Lars: Shifter Romantic Suspense (Rubicon International Book 2) by Ann Gimpel

Author:Ann Gimpel [Gimpel, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ann Gimpel Books, LLC
Published: 2016-06-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

He froze, not certain he’d heard right. “What? What did you just say?”

She wriggled against his hand splayed across her chest. “Let go of me. I’m a shifter, same as you. I wanted to hug you, and you tossed me back into my seat like I was a rag mop dolly.” Tamara tapped at a single ebony claw extruding from the tip of his index finger. Lars fought a sheepish grin, but it was a losing battle. He sank back into his seat with stern exhortations to his cat to retreat.

He wanted to draw her into his arms, hold her close, but he felt suddenly shy. Just because they shared the same magic—and made each other hotter than hell—it didn’t necessarily mean a thing, other than he could let his guard down a few notches. “Did I hurt you?”

“No. I was more startled than hurt.” She rubbed at the reddened place on her upper chest where he’d held her and shot him a rueful grin. “Either I’ll be learning German, or you’ll be brushing up on your Irish.”

He snorted. “Gaelic, Irish, and Welsh are probably the only languages where I cannot hold my own.”

“That’s often the way of it. German is almost the only European language I don’t know.” She folded her fingers together and rested her chin on them. “Sure and you’re a mountain cat. I recognized the claw.”

“What are you?” Curiosity burned deep. He wanted to see her in her other form, wanted to get to know all of her.

“The same.”

Joy burned a path through his soul. What were the odds? To hell with caution. He started to open his arms, invite her into his lap, when the plane beeped a warning. Lars turned his attention to the instruments, made a minor course correction, and got up to shut the cockpit door, which was what had spurred the alarm. Overwhelmed by her revelation, he wanted to pull her against him and never let go. Instead, he forced himself to take a few steps back. It was wonderful, stupendous, amazing they shared the same magic, but he still knew next to nothing about her.

He settled for brushing the top of her head with his lips before he returned to his seat and buckled in. He motioned for her to do the same. “Maybe now you can finish telling me about your life. You left off when your family moved to Dublin.”

“So I did.” She smiled broadly. “Well then, three of us were still in school, so it kept us busy. The older three stayed in Drogheda, at least for a while. None of them are there now. Mum developed quite a reputation as a virtuoso. Da’s jewelry business flourished, but no matter how well things went, our life always felt tentative. Like a house of cards that could collapse at any moment if our secret became known.”

Lars nodded sympathetically. He understood exactly what she meant. It was one of many reasons he’d remained a confirmed loner. He gestured for her to keep talking.

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