Penny's Protector (Icehome, #9)

by Ruby Dixon

“You are both fools for not keeping an eye on the most precious thing on this beach,” he tells them. “I will take care of her. S’bren will not let her come to harm.”

"I'm older than you. I'm twenty-nine.” He shrugs. "This does not matter to me. I…" He frowns to himself and swallows the words. "What?" I prop up on an elbow and poke him with my other hand. "What were you going to say?" The base of his horns goes dark again. "I…would take you at any age.

What about resonance?" He scowls at the thought. "If the time comes and you resonate to another, he will have to make room in the furs because I am not leaving you."