Shapeshifter Romance: Duty of a Lion (Paranormal Army Hero Navy Seal Shifter Protector Alpha Lion Romance) (Fantasy Military Action Adventure Urban Wolf Romance Short Stories) by J.K. Hudson

Author:J.K. Hudson [Hudson, J.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paranormal Shifter Romance Novels
Published: 2016-01-14T05:00:00+00:00

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Bonus Story 5 of 10

Can’t Go Back

Here’s what you most need to know most about Alexandria Bill: She hated New York City.

While most people were trying to get into New York, she was trying to get out. She’d grown up there, in the borough of Brooklyn, and had come to resent the concrete jungle, the towering peaks of buildings along the horizon, the rats that came out at night and scurried along the garbage bags stacked up on the curb. She’d been trapped in a maze of sidewalks her whole life, but what she really yearned for were trees. Trees and grass and little creeks that made their way through meandering woods.

Ever since she was a young girl, she’d been collecting pictures of this other world she coveted. Her favorite section of the New York Times was the Sunday travel section and she’d cut out her favorite pictures of green paradises from all over Europe and the United States. By the time she was ten, she’d selected Bavaria in Germany and Yellowstone National Park as the two top spots on her wish list.

To her father, there was no other place beyond New York. He came from a long line of people who had spent their whole lives there, who had worked and breathed and lived and died in New York and it was unimaginable to them that anyone would want to live anywhere else. To the Bill family, the city was the epicenter of the Universe and they knew its history and its neighborhoods and its nooks and crannies like the rest of the New Yorkers who believed the city belonged to them.

She had lived her whole life at 17 Quackenbush Avenue in Brooklyn, three doors down from her grandparents and two streets west of her cousins. Her mother had left when Alex was two and her father had raised her alone. His parents had bought them the house on Quackenbush and they’d become a tight family, sharing Sunday dinners, existing between the family homes spread out in the old Brooklyn neighborhood. Her grandparents regarded raising a family as a communal process, something that was the responsibility of everyone that shared their DNA.

The only person who knew her secret dreams was her grandfather. He’d taken her upstate twice when she was growing up----once to a state park that had a giant waterfall accessed by a long, winding trail and another time they’d stayed overnight in the hills of the Catskill Mountains. She’d looked at the ancient woods as a city all in itself, with its own towering structures and its own sounds, but it was a place of peace. She hadn’t missed the noise of the never-ending traffic and the bustle of people moving when she was in the woods, but had instead reveled in the solitude of the place. The silence seemed to be a sound all in itself.

Her father had been a doorman for most of his adult life. The posh West Side apartment where he worked was a little world unto itself and he knew everything about the people who lived there.

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