came bounding into the kitchen with a smile upon his face and an empty bottle in his hand. He had taken shifts this morning with Ivy to feed the twins. We kind of rotated it just to make it fair, seeing as I spent most of my time with her and them, and they didn’t get to that often.

I was grateful, though, for the rotation this morning be cause, honestly, I didn’t think I could face her. After what she had done with me last night… I was in shock.

Whatever was inside me, she put it back to sleeping and just left, and I lay there in the dark, staring at the ceiling, try ing to wrap my head around whatever the fuck had just hap pened.

“What the hell is the matter with him?” Hale replied, caus ing me to glance up as he and Talon exchanged curious looks.

“That’s what I’m trying to figure out. I came in here and said hey, and he jumped out of his seat as if the boogeyman was after him.”

As their eyes both turned back towards me, Hale stepped

forward, raised a brow, and placed the bottle down on the counter. “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing’s wrong. Why would you think something’s wrong? I’m perfectly fine.”

“Cut the shit. I can tell something’s wrong with you. I haven’t seen you this fucking nervous since the day you lost your virginity,” Hale replied, causing Talon to snort with laughter as he crossed his arms over his chest, giving me an amusing look.

“Fuck you. Tracy Ann was a complete fucking psycho bitch, and you, Talon, were the one that set me up with her,” | snapped at him, narrowing my gaze as I crossed my own arms over my chest, trying to show him he couldn’t get underneath my skin.

Not that he’d be able to.

There was something else lurking beneath there now. Something that laughed in the back of my mind at the current situation.

“Oh, stop it,” Hale snorted. “I can tell that something is wrong with you, so either you tell us now, or else Ivy will worry when I explain to her you’re not yourself.”

Mentioning her name, I froze and both of them stared at me and then looked at each other, seeing how I reacted upon saying her name. “There’s no need to tell her.”

“Did something happen between the two of you?”

Shaking my head rather quickly, I was doing a horrible job and trying to show them I was perfectly fine. So, deciding to

avoid the conversation, I quickly stood from the chair, taking my bowl to the sink and rinsing it out. “No. Why would you think that? I just had a bad dream, that’s all.”

“A bad dream?” Hale replied. I could feel his eyes boring into the back of my head, but I refused to look at him.

“Oh look, here she comes. Now, why don’t we ask her?” Talon said, making my heart lurch as I spun around, only to see an empty doorway and Talon and Hale, looking at each other with smirks on their faces.

Fuck, they caught me.

“OK, now that we got that out of the air, we definitely know that it has to do with Ivy. But what I don’t understand is why. You were perfectly fine with her yesterday, and now all of the sudden, you’re acting as if you’ve seen a ghost. So you can either tell us what’s been going on, or we can go ask her.”

Hale had a point. I couldn’t keep it from them forever. I had to tell him what she did, not that I didn’t enjoy it. I did en joy it. I enjoyed it very much.

But she pulled the Lycan from me, awoke it, or whatever she did.

Glancing around, I stepped forward, looking down the hall, and then looked back to my brothers before gesturing to them with my hand to follow me out back. The last thing! wanted was for Ivy to hear the conversation I was about to have with them.

Opening the door, I stepped out into the cool air, and looked over my shoulder at them, waiting. They looked at each other and back at me, letting out a scoff that was almost

the sound of laughter as they stepped outside.

But even being out here just on the other side of the door wasn’t good enough, so instead, I started walking toward the guest house. Towards the woods that laid on the other side of it.

I had to get far enough away from the house so Ivy would not hear me tell them what I was about to, or anyone else for that matter. The last thing I needed was somebody else laughing at me.

“Dude, where the fuck are you taking us? We don’t have time for this shit today,” Talon said as he rolled his eyes, fol lowing behind me.

By the time we made it to the tree line, I looked around at the house, making sure she wasn’t looking at any of the win dows or anything like that, and when the coast felt clear enough, I finally let out the breath I had been holding.

“Yeah, You were one of the first people that went to bed and said you were tired and had a headache,” Hale replied, giving me a scrutinizing gaze.

day yesterday. But that’s beside the point, because I woke up in the middle of the night to Ivy standing in my bedroom naked… and not just that, she was calling my name like some weird… ritual or something. Then she straddled me! We, you know....” 

“We fucked okay?” | snapped at him, running my hand over the front of my face before it reached up to rub the back of my neck as I thought about what had happened.

dead panned expressions on their faces as their arms that were once crossed over their chest fell loosely at their sides,

Like it was something I really wanted to explain. I mean, being a werewolf is one thing I had years to adapt to. The fact that I shifted into a wolf, that is,