One True Mate 7: Shifter's Paradox by Lisa Ladew

Author:Lisa Ladew [Ladew, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Heat Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

22 - Past - Beastie Boy Gets Mean

Jaggar took the curve at the speed of sound and Harlan held his breath until they cleared it. “You want to ease up a bit, Beast?”

Jaggar shot him a look at the nickname.

Harlan laughed. “Come on, no one calls you that?”

Jaggar sneered but didn’t snarl. “Of course not.”

Harlan made a face and looked the other way. Trying not to smile. Jaggar was a good kid. Touchy but he had his reasons. They’d had an interesting couple of days, Jaggar being assigned to help him orient to the department while a replacement was found for Sergeant Wheeling, who had gone out on maternity leave. Harlan liked Jaggar. Jaggar wanted to like him back, he really did, and they both knew the two of them could be great friends, but for some reason, the kid kept going sandpaper on him.

Harlan hadn’t done much yet. Certainly no demon ass-whipping. He’d only gotten his uniform and weapon, qualified with his weapon, driven around the area a few times, studied the protocols, sniffed around Eventine Risson’s story a bit, just a couple questions here and there, and been issued a vehicle. He still didn’t know what his job would consist of each day, and was disappointed in the lack of demon blood-letting so far. In fact, the KSRT didn’t seem to do much at all besides bitch and bullshit until the shit hit the fan. The group needed a leader, one who wasn’t knee deep in baby poop at the moment or worrying over a comatose boy’s mental health.

Oh, and he hadn’t seen Evie since she’d confessed she recognized him as her mate, he’d practically called her an immature baby in response, and she’d dismissed him and disappeared.

He’d resolved to stay away from her, steer clear from her, knowing it was cruel if she really did recognize him as her mate, but it hadn’t mattered anyway. She’d disappeared. Which had given him a little breathing room. Made him wonder if perhaps her mark had come in, and it had not been his after all.

Harlan stared out the window, at the forest whipping past, trying to think of something else besides Evie. It was all oaks and sycamores and elms blurring by, mostly blues and greens, but the first fire colors of fall were starting to show here and there. He dug around in his mind for an olive branch to extend to Jaggar. Wait. That was a human expression that made no sense to wolven. He was going to quit using it. What would the beast want? Not an olive branch. Something meaty. A meat popsicle. No that was stupid, there were no meat popsicles. Oh no? What about a drumstick, a big old fat turkey drumstick could be a meat popsicle if you stuck it in the freezer. Ha, not so stupid after all. Or maybe twice as stupid, he didn’t know. Luckily, no one would ever hear it, because he had an excellent filter. 93% of his thoughts never made it out his mouth.

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