Scandalous Shifters Paranormal Box Set by Mia Taylor

Author:Mia Taylor
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-04-07T22:00:00+00:00

Epilogue

She leaned into the wicker basket, pulling out a crisp, white sheet against the darkening summer sky, and bit on her lower lip as she peered into the heavens.

This sucks, Teresa thought grumpily, eyeing the clouds with contempt. I just spent an hour washing these and now I’m going to have to redo everything.

Indeed, she had hunched over the rocks at the Stagno Feraxi, doing the wash over the water like she was some turn-of-the-century pioneer woman.

And now it was going to rain. After all that.

But this is my life now, she mused with both happiness and concern. Salt of the earth, living quietly and not rousing attention by making flashy purchases in the small village where the people still gathered in the square to drink coffee and gossip about their neighbors.

“You look like you’re struggling,” Luca laughed, stepping from the back of their villa, his eyes sparkling with amusement. “Let me help you.”

“What’s the point?” she grumbled. “It’s going to rain!”

She gestured up at the sky in exasperation. To her annoyance, Luca’s smile widened and he grabbed the sheet from her hands, lowering it back into the basket, shaking his head.

“So then you’ll wash them again tomorrow,” he replied. “I might even help you. What else do we have to do?”

The question irritated her and Teresa scoffed and scowled, folding her arms across her chest.

“Easy for you to say,” she snapped. “You didn’t spend the entire morning slaving over the laundry. Do you have any idea how much work this is? Lugging it to the river, scrubbing all—”

To her increasing anger, he burst into laughter and reached toward her to pull her into an embrace, but she slapped him away which only made him howl louder.

“What is so funny?” she demanded.

It took him a few seconds to compose himself as she stood fuming, waiting for a reasonable explanation for why he was mocking her.

He doesn’t understand what I do to make our lives pleasant, she thought furiously, parting her mouth to give him another blast, but he held up his hand, his face creased in glee.

“Look at you!” he gasped, dabbing the corners of his eyes. “Just look.”

Teresa froze and waited for him to elaborate.

This better be good before I whip something at his head, she thought, looking around for something hard and impactful. The first drops of water began to fall from the sky but she was too busy glaring at him to notice as the warm, southern Italian rain fell upon them.

“What?” she demanded. “What about me?”

Gently but firmly, Luca yanked her closely.

“First of all,” he murmured into her ear, “you’re yelling at me in Italian.”

His hands snaked down along her body and pulled her close so she could feel the curve of his hips against hers.

“So what? We’re in Italy,” she snapped back but there was less irritation in her voice as she began to understand his point. She hadn’t even realized that she was speaking in her second language. It had come naturally.

“Secondly,” he continued, dropping a sweet kiss on her mouth, “you’re dressed like a peasant woman.

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