Bourbon and Bears: Book Three: Shifters and Sins by Lane Cecilia

Author:Lane, Cecilia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A BAD Alpha Dads & Shifting Destinies Novella
Published: 2019-10-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

A persistent knocking on the front door jerked Ellis awake. His head pounded in time with the rattle against the house. Or maybe that was his own worry-induced hangover shaking things around.

His wolf growled at him to make it stop.

Fuck. What had he been thinking? Kissing Maylee after she’d told him some dark shit?

He’d been thinking he needed to stop her from leaving.

Because locking lips was the surefire way to make a cautious woman who’d already seen the rough side of relationships stick around.

The next round of knocks cut his argument with himself. His wolf’s growl rumbled into the air as he threw himself out of bed and into a wrinkled pair of jeans.

Maylee poked her head out of her room once he hit the hallway and, fuck him, he nearly stopped dead in his tracks at the wisps of hair stuck up from sleep.

The knocking sounded again and Esme let off a wail.

Ellis shook himself and motioned her back inside. “I got this.”

Yeah, he didn’t care who was on the other side of the door. They were getting a fist to the face for waking the sleeping cub.

Ellis whipped open the door with a growl which he cut off immediately. Alanna and Wyatt bracketed Atticus, their grins competing with the cub’s glare as he dutifully held out a drink holder filled with steaming to-go cups.

“Good morning!” Alanna chirped cheerfully. “Apologies for coming over so early. We brought coffee to make up for the intrusion.” She peeked around the doorframe. “I hear Esme. How are the girls doing?”

“We’re fine!” Maylee called as she came out of the back hall, bouncing Esme on her hip. The tears of a rude awakening had dried up to begrudging smiles and half-hearted laughs. Grumpy cub probably wanted her breakfast.

Alanna slipped past to help take care of Esme while Wyatt and Atticus lingered with him by the door.

“All good, big guy?” Wyatt asked.

Ellis slashed his eyes to the side at the trace of concern in the man’s voice.

He’d looped Jensen and Wyatt into the news as soon as Maylee fled back to her room. After their kiss.

The words echoed through his head. After their kiss. After their kiss. Fuck him, he’d taken advantage of her and she’d run away. He just couldn’t keep from shooting himself in both feet, then sticking those suckers straight into his mouth.

Ellis blinked. Wyatt looked at him expectantly. Well, fuck him. So the long, tense night without sleep left him a little off. Nothing those cups of coffee wouldn’t fix.

“Fine,” he answered. He plucked one of the coffees from the holder and resisted pouring the whole thing down his throat in one go. Barely.

In the kitchen, Maylee and Alanna quickly turned the hungry cub into a smiling mess. Esme’s eyes shot wide at the first blueberry she shoved into her mouth, then giggled when one shot off her tray and rolled across the floor.

“Yum,” Maylee encouraged and offered a spoonful of yogurt. “Can you say yum?”

“MMMMM!” Esme exclaimed.

“So, what

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