Country Alpha City Omega by Tabatha Austin

Author:Tabatha Austin
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Kindle Unlimited
Published: 2019-02-19T05:00:00+00:00

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We sat in the car, took turns driving, and ate too much lousy roadside food before I saw a familiar open field. I thought I remembered it, but details like the tall trees and a miles-long gravel road returned.

I rubbed at my head. Jake put his head against mine and whispered. “The town’s confused.”

I raised an eyebrow. “Please don’t tell me the town is alive.”

“It’s just a saying,” he said quietly. “You’re still shaking off the old life. It took me a few days.” His voice lowered. “Although I stayed in Whispering Hills.”

“So, nobody can find us?”

He opened his mouth as if to say something and instead sighed low. “The town’s ability isn’t in preventing people from finding you. It’s about making them not think much when they’re here and then forget about it once they’re gone.” His hands whitened as they wrapped around the steering wheel. “Alex, I’d like to tell you that there’s absolutely no way nothing will happen. I thought as much with my men overseas.” He pursed his lips into a frown. “Everything about me as an Alpha, wolf, and your lover wants me to say you’ll be safe and dammit, I’ll do everything including die for–”

“Don’t say it,” I said.

“But it’s true.”

“I know, I just don’t want to think about that.” In my business, I didn’t have to imagine, it was too easy to superimpose his face on a pale-white, still body. I shook away the image, and he got the hint.

“We’re on the main route, and people forget about us once they leave as long as nothing’s out of the ordinary, but…”

“If there was a tracker when we pull into town.”

“They’ll find us. Disbelief only works so much.”

We turned right on to the dirt road. “There’s a town full of shifters.”

“Yes, but we can’t predict how many men they would bring. You show a large enough group something they absolutely know isn’t true and well, it’s playing dice with the universe.”

I took in his words and looked at the twisty road again. “Did you ever see Disbelief happen?”

He licked his lips. “Not directly.” He jerked his head north as if the direction had significance. “Henry Simmons,” he said then shuddered. “Nobody calls him that anymore.”

“Dead?”

“No, the sheriff told me the story, and I think he couldn’t convey it all.” He pointed north. “We don’t get much in the way of mountains here but there’s one, and Henry owns it. Not in the way you’d think. Anyone who goes there, shifter or otherwise, doesn’t come back.”

There were questions to ask, most notably what could kill a shifter.

“Henry was… stubborn. Figured Disbelief would save him, and if it didn’t well, he’d get rid of them before they could trigger anything. Some folks think he didn’t change that much afterward. Just finished what his mind started so the mind and body matched. We don’t know what happened; Henry’s not big on talking anymore, but we can make assumptions.” The speed slowed as he turned toward me, yet with one eye to the road.

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