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his face of all expression and lifted his chin. “To be precise, I’m an incubus.”
    Alec quickly interjected. “He’s not evil. He has his soul.”
    I remembered the feel of strong arms enfolding me and hiding my face from violence. Once again I heard his words in my head .
    You’re safe.
    Sleep, Sweetness.
    “I believe you,” I whispered. “Tell me so I can understand.”
    Samuel sagged in relief, and hope became a glimmer in his eyes. “I feed on sexual energy, and I can use it to heal.”
    A strong body was against my back. My legs spread open as a warm, wet tongue licked its way up my inner thigh. I keened and arched toward it, wanting, needing his mouth on my pussy.
    The flash of the dream was so intense I felt my panties dampen. Samuel’s eyes turned gold and glowed. Alec’s nostrils flared as his chest rumbled in a low hungry growl. “That was real, wasn’t it? The first night I was here, you both touched me.”
    “You had a bad head injury. Your brain was bleeding and swelling.” Samuel met my stare steadily. “I held you while Alec used his mouth on you. Using the pleasure you both felt I managed to stop it before permanent damage was done.”
    Alec dropped his gaze. “That was all I did.”
    I stared at them. “That first night, was it the only time?”
    Alec slid his gaze to Samuel as they exchanged a guilty look.
    “So the other night, when I watched Alec dreaming, that wasn’t a dream either?”  I covered my mouth as they shook their heads. “Were you ever going to tell me? Or were you going to keep letting me think I was having freakily real wet dreams?”
    Alec shook his head. “We weren’t going to touch you again until you knew the truth.”
    “You gave us permission,” Samuel said.
    “Because I thought it was a dream!”
    “We didn’t realize that at first. Maybe we didn’t pay close enough attention but after all those years of waiting for you…” Alec hung his head. “I’m sorry.”
    “Why were you waiting for me? What exactly am I to you?”
    “When I chose to be Samuel’s familiar, his protector if you will, I was given a stronger body and an animal form that matches who I am. A wolf in my case.”
    My eyes widened as every shifter book I’d ever read smacked me in the face.
    “You’re Alec’s mate,” Samuel said before his lips twisted wistfully. “And since he is my familiar that means you are mine, too.”
     
    * * * *
    Well, Becca, what now?
    “I don’t know.” My whisper was lost in the spray from the shower. I lifted my face into the cascading water as I tried to assimilate what I had learned through the day. They had been so patient with me, letting me ask questions when I was ready and staying quiet when I needed it.
    An incubus was a rare supernatural creature, Samuel had explained, much rarer than the more common shifters and vampires. I had to take a breath as I remembered that piece of information. Focus on the ones in the next room! You can wonder how true to life a Bailey Bradford book is later!
    The highlights were that Samuel had his soul, he would only lose it if he used his abilities to drain the energy from someone until they died. A familiar acted as safety valve, the incubus—Samuel—could feed off Alec’s pleasure, removing the risk of losing himself to the hunger and draining the source. But he would never be able to feed well enough to achieve his full strength. He would still be immune to aging and disease.
    “So you can’t die?”
    Samuel had met my gaze steadily. “If you destroy my heart or take my head, I will. Or if you imprison me where I couldn’t feed, then I would starve and finally fade into death. But only then.”
    I had only been able to stare at him, shocked that he had given me such trust.
    The benefit to the familiar was the gift of strength and a secondary form. Alec would also live as long as Samuel, and he would only resume aging if their bond was broken by Samuel’s death.
    It was almost unheard of for an