Southern Shifters: Inked By The Bear (Kindle Worlds Novella) (Black & White Series Book 2) by Lissa Matthews

Author:Lissa Matthews [Matthews, Lissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2015-09-16T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Gus sighed.

Bex left the porch and walked toward downtown with his Aunt Mary. For all intents and purposes she was his aunt and just as she had with Gus all those years ago, she wanted to know everything about Bex. Gus couldn’t blame her. He wanted to know everything about Bex, too.

He wasn’t sure Bex wanted to know any of them. Not anymore. Including him. But he couldn’t dwell on that right then. He had to trust that she was all in with him, the way he was all in with her. He had to trust that even with all the recent revelations, that how she felt, or was beginning to feel about him hadn’t changed.

He turned his attention back to his father and his brother, and the wolf who had been pacing the porch for a few minutes after his latest bomb drop.

The wolf was antsy. Gus understood.

Everything, the whole world seemed to be splintering apart around him and Bex, though Bex had to be feeling it more than he was. Everything she knew about herself had been called into question in the last twenty-four hours.

Shit. If he thought about, it had all been called into question ever since Gus walked up to her back in North Carolina, really.

“Son?” Martin addressed him, laying a hand on Gus’s shoulder. “She’ll be all right.”

“Will she? I wish I had that much faith. She’s strong, but I don’t know anyone strong enough to handle all this.”

“You should look in a mirror sometime, then.”

“That was different. I was a kid. I don’t even remember them.”

“And she never knew her father.”

“But finding out she’s a shifter? How does an adult cope with that?”

“She’s got you to help her.”

That was true and unless she told him to, he wasn’t leaving. “So,” he said, fixing Luke with an unblinking stare, “who do you think is behind the poaching? The father?”

Luke gave a casual shrug. “They never found the fiancé.” His tone was conversational, but Gus knew better than to take it at face value. Not to mention the heaping helping of implication in Luke’s statement.

“How do you know?”

“Because along with the humans searching for the man, there were shifters looking for the wolf and the bear. They heard the stories about the man who disappeared into the woods and never came back. Stories about the man who was dragged into the woods by a bear of a man.”

Gus thought back to one of the first real conversations he’d had with Bex, the one where he’d learned how she’d been conceived and what she’d told him about the mayor. “And you think think it’s his father? Beck. That was his name. Beck was her mom’s fiancé.”

Luke gave a short nod. “That’s my suspicion, yes. As I’ve gathered information over the years, talked to the wolves who were involved in the search, that’s the conclusion I’ve come to. Because the bear wasn’t from around our parts, I never was able to investigate, or even make inquiries. No one knew much about bear shifters, or nothing they were willing to part with.

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