Shadows & Light: A Steamy Monster Romance Novella (Cambric Creek After Darkverse Book 2) by Nascosta C.M

Author:Nascosta, C.M.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Meduas Editoriale
Published: 2024-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

The man was following her.

It was a brilliantly sunny afternoon, and she decided to see what the walk was like from the library back to the club. When she noticed the man walking behind her, Jude paid attention, but thought nothing of it at first. She slowed at one point, stepping aside as she readjusted her book sack on her shoulder, giving him plenty of room to pass her necessary, when she noticed he slowed as well. When she quickened her step, he matched pace. A swift glance over her shoulder showed the man still there, staring at her intently, and behind him in the road, the approaching bus. Jude raised her hand without thinking twice, flagging the bus down.

“I’m so sorry,” she exclaimed laughingly to the familiar driver. “I got a bit hung up at the checkout desk and I didn’t want to miss my stop!”

When the man got on the bus behind her, her breath caught in her throat.

Wake up, she hissed to her inner wolf. Wake up, wake up, wake up!

It was no use. Her wolf remained unaroused, as she had been her entire life. She made a point of taking a seat beside a young woman wearing a school uniform, too engrossed in her cell phone conversation to pay her any mind. When the young woman rose from her seat, stepping over Jude once her stop was reached, she found herself unable to move. A viselike arm tightened around her waist, keeping her pressed to her seat.

“Stay right where you are, princess.” His voice was a hiss at her ear, caressing the shell with a whisper-like pressure, and her whole body quivered in response.

It had been two weeks since the incident. Two weeks since her heat, since Vin had shown up, and she’d made a valiant effort to avoid the club’s main room since then. All of the cooking she’d done in the previous month paid off, and her containers of frozen meals were relocated to her little apartment refrigerator, effectively cutting out her need to leave the cluster of rooms at all. She had food, she had books, and she had no need for him and her humiliation.

She could turn on a dime, make the most of whatever she had to work with, no matter how meager the working might be. She didn’t turn with the moon, Jude reminded herself, but she was still a wolf. She still had a wolf’s pride, and he had wounded it badly. Jude knew she was the only one at fault, and that she was being ridiculous for blaming him for the way the events of that day had played out, but she’d never claimed to be a good person either.

She realized he had likely been following after her all along. Ever since the first week she’d moved in, when she’d ventured to the gas station at the corner and the food market around the block; since the first time she’d taken the bus to the supercenter and the library.

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