Sophie's First Shift: There’s No Turning Back (Shifters Take Manhattan Book 1) by A.M. Sommers

Author:A.M. Sommers [Sommers, A.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-02T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

After leaving Isabelle, she starts to head home to Will, but then gets hit by an intense desire to go to her real home, the house where she grew up. She wants her mommy and daddy. And her sister. In case things don’t … work out, she wants to see and be held by all of them one more time. She wants to say good-by and maybe sneak in an I love you or two.

As she walks to the Lex subway, she texts Will to clue him in on the “conference,” so he’ll have absorbed the news by the time she gets home.

It’s half after six, so rush hour is almost over but the train is still crowded. At first, she needs to stand, but plops into a seat after one stop when a girl, a Catholic school student by the look of her uniform, jumps up and scurries toward the closing door. She leans back, centers her heavy backpack on her lap and looks around. Nobody looks particularly interesting or out of the ordinary until she sees a handsome ivy-league looking guy in a luxurious camel hair overcoat slowly inching towards her. Although he looks gorgeous and upstanding, her intuition tells her to look away, so she averts her eyes until the next stop. When she looks up again, he is standing only a few feet away. Their eyes meet and he shoots her a sly, knowing look. When he smiles at her, his canine teeth grow longer, pointier. They gleam. He’s a shifter in his human form. When he winks at her, her ability to breathe disappears.

Why can’t she attract normal human dirtbags like other women?

The train approaches Union Square, her stop. As soon as the train enters the station her adrenaline kicks in, enabling her to move like a linebacker past all passengers between her seat and the door. When the train wheezes to a stop, the doors remain closed. Her heart pounds wildly. Come on. Come on. When the doors finally open, she hits the platform running, pushing past the slower moving passengers at full speed to and up the nearest staircase. Once out on the street, she can’t breathe a sigh of relief because she’s too busy gasping for air. God, her backpack weighs a ton.

The sidewalks around Union Square are packed and grid-locked so she turns west off University onto 12th Street, a tree-lined, primarily residential street that is rarely crowded. Especially when it’s fifteen degrees and dark. She’s halfway to Fifth Avenue when she hears heavy footsteps coming on fast. Too fast. Not again, she thinks, not again. Suddenly, she’s pressed up against a spiked iron fence that protects an impressive town house’s postage-stamp yard.

The shifter in human form has her pinned, his hands hold spikes on both sides of her body. “Why did you look at me like that on the train if you didn’t want to connect?” He sounds self-righteous, not angry or evil. “I’m confused. You were giving off your scent.

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