One True Mate: Shifter's Solace (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Georgette St. Clair

Author:Georgette St. Clair [St. Clair, Georgette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-10-07T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

She’d thought it would feel nice to be out of the firehouse, walking around among normal people whose lives weren’t full of weirdness like demons and pyromaniac spiders and were-bears – oops, bearen.

Actually, though, she was just scared. As they passed people on the street, she kept wondering whether she was really surrounded by ordinary people going about their everyday lives, or whether they were part of this weird, fucked-up, magical world she’d found herself in.

Rory was holding her hand. She’d protested, but not too hard. It was nice to feel his strong fingers wrapped around hers.

A man walked towards them on the other side of the street, long dark hair and fierce slashes of eyebrows, wearing a bright orange T-shirt that boasted the slogan “UnBEARable”. He sauntered past trailing cigar smoke, and Ivy instinctively pressed closer to Rory’s side.

There had been no question of her leaving the firehouse without Rory accompanying her. “Forty-eight percent of accidents happen outside the home!” he’d insisted, and she’d rolled her eyes and grumbled but been secretly touched by his protectiveness…even if she knew she couldn’t really trust him. That vision nagged at her. She felt so safe with him, and she wanted him so badly. How could her instincts be so wrong and so right at the same time?

A flutter of arousal started in her belly, and she shut it down fast in case he could pick up on it.

Her boss at the diner, Jim, had not been happy that she wouldn’t be working for the next few days. He was a bad-tempered, simian-looking man who made up for overcharging his customers by short-changing them.

“Family emergency? You don’t got no family.” He’d glowered at Rory, who’d insisted on going inside with her. “Don’t got not friends, either, far as I know,” he’d added nastily.

All of a sudden, she didn’t know why she hadn’t looked for a different job. Okay, she wasn’t qualified for much, but surely she could at least find work among kind, decent people.

Like Rory and the guys at the firehouse, a little voice whispered inside her, but she squashed it, hard.

You can’t trust them, she reminded herself. They’re not even really people, or not human beings anyway.

Still a lot nicer than Jim, the inner voice countered.

“It should be along this road,” she said out loud to Rory. Her last errand was to get in touch with the property agent from her mom’s shop, and a phone call had gone unanswered.

But when they got to the address on the business card, it was a dry cleaners.

“Weird.” Ivy looked from the business card to the shop front and back again, but they were definitely in the right place. Except they were definitely in the wrong place.

“Maybe it’s one of those set-ups where several businesses share one business address?” she said. “Like in New York, where you get seventeen teeny-tiny lawyers working in one PO Box?”

Rory scrunched his nose in thought. “Doubtful,” he said. “It’s not like space is at a premium in Serenity.

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