Ghostbound (Portland Ivy Book 1) by J.E. Cluney

Author:J.E. Cluney [Cluney, J.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

“Hey, I didn’t know your mom lived here. So she teaches at the school?” I asked as I followed Percy to the back room of the family home. I shot a quick text to Maurice about needing her to look after Axle for the night too. I’d be back by early morning hopefully.

Gene and Heather had a large home with a number of spare rooms. I could only assume it was for other pack members when things were rough.

Alex hadn’t been too pleased when I’d left him chatting with Gene to go talk more privately with Percy.

He wanted to ask me something, and I felt uneasy knowing that.

“Yeah, she used to teach when I was kid. As I got older, she spent more time at home than at work while my father mainly worked,” Percy gave a sharp laugh. “At least, that’s what he told us.”

“What do you mean?”

“My father never actually married my mother. And all that extra overtime he spent at ‘work’, he was actually seeing another woman from another pack,” Percy said as he slumped down on the couch.

A sunroom was what the back room was, but the dark night sky was all that greeted us now.

“I’m so sorry,” I murmured as I sat down beside him.

“Don’t be. You can’t abandon the pack, but you can marry into another one. There are loopholes. My mother was a wreck at first, but she threw herself back into work. She loves working with the kids,” Percy said with a smile.

“That’s good that she loves her work.”

“What about you, what’s family like for you?” Percy asked, his hand sliding across to squeeze my knee. I caught my breath, the heat rising in me from such a simple touch.

I knew he noticed too as his nostrils flared and eyes dilated. Bloody ‘wolves with their super sensitive noses.

“My mother died from breast cancer after my eighteenth birthday, and my dad disappeared shortly after that. He became so different when she was dying, giving his all in helping her, and when she finally passed, it broke him. I haven’t heard from him since,” I said, and I could feel his pitiful stare.

“I’m so sorry, Ivy,” Percy murmured as he took my hand and squeezed it.

“It was years ago now,” I shrugged in an attempt to shake the sadness that had settled on me. I tried not to think of my parents anymore. I did sometimes wonder what had happened to my father, where he’d gone, what he was doing. If he even thought about me.

“So you’re Alex’s secretary then,” he changed the subject, which I was grateful for.

“Yeah, I got the job a few years back, it’s interesting at times, and other times there’s just so much paperwork to do,” I laughed.

“I’m glad I never had paperwork to do, all I ever did was patrol buildings.”

“Didn’t that get boring?”

“Yeah, I guess. I enjoyed the quiet though. I worked construction for a few years before that, helping build some of these homes,” he indicated

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