A BAG OF MIXED BLESSINGS

Dean and Oli called in all their enforcers, and he had everyone getting ready to beef up their territory’s protections.

That’s when Oli’s phone rang. “It’s Keith.”

“Answer it.” Dean needed to know what was happening to his sister. Actually, she was his half-sister. They shared a mother, but he knew they had different fathers. She never spoke of either males. Dean didn’t know either males’ names, and she’d not left the information with anyone or written anywhere.

“Keith, what’s going on? It sounds like the yelling has stopped.”

“It’s only just stopped and one of them barricaded the door. We still can’t get in and they won’t respond. But you won’t like this. I still don’t know if he’ll go through with any attacks, so I don’t know if he’s accepting the threat of war. But I can’t say whether they’re mated either. It was brutal listening to whatever happened in there.”

“Well, that was the last thing I expected to hear from you. Will we be seeing you at Jordan’s