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“What did you guys do?” Bryan demanded.

“Just a boundary spell. He wasn’t going to let us take care of this,” I said. “There’s a nest of vamps in town. They’re murdering people and dumping them in the street like trash after they’re done.”

Bryan flinched.

“If we had played along with Thierry, more people would have died,” Michael said. He fixed Tobias with a speculative look. “If you can pop off a locator spell, we’ll be on our way.”

Tobias snorted. “There’s no way in hell we’re letting you guys go off on your own. You need us.”

Tobias and Bryan exchanged a look that spoke volumes. They, too, were holding hands. And there was an easy familiarity to the two of them that caused me to feel a pang of emotion. Michael and I could have that too.

Soon enough.

One last hunt,Michael agreed, flashing me a smile.At least for a little while.

I nodded back at him. I waited for the fear to come back: that maybe I wouldn’t be enough for him once we no longer had a shared purpose. But it didn’t.

Instead, the future seemed, for the first time, to be filled with possibilities.

You’ll always be enough for me. Always. It doesn’t matter if we work on cars together, or hunt monsters, or if we just spent every hour of every day exploring the world. Or hell, we could take up knitting together—

Knitting?

I couldn’t help but laugh at the mental image of Michael and I trying to figure out how to turn a ball of yarn into something that a person might want to wear. There would definitely be a lot of swearing and recriminations involved.

Yeah. Knitting.Michael rolled his eyes.Point is, you’re already enough for me, Danny. You always have been. You always will be.

“Wait a second,” Bryan cut in, leaning forward, his green eyes going wide and his jaw dropping. “Are you two—”

“Yeah,” Michael said, grinning. “We totally are.”

Tobias grinned back at him. “I never thought I’d see the fucking day.”

But Bryan was still staring at me. “And you—are you guys… um. Doing everything now? Like, are you guys actuallytogether?”

If a hole had opened in the earth right then, I would have jumped in with both feet. But Michael let out a sharp bark of laughter and when he glanced over at me, his eyes were dancing with amusement.

“I’ll fill you in on everything later,” I promised Bryan. “But for right now, we have bad guys to hunt.” I paused, then met Tobias’s gaze. His pulse beat under his skin, and I ignored it. Michael gave my hand a comforting squeeze. I added, “That is, if you’re willing to help out with a spell to help us find the nest?”

“We did just travel across the country for you guys,” Tobias reminded me, after exchanging a look with Bryan. “We’re, um… friends?”

I felt a flash of warmth through the bond.

Michael’s mental voice was smug when he said,See, he’s totally going to ask me to be his best man.

I couldn’t help but smile at that. To them, I replied, “Yeah. We’re friends.”

Bryan’s eyes seemed to widen even further. “Whathappenedto you two?”

Michael and I exchanged another long look. Michael grinned at me. And I couldn’t help it, I grinned back.

Like a fool in love.

Tobias sighed. “I suck at locator spells. I’ll call Poppy, but we’ll get this handled.”

“We?” Michael asked, sounding surprised.

They exchanged a glance, but it was Bryan who spoke. “I won’t hurt anyone, but you might need another set of hands. Just in case.” His gaze landed on me, and I couldn’t help but understand his meaning. He added, “We’re coming with you.”