I Found My Rhino (Shifters Unlimited Book 1) by Erin Hayes

Author:Erin Hayes [Hayes, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Erin Hayes Books
Published: 2017-01-13T05:00:00+00:00

7

Ryan

“You’re awfully quiet,” Grandpa says from his wheelchair in our little kitchen. It’s a month later and the early morning sunlight comes through the window, bathing him in soft yellowish-white.

I turn from my cup of coffee—my third this morning, I can’t seem to wake up before I’m due at the zoo—and give him a weak smile.

“Just tired.”

He nods. “You’re going to kill yourself with all of this, Ryan.”

“I know.”

I am. I really am. I am sleeping something like four hours a night. The month has gone by in a tired blur. My days are filled with my time at the zoo, then my nights are spent at the bar. I refuse to let this whole rhino-at-the-zoo gig get in the way of taking care of the bar. It’s almost like, if the bar fails, I’m failing both Grandpa and myself.

Of course, once I started being the white rhino at the zoo, the bar suddenly picked up with customers. I’m not sure exactly what happened there, but my street has become entrenched in hipster culture, so it’s now packed on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Still not the hottest spot in town—not by far—but it’s doing far better than it had been doing. And with the huge sum of money that I’m getting from the Bay Area Zoo, I hired a part time worker to handle the start of every night. Jon’s pretty awesome and can line up as many drinks as the orders are given. Even though my time at the zoo isn’t really work, it’s good to have his backup because I’m still tired working so many hours.

And the enigmatic, strange cherry-on-top is Leslie. So it hasn’t been all work and no play. We play. A lot. I don’t know what it is, but I can’t seem to get enough of her. Even though I’m due every day at the zoo at 8am (10am on weekends) and the bar closes at 2am every night, I still have time to a) bend her over the bar counter, b) take her back to her place, where we fuck on every surface available, c) sleep together in my bed, or, as it happened one night, all three of them.

We’re both broken souls. We don’t talk about our pasts. Or our past relationships. After all, I promised her no-strings.

But at one point throughout the chaos that has become my life, I realized that I have feelings for her. Not just, “Hey, let’s screw,” kind of feelings. No, something deeper that I don’t quite know how to deal with.

But I don’t bring it up to her. We’re way beyond what’s appropriate for a recruiter and her talent, so I don’t want to jeopardize this.

But beyond this? I don’t know how I can do it. At all.

Because right now, I’m playing a rhino, bartender, and a man in a no-strings-attached relationship. And I don’t know if I can keep all of them up.

Grandpa’s hand covers mine and gives it a quick squeeze. “You need to take a break,” he says softly.

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