Dragon Returning (Torch Lake Shifters Book 1) by Sloane Meyers

Author:Sloane Meyers [Meyers, Sloane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“May I walk you back to your office?” Russ asked, doing his best to ignore the teasing, raised eyebrows on the faces of Jake, Leif, and Clint. He needed to make amends to Mandy. Now was not the time or place to worry about whether the guys were going to tease him.

The guys, he thought. Did I really just refer to them as ‘the guys?’ I better be careful, or I’m going to start thinking of them as my crew. The last thing Russ needed right now was ‘a crew’ in Torch Lake. He was happy to be on good terms with his fellow dragons again, but that didn’t change the fact that he was planning to head back to Chicago as soon as his job here was done. Getting too close to anyone here would make that move much more difficult. Better to keep all his new friends at arm’s length.

“Um, sure,” Mandy said.

She sounded confused, but Russ shouldn’t have been surprised by that. After all, the last time he’d seen her he’d been yelling about how awful she was, and saying that he’d never help her. Now, he was helping her out at her Council hearing, buying her beers, and offering to walk her back to her office. He supposed no one could blame her if she thought he was sending mixed signals.

Russ told himself to choose his words carefully with her, but when he found himself walking beside her on the sidewalk a few minutes later, he had trouble choosing any words at all. Faced with the prospect of actually opening his mouth and apologizing, he realized that words were a woefully insufficient method of explaining his feelings. As a result, they walked in near silence all the way back to her office. He was swirling around a thousand different ways to apologize, and god only knows what she was thinking. They made it all the way to her office door before he finally spoke, and when he did, all he could get out was her name.

“Mandy.” He stared at her, wishing he could somehow make her understand the depths of emotion that filled him when he spoke her name. But she couldn’t read his mind, and he couldn’t seem to organize the thoughts swirling in his mind into any kind of coherent sentences. He stared at her awkwardly for a few moments until she coughed nervously and looked down at her feet.

“Do you, uh, want to come in for a minute?”

God, did he. He wanted to come in and spend the rest of the day with her. Talking, explaining, begging forgiveness. But again, words failed him, and so he merely nodded, and followed her into the small office. She shut the door behind him and gestured for him to take a seat, but he didn’t take the invitation.

Russ knew deep in his bones that this was a pivotal moment in his life. He didn’t know how all of the details could possibly be worked out between Mandy and him, but he knew that he wanted her in his life.

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