Forbidden Mate: A Shifting Destinies Bear Shifter Romance (Shifters of Bear's Den Book 1) by Cecilia Lane

Author:Cecilia Lane [Lane, Cecilia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A Shifting Destinies Novel
Published: 2017-11-08T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

“The new decorations arrived!” Faith announced and dropped the box in Becca’s lap.

Becca rolled her eyes and shot Leah a mischievous look. “Can’t you see it’s my day off? I’m sitting here, trying to get my new best friend to gossip, and you’re here interrupting.”

Faith smacked her sister gently. “Oh, please. As much time as you spend not working while on the clock, you can help me unpack.”

Leah reached over and eased back one side of the cardboard. “New decorations? I’ll help.”

“Don’t humor her, Leah. She’ll expect hard work, now. I’m going to spend weeks retraining her to accept the bare minimum,” Becca said and shuffled to her feet. She opened the box the rest of the way. “These took long enough to arrive.”

“It took me that long to place the order after the fire,” Faith corrected. “Big fire. Scary ex of Tommy’s. All good now. Same guys cleaning up down the road got my kitchen up and running in no time.” She slid her eyes to Becca and sniffed. “Some people in this town know what hard work means.”

Becca snorted. “Soooo.” She drew the word out and bumped against Faith’s shoulder. Two pairs of eyes stared her down and two mouths curled up in identical grins. “I heard you went home with Callum last night.”

Leah pulled a striped shirt from the box and held it against her chest. “Oh?” she asked innocently. “And where’d you hear that?”

Becca rolled her eyes. “Small town, sweet cheeks. Now give us the scoop.”

“I’m not one to kiss and tell.”

“So there was kissing. Are we talking just lips, or were mouth presents exchanged?”

“Becca!” Faith laughed incredulously. Her voice dropped a fraction. “Did he mark you?”

Leah raised an eyebrow. “Like, give me a hickey? I have a few.”

“No, she means a claiming mark. Faith, she’s human.” Becca waved a hand up and down Leah’s body. “She doesn’t know what it means.”

“Oh, I keep forgetting.” Faith screwed up her face in an apology. “It feels like she’s been part of the town forever.”

“Well, yeah. Because Callum’s going to mate her and fill her with babies. Speaking of, when will you and Tommy give me little nieces and nephews? I need to teach them how to drive you two crazy.”

“You do enough already. I’m never letting you babysit.”

Before the two settled into their usual bickering, Leah snapped her fingers and eyed them both. “Uhm, back to the subject. What’s this claiming business?”

“When a man loves a woman—” Faith began.

“—or two men, or two women, or a whole big pile of shifters get into a love fest—”

Faith tilted her head back and stared at the ceiling until Becca quieted. “When shifters find their mates, it’s like this connection between them sparks to life. There’s no one else. The whole world revolves around that other person. Our animals do the choosing. They just stand up one day and say, he’s the one. I want him to walk beside me for the rest of my life.”

“And that’s it? No problems ever again?” It sounded unreal and too good to be true.

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