Chapter 6

Then Jim did.

“Liar,” he said, and the sight of slit pupils shook Nathan to his core.

Nathan gasped as he awoke. Something had him pinned to the bed and the air was being crushed from his chest. Panicked, he looked down at his body, but breathed relief when he saw it was only Jim. His brother was curled around him like they were twelve years old again.

Nathan reached up to rub at his eyes, frustrated when he found dampness. The man he knew only as ‘Gabriel’ often chased him in his dreams, but he hadn’t dreamed of that particular night in years, playing out events exactly as they had happened in life. Except for the ending. Jim had never had eyes like a dark fae. Other than on the beach the day before. But Nathan was certain that the flash of slit pupils he had seen when his brother first returned to him had only been a trick of the light.

Pushing Jim onto his own side of the bed, Nathan took in a few deeper breaths. They were way too old to share a single.