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my
neck before his cold voice reached my ears. “What the fuck’s going
on here?” Gideon Casteel towered over me with none too pleasant
expression. His eyes were bloodshot and his clothes disheveled. “I
could smell the hunter before I even drove up.”
    Matthew stood and scowled at him. “Acie
is a guest in the Landon home. You have nothing to say about
it.”
    Gideon was larger than Matthew and
moved forward menacingly when tiny Claire stepped between them.
“Enough. Gideon, I asked you to join us for dinner because this
shit needs to end.”
    Gideon didn’t look at me. I could feel
the rage rolling off him as he tried to control himself. “You
neglected to mention you were expecting another guest.”
    “ Acie was your friend and
now she’s back. I was wrong once too. She’s no threat. Quit
listening to goddamn Michael and pull your head out of your
ass.”
    Gideon shoved his hands in his pockets
and turned away, simmering.
    “ You just home from UCLA
for the summer?” I asked suddenly. It was the wrong thing to say.
Clare winced and Gideon turned around, his eyes wide with anger.
Before I could register what was happening, Gideon changed. His
eyes grew bright and their shape changed. His face elongated and
instantly sprouted a million bristly strands of hair. I fell
backwards into the dirt as he bared his teeth and leapt toward
me.
    “ STOP!” Cade Landon stood
at the back door, glowering with fury.
    Gideon’s wolf face glared at me and he
retreated. In the space of a breath he returned to his human form.
His shirt had torn where changing muscles had bulged and ripped
through the fabric.
    Cade motioned to Benji and Zane, who
had reached us and were slack-jawed with shock. “Boys, take him for
a walk and get him under control.”
    Matthew lifted me under my armpits and
I swayed unsteadily on my feet. Decorum aside, I was sick of being
bullied by a surly werewolf. I stalked over to where Gideon was
still seething and kicked him hard in the shin. It was childish, I
knew. Risky, too. But Gideon only glanced at me with surprise
before Benji and Zane hustled him away.
    Distantly, I heard the plaintive wail
of a baby’s cry. “Stupid boy,” Claire swore and retreated into the
house. Tatum shot me a quick look of pity and followed
her.
    Matthew coughed. “You all
right?”
    I began brushing dirt from my pants and
trying not to shake. “Fine,” I said through clenched teeth.
“Although if you don’t mind, I’m not really hungry
anymore.”
    “ Nonsense,” Cade snorted.
“Acie, please accept my apologies. He will not behave like that
again. If he does, he will be dealt with.” Cade looked meaningfully
at Matthew who nodded.
    Claire emerged with an angelic little
creature in her arms. The baby blinked at me and cooed. Matthew
grinned and let the baby wrap her little hand around his finger.
“Acie, meet our daughter, Peyton.”
    I stared at the baby girl. She was
perfect, flanked on either side by adoring parents. Who also
happened to be werewolves. Which meant that someday, whether she
wanted it or not, she would be a werewolf too.
    Tatum appeared on the patio and
gleefully rang a large bell. “Dinner!” she yelled.
    A long time passed before Benji and
Zane returned with Gideon. After a few minutes I stopped glancing
fearfully at the dining room archway. I believed Cade when he said
Gideon’s aggressive behavior would not be tolerated in his house
and I felt somewhat safe. But I also suspected I was not done
dealing with Gideon Casteel.
    Tatum kept up a steady stream of
chatter, firing questions at me and allowing half a response before
she moved onto the next one. Cade grinned at her as she ate
voraciously and plumbed my personal history. I didn’t feel
comfortable relating my many private failures at the dinner table
so I kept my answers short and my mouth filled with
food.
    I blushed when Claire abruptly opened
her blouse and began feeding the baby. Surely I had seen women
breastfeeding before