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his brow wrinkled in confusion. It was clear he didn’t see me. Shaking his head, he turned and stood next to Pyper. After a moment, she slipped her arm around his waist and leaned into him.
    He absently stroked her hair, and a small dart of…something shot through me. Jealousy? Not quite. More like an uneasy ache. I swallowed the emotion, ashamed I felt left out.
    But then, right there before my eyes, Pyper lifted her right hand and trailed her fingers tenderly over his jawline.
    I froze, my eyes wide and my heart thundering in my chest. Kane froze, too, seemingly shocked by her actions.
    I saw her mouth the word Kane . Moonlight filtered in through the tall window and shone on her hopeful gaze.
    My stomach rolled. No. This wasn’t happening. Pyper was not making a pass at Kane in his dream. One that I was shut out of, but was forced to watch.
    Pyper reached up higher, cupping Kane’s cheek.
    “Oh, hell no!” I took off in their direction, determined to stop this dreamwalk madness, by force if necessary.
    But before I could get there, Kane jerked back, scowling down at Pyper. I still couldn’t hear his words, but his meaning was clear. He grabbed her wrists and pushed her away from him, a mixture of confusion and anger in his dark eyes.
    Pyper shook her head, her expression clouded with frustration. She took a step forward and—
    I woke with a start and sat straight up in bed, taking the covers with me. “What the hell was that?” I asked, turning my gaze on Kane as I tried my best to tamp down the outrage trying to seize me. Pyper had just made a pass at my husband. The only reason I wasn’t losing my mind was because Kane had clearly been an unwilling participant.
    He stared at me for a long moment, then sat up, running a hand through his thick hair. “I have no idea.”
    Clenching my fists, I scowled. “You were just dreamwalking Pyper and if she’d had her way—”
    “You were there?” he asked, cutting me off.
    “Yes. Only you shut me out.” I knew I sounded like a petulant child, but as much as I wanted to calm down, I was having trouble turning the other cheek after seeing Pyper try to kiss my man.
    He shook his head slowly. “No. I didn’t. I didn’t do anything.”
    “Well, I know you didn’t. I saw Pyper come on to you. I saw you pull away from her. But how else could I have been shut out of your dreamwalk if you didn’t do it?” My voice shook with anger.
    “No, Jade.” He turned to me, his eyes flashing. “You don’t understand. I wasn’t dreamwalking. It was as if I was being dreamwalked.”
    That statement shocked me into silence. I opened my mouth to respond then shut it. Kane had told me once before that he used to dreamwalk Pyper fairly regularly in college. He said when he was close to someone, he had trouble controlling it. As he’d gotten older, he’d gained a better command of his gift and then after he became an incubus, control had no longer been an issue. His power had fixed that. Finally I asked, “How is that possible?”
    He shook his head, foreboding streaming off him. “I have no idea.”

Chapter 5
    “Are you saying Pyper pulled you into a dreamwalk?” I asked Kane.
    He got up, shook his head, and started pacing. “How could she? She’s not a dreamwalker.”
    I sat in the middle of the bed, watching him. My chest started to ache from Pyper’s betrayal even as my head tried in vain to come up with a plausible explanation. Had she been spelled? Possessed? On drugs? “No. She isn’t.”
    “Everything about it was wrong.” He stared at me. “You said you were there? I thought I felt you, but couldn’t see you. Why didn’t you say anything?”
    “I did. You couldn’t hear me.”
    He shook his head again. “It was just wrong. All of it. I didn’t control the setting, couldn’t see you, and Pyper was…off. It was as if—”
    “Someone else had the power,” I supplied, selfishly praying that was true. If it wasn’t, I didn’t think our friendship