A View to a Kill: (A Bird Shifter Novella) (King of Prey Book 2) by Mandy M. Roth

Author:Mandy M. Roth [Mandy M. Roth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-08-08T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Sachin stiffened at the sound of the male voice. Last he knew Paige and Sarah lived alone on the ranch, rehabilitating horses. They’d stopped taking in troubled teens several years back. The only hired hand they’d had was a young boy, around the age of fifteen or sixteen. Surely not old enough to have a voice as deep as the one he’d just heard. He waited for any sign from Paige as to who the man was, but got his answer soon enough.

A tall man appeared from around the side of the barn, carrying a basket with him. He wore a cowboy hat and looked to fit the part perfectly—a country boy—a human country boy. Something Sachin could never be. He would forever be a warrior from another realm.

He’d thought she was a passing thing, a phase he needed to go through on his path of life. How wrong he’d been. She was so much more. An obsession. A gift the gods would not grant him. Something tugged at him from within. A truth he seemed unable to see. As he thought back to the night they’d shared, the words he’d spoken became crystal clear to him.

He sucked in a large breath.

He’d claimed a human.

He’d claimed Paige.

He had a wife.

A wife who didn’t think too highly of him.

A wife who currently had another male coming for her.

The man with the basket approached slowly, his eyes full of questions but his facial expression agreeable. There was something familiar about the man but Sachin couldn’t place him. “Who do we have here?”

Paige pushed her long auburn hair behind her ear and shuffled her feet, a sure sign she was nervous. “Umm, Bailey, this is an old friend of mine, Sachin.”

Bailey? He knew that name from somewhere. At some point Paige had mentioned it to him. As if reading his mind, Paige glanced towards him. “Bailey is the sheriff here. He helped me when I had those problems with vandals last year.”

I bet he did.

Sachin barely kept hold of his temper as he watched Bailey bend and plant a kiss on the corner of Paige’s mouth. The man dared to kiss his wife? “Mmm, baby, I didn’t know you had company today or I wouldn’t have—”

Baby?

Sachin entertained killing him on the spot. The man had some nerve.

“He just stopped by and is leaving.” She gave Sachin a daring look.

“Nonsense, I brought enough food for an army. You know how my momma is. She heard I wanted to bring lunch out to you and she insisted on coming over to my house to prepare it.” Bailey laughed and the sound grated on Sachin’s nerves. “She kept mumbling something about how bad my cooking is.” Bailey glanced at Sachin. “Care to join us for lunch?”

He’d much rather rip the man’s head from his shoulders but Sachin kept that bit to himself and nodded. “Thank you,” he managed. “I’d be honored.”

Paige gawked at him, her mouth open wide. “What?”

Sachin grinned. If his woman thought he was leaving her with another man, she was wrong.

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