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shit tonight.
“What’s wrong with you?” Sterling asked as he plopped down on Darcy’s bed, pulling one leg up and tucking it underneath him.
Oh, nothing. Raven just scared the shit out of me in the hallway and he didn’t seem human. “You’re supposed to knock.”
“Gee, get your panties out of your ass crack.” Sterling rolled over onto his side, grinning like an idiot up at Darcy. He willed himself to relax, taking in a deep breath and silently letting it out. He had to keep his cool. It wouldn’t do him any good to have a nervous breakdown because Raven had made him think that more than humans walked the earth.
That thought was totally ridiculous, right?
Yeah, yeah, it’s ridiculous.
Hell, he was answering himself now. Nuthouse, here I come.
“This place is so cool. There’s a large barn with horses and a corral behind the house. I saw some cows. Cows, Darcy! I know, I’ve seen them before, but not this close. I was able to pet one of the horses named Mammoth. Daniel said that one of the Lakelands would take me riding if I just asked.”
Darcy was losing it and needed to pull himself together. He could still feel his body shaking as he stood there looking at his younger brother. He wasn’t sure what to think right now. Raven had shaken him to his core.“Don’t bother the nice people.” Nice people, riiight. “They’ve already extended themselves by letting us stay here for the night.” But Darcy did keep in mind that Sterling loved animals. The guy had a weird way with them. Even the meanest dogs seemed to calm down around Sterling. His younger brother had begged for a pet for months, but Darcy wasn’t willing to have an extra responsibility, and owning a pet was a huge responsibility.
It hurt him to tell Sterling no, and now that they were on the road, he was glad he had stuck by his guns. As badly as Sterling craved a pet, it wouldn’t have been a wise decision.
“It’s just horseback riding, Darcy.” Sterling was almost whining as he pushed up into a sitting position, irritation and a big, sappy pout on his face.“That can’t be putting them out.”
Darcy hated seeing the look of disappointment on Sterling’s face. The man had already been through enough. They both had, but Darcy didn’t want to chance being asked to leave because Sterling was being a pest. And Sterling could be a very big pest. “Just don’t bug them.”
Sterling’s eyes lit up as he grinned from ear to ear. The little shit knew he won.“I promise I won’t.”
Somehow Darcy had a feeling he was fighting a losing battle with his little brother. Sterling not bugging people was like the sun not rising.
Totally impossible.
It was infused in Sterling’s DNA to be a pain in the ass. Darcy glanced at his open bedroom door and then gave in to the urge and closed it. He was still a little wigged out about the way Raven had acted in the hallway. He prayed it was lack of sleep that made him see things, but he could have sworn he had seen a hunger in Raven’s eyes as he stared at Darcy. Never before had anyone looked at Darcy in that manner, and it was shaking him to his core. It wasn’t just the fact that Raven gave him a hungry look. He could have shaken that off. But Darcy had felt the hunger as well.
That was a little more than he could handle.
“You look like shit,” Sterling said as he pushed from the bed, a bounce in his step now. Even though Darcy’s nerves were on edge, he smiled. Sterling had that effect on him.“Get some sleep.”
Sterling’s advice seemed to bring on Darcy’s fatigue. He yawned as he nodded, waving his brother from his room, feeling his eyelids grow heavy. The bed was looking more appealing by the second.“I will.”
“Oh,” Sterling said as he turned back around, nearly bumping into Darcy. He sidestepped, Sterling missing him entirely.“Pa said that breakfast will be at six.”
“Pa?” Since when did Sterling call anyone Pa ? It sounded strange hearing Sterling call anyone by a