One Night With the Shifter by Meyers Theresa

Author:Meyers, Theresa [Meyers, Theresa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Paranormal, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373885909
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-02-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Jess didn’t mince words. Family was everything and the look on Ty’s face told her he wasn’t joking. Riley was in trouble. She bustled into the school office, talked with her principal about her family emergency and arranged for a substitute.

“How do you know something’s wrong with Riley?” she demanded as they climbed into Ty’s truck and rumbled out of the school parking lot. It had all happened so fast. Him swooping in and whisking her away in front of God and Mrs. Mayberry. Heart racing from Ty’s dashing entrance into her classroom, his nearness and worry for her brother, Jess wiped her damp palms down the leg of her slacks.

“Told you, gut feeling.”

“Do you have any other powers besides ESP?”

He gripped the steering wheel a little tighter, his jaw jumping. “Look, there are things I’d like to tell you about how I know things, how I can tell what’s going to happen, but you’re going to have to just trust me.”

His words were said with such conviction that Jess believed him. “Why?”

“Because as big and numerous as your brothers are, they’ve never had to deal with the kind of stuff I see every day. And your little brother is right in the thick of it.”

A chill that prickled her skin into goose bumps caused her to zip up her hoodie a little higher. “Is this some super-secret military thing?”

“You think I’d tell you even if it were?”

Jess eyed him speculatively and settled back into the bench seat as they headed out of town. “I suppose not.” They slowed to a crawl through the one street that constituted downtown Sinclair. Half the time Jess thought the only reason they kept the speed limit at twenty miles an hour was just to force people to slow down and take a look. Mostly antique shops, a bakery, a bead shop, a florist, a candy shop, a restaurant and a hair salon, downtown Sinclair hung close to the water’s edge. Main Street paralleled the bends of the shore. Even though it wasn’t even the holidays yet, merchants were already putting up twinkle lights along the edges of their signs and awnings. City workers were up on ladders putting lights into the small trees along either side of the street.

“Open the glove box, would you?”

Jess did and was stunned by the heavy-looking black handgun and ammunition nestled there. “What’s that doing in there?”

“Couldn’t bring it into the school,” he said matter-of-factly.

Jess stared at him. “You carry a gun?”

Ty nodded. “Know how to load it?”

Jess nodded. She didn’t know the specifics, but she’d seen Davis do it enough times as he cleaned his guns at home; it couldn’t be that difficult, could it?

She tried to flip the gun to the side, hoping the chamber the bullets slipped into would fling open.

“What are you doing?”

“Trying to open the chamber to put the bullet in it.”

Ty frowned. “You have no clue, do you?”

“Not a lot of call to load a gun in the sixth-grade classroom,” she shot back.

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