A Shifter's Second Chance by Marie Johnston

Author:Marie Johnston [Johnston, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LE Publishing
Published: 2018-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Gray held the door open for Armana with a crutch. She breezed out, giving him a saucy look. He didn’t need a shifter’s senses to tell him the sway of her hips was exaggerated, and he liked it.

He closed the door and descended the stairs to stand beside her. His gaze caressed her face. “It’s going to be hard to pretend we’re nothing more than friends with survival in common.”

“Yes, it will.” Did the sadness in her eyes match his own?

Probably. He couldn’t risk Cassie questioning his stability by questioning his decision to sleep—or not sleep—with her mother-in-law. He definitely couldn’t risk Armana’s relationship with Jace.

Gray didn’t care much what Jace thought about him, as long as he didn’t try to interfere with his relationship with his daughter. But Armana would need Cassie’s good opinion in order to heal the rift between her and her son.

Family drama sucked and Gray wasn’t going to leave Armana and their kids to wade through it all while he went back to eating supper alone at his tiny kitchen table, oblivious to the paranormal world around him.

He wanted one more kiss from Armana, but they had to meet the Guardians at the base of the trail. One kiss wouldn’t be enough when he’d found pure bliss in her body not an hour ago.

She’d mentioned their scents mingling already because they’d been so close together for the last couple of days, but she hoped the desire would fade as they sweated their way down the trail. Yet they couldn’t stop themselves. He’d been in that rickety folding chair and she’d crawled on top of him.

Geez, he felt nineteen again. Old enough to discover the wonders of sex and be able to do something about it. But they had to hide it from their children like they were nothing more than teens hiding from their parents.

His ankle felt better after a night of moderate rest. It’d been propped up, even during all the…activity. The food hadn’t been tasty, but it’d been more than edible and he started down the trail recharged, with no whispers in his head.

Armana stayed behind him like when they’d come up the trail. The narrow dirt path was wide enough for his feet, and the terrain was flat enough for his crutches to find purchase.

They worked their way down slowly. Armana didn’t prod him on. It was like they were both resisting the end to their forced rendezvous. Birds chirped around them and the canopy of leaves saved them from the worst of the sun’s rays. The parking lot was almost in sight.

“Jace?” Armana sidled around Gray without disturbing his trek. “There are two of them waiting for us and one is Jace.”

Gray increased his pace. Armana wasn’t going far from him, but both of them wanted to know if Jace’s presence meant the cause of the danger had been removed.

As the trees thinned close to the trailhead, another vehicle came into view. A black SUV, like what the Guardians preferred to drive.

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