Griffins and Apple Pies (Shifters and Sweets Book 3) by Zoe Chant

Author:Zoe Chant [Chant, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-05T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Ugh. Stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Wait, why am I the stupid one?!

Natasha stomped over the muddy path, the wet dirt squelching beneath her angry tread. She wasn’t the one who’d stood someone else up for a date, and then, instead of just being honest about it, had concocted some ridiculous lie about being a… a…

What did he call it again? A shifter?!

She shook her head, anger shooting through her. She’d barely been able to sleep last night from her agitation about what had happened after she’d – foolishly, as it turned out – allowed Kieran to try to explain himself to her.

If he’d just told the truth, like telling her he’d had car problems or that he’d forgotten the time while he was working on the place he was staying in, or even that he’d gotten his days mixed up and had thought they were supposed to be meeting at some other time, she probably would have given him a second chance, despite her swearing at Sylvie’s that she wouldn’t.

When he’d turned up at her B&B, though, with his apologetic face and his frankly amazing bouquet of flowers and his thoughtful gift of pie, she’d found herself reluctantly melting – for some reason, her heart had told her to at least listen to what he had to say.

Life happened, after all, and she didn’t have a heart completely made of stone. He’d seemed so genuinely like he wanted to apologize that she found herself almost hoping he’d have some kind of explanation, no matter how lame, just so she’d have an excuse to forgive him and suggest they could go out for dinner instead.

But I wasn’t expecting… that!

Why had he made up such a stupid, obvious lie? Just to mess with her?! He had to have known that he wasn’t going to be able to turn into a mythical creature right in front of her eyes, so what had been the point in any of it?!

Maybe he was just some weirdo who got his kicks playing pointless practical jokes on people – maybe there’d been some hidden camera somewhere, and he was trying to go viral on social media or something, doing pranks or trying to get attention in order to sell something. Natasha worked in marketing so she was obviously aware of these things, but she had to say she didn’t really agree with the ‘all publicity is good publicity’ maxim – she never advocated for any client to do whatever it took to go viral, no matter how stupid, ridiculous or cruel.

That must have been what it was, she thought, shaking her head. She really couldn’t think of any other reason why Kieran would have said something like that. Maybe he was hoping she would believe her, so he could put up a video of her to make fun of her for his followers.

He just really, really didn’t seem like the type, she thought, shaking her head. But she supposed that was the point – if he’d

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