My Furry Valentine by Karen Ranney

Author:Karen Ranney [Ranney, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Karen Ranney LLC

Chapter Twenty-One

Well, that was a hell of a way to wake up

I wish I could say that I slept like a baby with Mark in the house. The fact was, my night — or what was left of it — was miserable. I kept having these mini-nightmares.

I saw a Furry with fangs being staked in the sun, screaming as she transformed to her wolf self and then disappeared beneath the flames. Another dream had me being crowned Queen of the Boyds. I had a vampire as my lackey and was fussing at him because he couldn't attend me at noon.

“But, your Majesty, I am but a lowly vampire and cannot be abroad at noon lest I fry.”

I waved my scepter at him, conking him on the head. "You think that’s a good enough reason for not showing loyalty to your liege? Off with your head!”

That's how it went the whole night. I woke once because I heard a voice. I smiled when I realized it was Mark talking to one of the dogs.

“No, you can’t share the bed with me. Get down.”

I'll bet it was Pepper, but before I could figure out which one it was, I’d fallen asleep again.

I woke at seven, which was later than normal, half expecting that Mark would be gone.

He wasn't. Instead, he was in the kitchen with the Brood, talking to them as if they were long lost friends or fraternity brothers with the exception of Cherry Pip — the only female in the bunch. She was now leaning against his leg looking up at him adoringly.

Mark must smell like bacon.

He saw me in the doorway, looked up and smiled.

"I'm moving in," he said.

Well, that was a hell of a way to wake up.

“What?"

I moved in the direction of the Keurig, halfway by touch. I'm the first person to tell you that I need a little while to wake up. And then a little coffee. Right now I was pretty close to being all the way alert, given what Mark had just said, but in all honesty I didn’t know how to respond to it.

"Whatever will Danielle say?” I said. "You didn't mean with her, right?" I couldn’t imagine anything worse. “By the way, does she know about the whole vampire thing?”

"A little," he said.

I rolled my eyes and didn't care if he saw.

"In other words, you haven't told her anything. Or you patted her on the head and told her that she didn't have to worry about anything. You would take care of all of it. Have I got that right?”

"No," he said, still smiling at me. "You don't have it right. I told her about the whole thing, including the danger. What she doesn’t know is that I suspect that vampires are experimenting, not only on other paranormal beings, but on humans.”

I greeted the Brood, scratched heads, made maternal sounds, anything but respond to this new information that he hadn’t shared last night.

“So, she won’t be moving in?” I asked. I finally straightened, made myself a cup of coffee and went to join him at the table.

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