Elijah's Mate~Shifter Nation~Werebears Of Big Bend by Meg Ripley

Author:Meg Ripley [Ripley, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-13T05:00:00+00:00

12

Valentina

I stared hard at the point where my spray hit the flames. My hands gripped the hose, holding it straight under the force of the water rushing through it. At the other end of the boat, another hose was being operated, but I paid no attention. I kept my focus on my water and nothing else.

If my mind started to shift to something else, I brought it right back to what I was doing. Only by doing that could I keep my mind from thinking about Elijah and everything that was happening. But no matter what, the bear inside me tried to claw her way out daily, seeking what she wanted most: Elijah.

Now I had a new worry. I still hadn’t been able to take a pregnancy test. I didn’t know if it was just fear or if I thought not knowing would somehow make it all go away. As long as I didn’t have a test saying I was pregnant, the chance still existed that I might not be. The only problem was, I already loved the idea of a baby that was half me and half Elijah. I thought of our child, and loved him or her already, without even knowing if he or she existed. Even if not now, my deepest hopes told me we’d have one someday.

If I was going to have a baby, I would need my family more than ever, and I needed to make sure they were safe. If I couldn’t raise our child with Elijah—and I knew it would be impossible for that to happen—then my mom and siblings would be the ones who would help me. Many of my neighbors would be helpful, too. That was one of the benefits of living in our tiny, tight-knit village: plenty of hands to help and eyes to watch. Of course, that was also the reason for my biggest source of heartache.

I had been able to confirm that Javier had no fewer than ten of my fellow Demonios watching me and reporting my actions to him. Some of the informants had told me themselves, like Miguel and Oscar, but it was more of a warning from them to be careful than anything else. But when I went to the store in the next town over, I came back to Boquillas to find Javier waiting for me. He knew what time I’d left on my horse, and I’d only seen one person on my way out. I figured out a few other informants based on who I’d seen before Javier showed up. One or two had come from my brother’s suspicions.

That was part of the reason that I hadn’t taken a test yet. I didn’t want anyone seeing me do it and somehow reporting back to Javier that I was pregnant. If I was, I had no idea what would happen when I started showing. Would he assume it was Elijah’s? What would he do about it? My biggest fear was he’d assume I’d gotten

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