Jesse turned away from the window he was staring out of and glanced over at his brother. It didn’t matter really. He wasn’t seeing anything out the window anyway. His mind was on the man sleeping upstairs in his bed. Alone. Jesse had gone up to check on Sam after giving everyone their orders. He had stood beside the bed for quite a while, just watching Sam’s fitful sleep. A part of him had wanted to wake Sam up so that they could talk. A bigger part knew he needed to get his head screwed on straight before he did. Sam confused him. Jesse understood that Sam wasn’t Lycan and hadn’t grown up with all of the rules and expectations that Jesse had. Until really recently, Sam didn’t even know about Lycan. Jesse just couldn’t figure out how to explain it all without making Sam run away. “Jesse.” “Yes?” Jesse pulled his thoughts away from his problems with his mate and faced his brother, Cort.
