Shifter's Destiny by Anna Leonard

Author:Anna Leonard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

The small office off the Community Hall was just large enough for a small desk and wheeled chair, four stacked file cabinets, and a table that held a coffeemaker and a pile of mugs. The two men standing before the desk had their backs to the wall—literally.

There was a long silence after they finished reporting that drew out past the socially comfortable and into the ominous. The two men did not dare shift or cough, although the one man’s arm sling was clearly paining him, and the other had a nasty bruise on the side of his face, and what looked like a burn across his mouth, as though the skin had been roughly abraded.

Ray wasn’t impressed by either injury. “You were overpowered—Stephen was killed—by two girls? Admittedly two smart and desperate girls, but really...”

The bandaged man started to speak, and glared at his companion when he tried to stop him. “I’m not going to be quiet, no. It happened and just because you got knocked out don’t mean it didn’t.”

“What happened?” Ray’s eyes narrowed, and he stared at the two men intently. “What did you leave out of your initial report?”

“Stephen didn’t get killed by the girls...and the girls didn’t do this to me.” He indicted his bandage. “It was a beast. A monster.”

“A monster.” Ray was repeating the word, not asking a question, but the two men both became defensive.

“Not a monster. They had a horse with them,” the first man said. “Same as the one they rode away on, near the woods. We told you about that.”

“It wasn’t a horse.” The bandaged man was definite on that fact.

“A big goat then.” His companion, equally stubborn, wasn’t going to admit that anything out of the ordinary had happened, even if it meant that a girl and a woman had taken him down.

“It was a beast. A monster. It looked like a horse but it wasn’t. It had horns, and its eyes were red, and they were smart. A horse has dumb eyes. This one looked right at me and there was an evil mind behind it, I swear.” The bandaged man clearly didn’t expect anyone to believe him, but he wasn’t going to back down.

“And then it did that to you?” Ray asked, his voice neither scoffing nor convinced.

“It ran me through with that horn, threw me across the room. After it broke down the door and trampled Stephen. Did you look at his body? You think anything human did that? And it wasn’t a horse, damn it. It was a...” He paused, unable to form the words his brain wanted to say, and then fell back on his earlier words. “It was a beast.”

“It broke down the door coming in, not going out? Interesting.” Ray looked away from the two men, staring instead at the wall behind them. “So it was outside, and came in to save them. She’s getting stronger. No more birds and squirrels, not even someone’s old plow horse, as I’d thought.

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