Desperately Seeking Shapeshifter by Jessica Sims

Author:Jessica Sims [Sims, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781451661842
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Published: 2012-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Sunday was a lazy, wonderful day. Ramsey had me shift early in the morning to exercise my muscles. With his calming help, the shifts were coming less painfully, if not any faster. Still, progress was progress, and I’d take it.

He had to check in on a job that morning, so I accompanied him to a small house in the suburbs. I waited in the truck as he knocked on the door. He met a middle-aged woman there, a child perched on her hip. They stood on the doorstep talking, far enough away that I couldn’t hear the conversation, but Ramsey’s expression was grave.

He circled the house and checked the locks on the windows. Next he tested the security settings of the alarm, then he examined the bars on her windows thoroughly, testing them for strength. He didn’t seem satisfied, so he went back over them with a screwdriver. After the house was checked out, Ramsey asked her a few more questions, taking notes on a clipboard. He eventually nodded at her and headed back to the truck, and I watched the woman go inside again.

When Ramsey returned to the truck, I picked up the clipboard and flipped through the notes written. “No sightings in seven days? No attempts at a break-in? What’s all this?”

He started the truck and put it in reverse. “Mrs. Pierce is being stalked. I check on her regularly to ensure her safety.”

“Stalked? By who?”

Ramsey glanced over at me, then back at the road. “A rival clan. Her husband died last year, and another lynx clan is trying to move into the area. They’re encouraging her to cede her territory, but she’s not ready yet, so we’re keeping a close eye on her.”

“That poor woman,” I said softly. “And that’s your job? Protecting her? And others like her?”

“Among other things,” he said. “I serve the Alliance, and she is a member of the Alliance. I’d protect anyone being hunted by others.”

Just like he was protecting me. Was I a job to him as well? Just one with benefits? I didn’t like the thought. We drove home in subdued silence. When we arrived back at his house, he extended a hand toward me.

I placed mine in his quietly.

He pulled me close. “I won’t let anything happen to you, Sara. You don’t have to worry.”

“I know you won’t.”

It was nice to just spend the rest of the afternoon together and relax, and my anxiety soon ebbed. When he sat on the couch and watched TV, I threw my legs over his and stretched out on the sofa, reading a gaming magazine.

Ramsey grilled the steaks I kept bringing home—nice and rare. While he didn’t have the same cravings for raw meat that I did, he understood it. And when I grumbled about my weird tastes as a wolf and how he didn’t have the same, he leaned in and kissed my brow. “Bears like a taste of everything.”

The naughty gleam in his eyes made me blush.

Ramsey’s playful side was buried, but it was there.

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