Braxton's Warrior by Lynn Howard

Author:Lynn Howard [Howard, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twisted Heart Press LLC
Published: 2020-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Campbell didn’t want to talk about this. She really didn’t. But her tongue was wagging and her lips were moving without her brain being a part of the conversation.

“I’m so sorry,” Brax said softly, reaching over to take her hand.

She pulled away from him. She didn’t want his comfort. Didn’t need it.

Liar.

Campbell squeezed her eyes shut. It wasn’t that she didn’t need someone to hold her. She’d pushed every emotion except anger so deep into a box she was afraid his touch would release Pandora and all the wicked shit that came with her.

She expected Brax to be upset she wouldn’t let him touch her. Instead, he looked understanding, compassionate, sad for her.

“This was your sister’s home?”

Campbell nodded.

“That explains the extra scent.”

Narrowing her eyes on Brax, she asked, “You can smell Caren?”

“That was her name? Your sister’s name?”

“Yeah. My parents planned on naming all their kids with C’s, but they stopped after Caren. I don’t know if the two of us were too much of a handful or if they decided they no longer wanted a stereotypical Catholic family of eight.”

Brax chuckled. “I used to want a big family. But one would be fine with me, too.”

“You want kids?” she asked, surprise making her voice a little high.

For some reason, she hadn’t pictured any of the Shifters having families. But they’d been born like she had. They had moms and dads and brothers and sisters like her. Daxon was Brax’s brother.

“Do you have any sisters?”

“Nah. Mom and dad couldn’t handle any more after the two of us. Daxon was…how do I put this...he kept my parents on their toes.”

“Oh. And I suppose you were an angel,” Campbell teased. She still felt a little on the loopy side, but at least she could think clearly.

“I’m still an angel,” he said, grinning wide and making a halo over his head with his hands. The smile began to fall little at a time. “I’m sorry about your sister.”

“Thank you,” she whispered, dropping her eyes to her legs.

“So that’s why you hate us so much.”

“I don’t hate you,” she said, raising her gaze to his face.

“I’m only one person. There are thousands of Shifters out there. Only a tiny fraction of that population would ever hurt a human. I hope you believe me.”

Campbell nodded.

More and more she was beginning to believe she’d had it all wrong about his species.

More and more, she was beginning to trust Brax.

“You started going after traffickers because of your sister?”

Again, Campbell nodded. “At first, I was only looking for the son of a bitch who killed her. Turned out there was more than one. There was a group of these guys who were stealing women from the street, their homes, wherever they could find them. I killed them one by one,” she said, sneaking a look at him to gauge his reaction to her admission.

He didn’t bat an eye. In fact, he held what looked like respect all over his ridiculously gorgeous face.

“We’ve been trying to find their leader for a couple of years now.

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