Mount Bell by Marteeka Karland

Author:Marteeka Karland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIN 010522-03419
Publisher: Changeling Press LLC
Published: 2022-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Drake watched Hazel disappear into the bathroom. Though he had had his share of lovers, he had never shared his life with anyone. The fact that he was a werewolf prevented that. He was more than willing to change his life for Hazel, but he really did hope she wouldn’t start taking over all his personal things, like using his razor to shave her legs or whatever.

Okay, so she could shave whatever with whatever she wanted to, but that wasn’t really what he needed to think about right now.

Picking up the phone, he punched in Jake’s number. He needed his partner’s help.

“You’re supposed to be in court, Drake. Where the hell are you?”

Drake winced. Shit. He knew he was forgetting something. “I had a little trouble last night, Jake.”

“Yeah, well, I managed to talk Judge Bishop out of a contempt charge. You owe me. Big time.”

“I know. Just like always, I guess.”

The chuckle from the other end of the line let Drake know that his friend was glad, as always, to be able to help out. He just liked to pretend otherwise. “You remember Hazel Montgomery?”

“The friend of Irene’s who claims she’s a witch?”

“The very one. Only, she is a witch. And she turned Ralph into a toad.”

There was silence on the line before Jake burst out laughing. “‘Bout damned time. That man’s had it coming for years.”

“Yeah, but he had Hazel under arrest and I helped her escape. Twice.”

“Why was she under arrest?”

Drake filled Jake in on the previous evening’s activities, to which Jake had another good laugh.

“You’re right, my friend. Ralph doesn’t have a leg to stand on, but it’s always better to be safe. I’ll square things with Judge Bishop. He never liked Ralph anyway.” There was a pause. “What are you going to do about Ralph? Those of us who understand won’t be the least worried about it, but there are still people in Mount Bell, including my wife, who don’t realize there really are things that go ‘bump’ in the night.”

Drake chuckled a little, himself. “Let the Witches’ Coven deal with him. If anyone can straighten him out, they can.”

“And Hazel?” Jake’s softly stated question rang in Drake’s ears. What was he going to do with Hazel?

“I’ll think of something.”

“I just bet you will.”

* * *

Once out of the shower, Hazel was loath to put Drake’s borrowed shirt back on. Yes, it was Drake’s, but at the moment, it smelled like Ralph. An image of him standing there in that ridiculous get-up flashed through her mind and she giggled.

Not finding a robe or extra shirt in the bathroom, Hazel wrapped a towel around herself and peeked out the bathroom door. She wasn’t sure why she was shy now -- he’d seen her naked before -- but it seemed different somehow. Okay, so maybe “different” wasn’t the right word. But she just knew something was about to happen between them sexually that would cross the boundary between a casual sexual relationship and something a lot more meaningful.

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