Freakn' Out (Freakn' Shifters Book 7) by Eve Langlais

Author:Eve Langlais [Langlais, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781988328126
Publisher: New York Times Bestselling Author
Published: 2016-10-25T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Despite the mishap in locating Derrick—I really thought I’d have to hunt him down and force him—the road trip passed rather peacefully. Despite the sexual tension between them, there was also a genuine like for one another, and when he wasn’t barbing her or trying to push Janine away, they could have the most interesting conversations.

It passed the long trip. While Derrick started out driving, the highway part of the route being the longest, she took over once they hit an exit. She made sure to give him a pit stop so he could use a washroom, and she said not a word about the fact that he took a few minutes longer than other people to do his business and glared at those who dared to complain outside the locked door.

As she took the familiar twists and turns to her parents’ house, she couldn’t help a touch of anxiousness. How would her stepdad react? With her, Orson was the most lovable teddy bear a girl could ask for, but with anyone he thought threatened her? Poor Jeremy wouldn’t even look at her in the hallways of school after that time he dared call her an ugly name.

But Derrick isn’t a threat to me. Unless losing her heart counted.

Pulling up in front of her parents’ place, she slowed the car.

Derrick let out a low whistle. “That is some house,” he said.

A shrug rolled through her shoulders. “I guess. All the houses in this area are kind of big. Suburbia at its finest.” Set on an acre, with protected parkland at the back of the property, the house was a two-story colonial style with giant white columns in the front and a façade of windows. It might look impressive to some, but to her, it was home.

“The place looks massive,” he mumbled as she eased the car in behind a dark blue BMW.

“It is a decent size, and really nice inside,” she admitted. “As a councilmember, Orson entertains a lot. Apparently, it’s important when we have visitors, especially from other countries, or even the occasional wild group that doesn’t necessarily recognize council rule, that we impress them.”

“So you had a lot of strangers and shifters coming in and out of your life as a kid? That must have been interesting, or did you even know what they were? You never did tell me how you found out your stepdad was a bear. Did he just come out and tell you? I thought the admission of our existence was strictly prohibited.”

“It’s not allowed, but he and my mom had to do something the night I caught her outside hugging a bear in the yard. I’d gone to get a drink of water from the bathroom and saw them from a window. I ran outside screaming and begging for the bear not to eat my mom. At that point, I still had nightmares about my dad dying. Orson felt horrible about my panic and changed right then and there. Which, of course, made me scream more.

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