Shadow Wolf (Wolf of My Heart Book 7) by Linda Palmer

Author:Linda Palmer [Palmer, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pararomya
Published: 2016-11-18T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Lily

I propped my elbows on the bar and hid my face in my hands, trying to focus on one single thing instead of every freakin' thing. I couldn't. It was all just so…impossible.

How could werewolves live their lives without normal people knowing it? They couldn't, that's how. So a lot of people were keeping a very big secret, and the more who did, the better the chance of someone spilling the beans. I could see the headline now: My Daughter Dated a Werewolf!

Suspecting I'd actually already seen those words at one time or another on a tabloid at the grocery store, I acknowledged the critical difference between knowing and believing. Did I know? Yes. More than I should according to Cade. Did I believe? I was still struggling with that, but my resistance to the truth didn't alter it. Whether I wanted it to or not, my whole world had changed.

Suddenly I wished I was home with my folks again, taking down the Christmas tree, packing up lights and ornaments, burning the wadded wrapping paper in the chimenea out back to watch the bright colors flame. Dad always had answers for the difficult questions, and if he didn't, he pointed me in the right direction.

"Lily?" Cade was back and giving me a worried look. "Do you need something to drink? I should get you something to drink."

I saw that he'd found some gray sweats and a faded St. Louis Cardinals tee. His wet hair and the smell of herbal shampoo meant he'd showered. I couldn't imagine how unless there was also a bathroom upstairs. I mean, I surely hadn't been sitting in total oblivion that long.

"I had bottled water. I threw it at the…the…." Ramifications slammed me, one of those domino moments when one shocking realization truly hits home and then crashes into another. Overwhelmed again, I blurted the first thought lucid enough to verbalize. "Why did those werewolves attack like that? They don't even know me."

"They weren't attacking. It was more like…um…bullying you to get a rise out of me." He was checking out the fridge and cabinets. "And we call ourselves Weres." He slowly turned to face me. "You realize there are other things out there besides us, right?"

More dominoes. These, the ones I'd dreaded most. Suddenly my eyes filled and spilled over. I broke into great, gulping sobs. Cade shot around the edge of the bar and tried to hug me. I wouldn't let him. The solid ground that was my life had somehow turned into shifting sands. And while I wasn't normally a cry baby, there'd been nothing normal about tonight.

It took a while, but I pulled it together.

That's when Cade, who'd been hovering, spoke again. "I'm so freakin' sorry this happened. I never meant to drag you into my life. In fact, I tried very hard not to."

"I remember."

"So how in the hell did we end up here?"

"Do you believe in fate?"

"Yeah, sure. I can look back on my life and see the why of everything that's happened except my father abandoning my mom.

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