Mated: A Paranormal Romance Shifter Anthology by Kerry Adrienne Sionna Fox Shari Mikels

Author:Kerry Adrienne, Sionna Fox, Shari Mikels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Callie was quiet for the rest of the day. There was something final about her silence, like up at the falls was a last hurrah before she pulled away for good. Sam let her be. He didn’t sense panic or restlessness in her, only a resigned stillness. She’d said they should make the best of it while it lasted, but he’d thought it would last for more than a day. Being near her was making him itch with the need to touch her, hold her, fix the fucked-up situation he’d gotten her into.

She was tucked into a corner of the bed with a warped and battered paperback that had been in the cabin for God only knew how long when his father appeared out of the forest again. Sam had heard him coming, his senses on high alert for any intrusions into their space, but Callie startled bolt-upright when his boots hit the porch. Sam fought the urge to rub her back until her heart settled.

His father opened the door. “Sam, outside please.”

Callie wrapped her arms around her knees and curled into a ball on the creaky bed. Sam couldn’t leave her. He wanted to be out of earshot, but the thought of leaving her with no protection made panic spiral in his gut. He looked at her, and she eyed him suspiciously, no doubt hearing his racing heart.

His father sighed. “Fine, you can both hear this. Dunphy’s calling an emergency session. You’re to report for a hearing on Sunday.”

“What? How did he get enough members on that kind of notice?”

“We’ll worry about Dunphy’s friends in high places when this is over. Right now, he’s gotten half the council to believe you attacked Callie without provocation.”

Sam’s blood froze. This was so much worse than intervening in a human emergency. They’d put him on a steady diet of tranquilizers and constant supervision for the rest of his life for an unprovoked attack. His father would lose his place on the council, his brother or one of his cousins would have to take leadership of their clan. “No. No. Dad, I didn’t. She was dying.”

His father’s temper cracked. “Christ, Sam. You’re my son. This is a power play. Callie was nothing but a pawn.”

Callie whined from her place in the corner. Without thinking, Sam went to her and pulled her into his shoulder. “What do we do? Bren was there, he saw the shape she was in, even if he didn’t see her get hit.”

“I know. Did anyone aside from you and Brennan see her in the street, or see you bring her back to the house?”

“I only know Bren was there in the road. I—I did it under the trees at the school. There were only a couple of people left when we brought her back. I took her through the front door so no one would see her. Bren told people she tripped and passed out.”

“Why didn’t you tell anyone else what happened?”

“There were other people there, humans.

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