I Dream of Grizzly_A Werebear Shifter and Witch Romance by Keira Blackwood & Eva Knight

Author:Keira Blackwood & Eva Knight [Blackwood, Keira & Knight, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Deckard

Wafflick was uncharacteristically silent on the drive back. No pointing out building types, no thrusting greasy food in my face, no anything. It was a pleasant surprise.

Instead of enduring the pup’s antics, I was able to enjoy my closeness to Valerie. This time it was her in the middle, and the fact that the truck had a bench seat wasn’t so bad. Her leg brushed mine, and her whole body slid into me as the truck turned on the curvy mountain roads.

When I pulled the truck into park at the pack house, I wished the drive had been a little bit longer. Now that we were here, I’d be stuck hiding in my room or saddled with my idiot of a partner, while Valerie went about her day. No, after the attention the witches had given her at the bar, I didn’t wish the morning had gone on longer, just that night would come faster. Then, we could be together again, in dreams. It was easier there, if not strange. There wasn’t this unsettled feeling in my gut, no overthinking what I did or said, just the connection underneath it all.

Wafflick threw the truck door open and raced up toward the door.

Valerie watched him, then looked at me, her lips twisted to the side. “Do you think he has to pee again?”

I shrugged.

I expected her to get out of the truck, to walk away and disappear into her room. She didn’t.

“Want to go for a walk?” she asked.

“Sure.”

I climbed out of the truck and met her around front.

“This way.” She smiled softly, and headed toward the tree line across the expansive yard.

I walked beside her, and admired the way her dark hair fluttered in the gentle breeze, the way the midday sun cast a soft glow over her fair skin. She held her head high and her shoulders square as she moved, making her seem taller than she was. I wondered if the way she held herself had anything to do with being human amongst shifters, a subconscious way to claim her place. But she wasn’t just one of the pack, she was more.

“I used to hang out with my mom while the pack ran together. We were the only two who couldn’t shift,” Valerie said. “We always took the same walk, to the same place.”

Learning more about her was a privilege, one I cherished. It must have been difficult growing up in a shifter pack without being a shifter herself. Only harder after she became the only one.

There was a path worn into the earth. It began in the grass, but grew deeper and wider as we breached the edge of the forest. Thick trunks reached for the sky, their dense blanket of broad leaves filtering light and casting the ground beneath in shadow.

“How long ago did she pass?” Why did I ask that? She’d made it clear before that she hadn’t wanted me to know that her mother was gone. I should have left it up to her to tell me what she wanted to, and nothing more.

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