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her.”
    “You’ll do no such thing.” The sharp shake
had Trent fighting dizziness, but then he was let go. Staggering, he nearly
fell, then was lifted up and laid in the bed by the vampire. “You frightened
her, and she called to me. In all my years of being with her, she has never had
a reason to call out to me in fear.”
    “I need to touch her.” Trent didn’t just need
to touch her…he had to or he’d die. And the need was making him hurt. Then he
looked at the man and thought for a second. “She.... My dad did this, didn’t
he? Sent her in here and made me think she was.... This is some sort of joke,
isn’t it? She’s not really my mate, and someone is just playing tricks on me
again.”
    “I don’t think she would find this funny. Do
you?” Probably not, but he didn’t say that to the vampire. “Noah Stark, at your
service. And if she is your mate, you will have a great many things to explain
to her. Me as well, but more importantly her. I love her, you see, and I will
not see her harmed. Not again, and certainly not by a man that thinks to claim
her.”
    ~~~
    Christine had no idea what had happened to
her son since he was released from the hospital, but she was sure that whatever
it was, she could fix it. She loved her sons more than she did her own life and
hated to see one of them like this. Sad, lonely...depressed. Even having his
favorite things made for him didn’t seem to make him come out of it. When TJ,
her husband of nearly forty years, came into the office with her, she knew that
he had seen it too.
    “The doctor told him to take on a new life or
die.” Christine knew this as well. And she thought that her husband might want
to do the same. Well, “want” might have been the wrong word, but he needed to
take some precautions as well. She could not live without him either. “He’s
moping around like he’s lost everything. I don’t know what to do for him.”
    “He needs to go home.” That much was
apparent. He was her son, and she loved him to death, but he needed to go home
and begin whatever he was supposed to be doing. And away from her too, she
realized. “I can’t help him...well, I can, but I think that’s not doing him a
bit of good. He needs to make his own way in this. We can’t do it for him.”
    “I think you might be right.” She was always
right, but didn’t point that out to her husband just now. It was a joke between
the two of them and had been for some time. “He needs a good talking to first.
When you going to do that?”
    “Me?” TJ nodded. “I see. And this talk, will
it be along the lines of him getting his ass in gear and getting out of our
house? Or did you want me to be harsh with him?”
    “Just get his dander up a little. You can do
that. All he does is look at me like I’m not even there. I don’t like that.”
No, Christine thought, her husband would not like being ignored. “You suppose
he might need me to set him up again?”
    “You do and I will leave you.” She knew what
TJ had done in hiring a date for Trent. He swore to her that he’d had no idea,
but she wondered. While she loved her husband, she worried about where his mind
was at times. “I’ll talk to him and then we’ll go from there. He needs to get
on, not sit around here where I’m waiting on him hand over foot.”
    Christine made her way to the deck, where her
son was currently sitting, after asking Meggie to make him a sandwich. She’d
missed the young girl, Joe, a great deal the last few days, wondering if her
being there might have brought her son out of his funk. Just someone to talk to
or to argue with. Christine didn’t care at this point.
    Trent had been on the deck off and on since
he’d come home from the hospital three days ago, and she wondered if he was
going to move back in with them. He couldn’t. Not now. The doctor had told them
that he needed to move, do things for himself. And living with them wouldn’t
get that for him. As soon as she sat