Grayslake: More than Mated: Bear Up (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Mina Carter

Author:Mina Carter [Carter, Mina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2016-09-18T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 5

“What the fuck are you going to do about that skin?”

Dean sighed as Anderson started yelling demands before his ass had even cleared the frame. One day he was going to put a deadbolt on the door to make all assholes like Anderson book appointments to see him.

Reason for meeting: whine number seventy billion about how bears are superior and should rule the humans? Check. Round fucking file.

A pleasant fantasy about dragging Anderson out into the pit and beating the ever-loving crap out of him simmering in the back of his head, Dean gave the man a hard look.

As usual when dealing with his Itan, Anderson was in full sheriff costume. It was almost as though he thought the symbols of human law enforcement would make one iota of difference in bear territory.

It didn’t. Instead it made Dean want to laugh and ask where the fancy dress party was. That probably wouldn’t help, so he didn’t. But he didn’t miss the fact that most of Anderson’s little clique wore uniforms where ever they could, be that their leader’s sheriff getup, various veterans’ uniforms, probably down to boy scout uniforms if they didn’t have anything better.

It would make him chuckle if it wasn’t so pathetic. It was a blatantly transparent attempt to bolster their collective ego by making themselves look meaner and tougher than they really were.

Hell, if he and Morgan wore their uniforms… But that would never happen. Sure, they had them. Somewhere. He was fairly sure they had a rack of medals apiece as well, but damned if he remembered what they were. Their unit hadn’t been the sort that wore fancy uniforms a lot, and bringing everyone in their unit home after each mission was worth more to them than a whole chest full of medals.

“Which of the humans put a bug up your ass now?” His answer was a growl as he ran his hand through his hair and suppressed a sigh. He hated that term for humans. It was insulting and racist, two things he’d been brought up not to be. “And you’re the damn sheriff. Why come to me?”

“Not the humans.” Anderson’s lip curled back into a sneer. He might have been sheriff for the town, but no one in the clan was under any misconception he’d sought the position to protect and serve, or to uphold human laws.

The guy was a power junkie, pure and simple. When he couldn’t get that power in the clan, refused a position as enforcer by Dean’s father and then Dean himself when he’d become Itan, he’d gone out and gotten it another way.

“I’m talking about that damn skin, Creed.” He spat the name, his voice dripping with hatred and contempt.

Dean arched an eyebrow, his expression neutral as he faced down the angry sheriff. “Exactly what do you want me to do about him? And for what reason? As far as I’m aware, he’s broken no clan rules.”

Anderson had been pacing Dean’s office, but he now whirled on his heel to face Dean.

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