Gabrielle Demonico by Shifters Unleashed (Five Volume Box Set) (Retail)

Author:Shifters Unleashed (Five Volume Box Set) (Retail)
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3
Published: 2013-09-19T23:00:00+00:00

Tigers on Tour

Anabelle Mitchell leaned against the back bar in the Troubadour Tavern, a small crowded college venue about fifteen minutes south of campus.

It still didn’t seem real to her.

How could it be that twenty-two years of her life had come down to something as ridiculous as this?

She shook her head in disbelief and took a mental inventory of the challenges she’d fought through. She wondered if any measure of fairness actually existed in the universe. If it did, it never seemed to find its way to her.

Orphaned as a toddler, she’d been hustled through no less than nine foster homes by the time she’d finished high school. With sheer grit, she’d managed to put herself through college on her own and was on the verge of graduating and taking the next step – law school and achieving her dream of becoming an attorney.

There were only three things standing between her and that now. One was her journalism class and the other was two men who stood no further than fifty feet away from her. For the record, Anabelle had all but sewn up straight A’s in her other classes and under most circumstances, journalism would have been no different. After all, overachievement in the classroom was nothing new to her.

In fact, much of the semester of her journalism course had passed as expected. She seemed destined to ace it but just two weeks earlier, the class instructor, Professor Wilkinson announced that each student would be required to complete a ‘special project’ in lieu of remaining tests and even final exams. To drive home the point, he also announced that a full forty percent of the final grade hinged on the completion of the ‘special project’.

Professor Wilkinson was passionate about his course material but this was unprecedented, even for him. He explained that he’d wanted his students to feel journalism and so he had created unique assignments for each and every one of them – Anabelle included.

Worse still is the fact that Professor Wilkinson had a real knack for assigning his students tasks that he knew would be difficult for them – emotionally as well as intellectually – and hers was no exception in this regard.

If she had one weak spot, a single chink in the emotional armor she’d worked so hard to build it was her penchant for introversion. Unfortunately for Anabelle, the Professor’s assignment seemed cruelly intent on exposing it.

And it did seem downright cruel to her…

Really, who could blame her for being a little socially awkward? After all, being orphaned at such a young age has been known to cause far worse outcomes in life. How bad could some shyness really be? Deep down Anabelle knew that it wasn’t the most awful character flaw one could possess.

But the assignment cut straight into the heart of her fear – she couldn’t deny it. She’d done everything in her power to conceal that weak spot from the scrutiny of a callous world. She’d even gone so far as to

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