Somebunny to Love (Virtue Shifters Book 7) by Zoe Chant

Author:Zoe Chant [Chant, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-06T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Emmy’s rabbit shrieked, We’re going to DIIIIIEEEEEEE again, and from the way Emmy’s pulse rocketed, she kind of felt the rabbit might be right. Except of course that was nonsense. Crossing the town border would absolutely not kill her. At least, not in the lightning striking her down or something like that sense. Possibly she would anxiety-attack her way right into dying, but it wouldn’t be like a vampire going into a church and immolating or anything.

Her hand had gone very cold in Karl’s. She stood there staring at the little gate like it might come to life and bite her. Her stomach was churning, and tremors of genuine fear ran over her skin until she was actually shivering. Karl, very gently, said, “You absolutely don’t have to,” and Emmy looked up at him.

His ocean-blue gaze was steady, filled with both encouragement and concern. “It’s really easy to avoid boundaries if you’re in a car,” he said quietly. “You just don’t go that direction, or that far. I know I was taking a real chance, not telling you why I wanted to come out here with you, but I didn’t think you’d come with me if you knew what I was going to bring you.”

“I wouldn’t have.” The spring sunshine was so warm, but flashes of hot and cold were wrecking Emmy’s ability to enjoy it. Her rabbit was straining to shift and run the other direction, far away from the town border. Emmy looked back at the gate, which was identical to the one they'd entered through at the other end of the pasture.

Karl was wrong. She’d probably have to take five or six steps to actually cross the border, into the gate, around its lip—which would be a bit of a squeeze, for a girl her size—and out the other side, onto land that didn’t belong to her home town.

She couldn’t tell if it was terror or exhilaration pounding through her. Maybe both. Both seemed possible. Even likely. Her chest hurt, she was so scared. All the passionate heat from earlier had disappeared, although not in a forever way. Just in a right now way. “You could have…”

Karl gave her a long time to finish the sentence, and when she didn’t, murmured, “I could have what?” encouragingly.

Emmy swallowed and looked up at him. “You could have taken me through the gate and not told me until we were on the other side.”

Absolute horror flooded his gorgeous features. “No. No way. I mean, yeah, I guess I could have, but that would have been an incredibly dick move. This is your boundary, Emmy, both literally and figuratively. I’m not gonna trick you into crossing it. I’m not that kind of asshole. I wanted to give you a choice. A chance. If you wanted it. If you don’t, if I went too far already, I’m really sorry and I’ll spend the rest of my life making it up to you, but sometimes it’s easier to do something with a little encouragement.

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