Abel turned fully to him, keeping the drill in his hand even as he crossed his arms on his chest. “That bad. I do not want to make love with her. I don’t wanna kiss her. I don’t want my hands on her. I wanna fuck her, brother. Hard. Take her. Claim her. She’s known me less than a day and shit has not been good, not by a long shot, so I cannot do that. I gotta give her time. I gotta give her me, and not in that way. And I don’t know what this is…wolf, vampire, both…but I made breakfast with her, ate breakfast with her, talkin’ about important shit, shit that matters, shit she had to know, shit she told me about her I wanted to know, and I did it the whole time struggling with the urge to bend her over my table.”

“Fuck,” Wei whispered.

“Yeah,” Abel agreed.

“So you need to put up the door,” Wei stated.

“Yeah, and find a way to be with her and give her what she needs without takin’ from her what I need, takin’ her away. Because I go in the way I need to go in, she’ll be lost to me.”

“You gotta get your mind off it,” Wei advised.

He’d tried that, doing it by jacking off in the shower before taking off to get the shit he needed to make things more comfortable in his space for Delilah.

His self-induced orgasm was a piss-poor idea. He’d obviously done it visualizing her and it only made it worse.

Hanging the rod and curtain and installing the door wasn’t helping either, mostly because all he could think about was her naked in the shower, him with her, and what he’d do if he was.

“Didn’t find that wolf,” Wei said, and Abel focused on him again.

“What?”

“Xun and me went around, did some asking, on the down low got folks on the lookout, and Chen made calls. So far nothing. He’s vapor.”

When they moved from one location to the next, there was a reason why they did it the way they did. Understandably, Jian-Li had to come first to find and set up the space she needed for her restaurant and where she wanted to live. She did this always of a mind that Abel would need his space close to her, and she found all of that with Chen helping.