Tayme (Were Zoo Book Eight) by R.E. Butler

Author:R.E. Butler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: shifter romance, bear shifter, bear shifter romance, shifter zoo
Publisher: R.E. Butler

Chapter Seven

By the time they were headed to the employee parking lot to meet with those coming to the park, Rory was head over heels for Tayme. He was amazing from head to toe. Gorgeous, sweet, funny, caring...and the man could cook. In and out of the kitchen. Growing up in the nest, she’d been told that her only choice in life was to be a wife and mother. Female owls didn’t get to have careers. Not unless their husbands agreed to it, at any rate. She was surprised that the females were even allowed to attend the nest’s school to learn to read and write.

When she was twelve, she’d already become proficient at sewing and cooking, although she wasn’t a fan of either activity. The males her age weren’t taught to be caretakers, they were taught to be warriors and hunters. The nest status quo had been fine with her. But in the back of her mind she’d always wondered if she’d need to leave at some point. While she’d been happy to a point, her fox didn’t really want to live in the trees forever. The question she’d started asking herself as her bestie attended college – much to the dismay of nearly every owl adult – was just what the future held for her, and whether she’d ever be happy if she mated an owl.

“You look really serious right now,” Tayme said as they walked up the stairs to the employee cafeteria.

“I was just thinking about how I grew up. I wasn’t interested in rocking the boat with my life. I wasn’t one of those females who railed against every wrong. I knew the owls had screwy ideas about male and female roles, but I went along with it. Until Jess, anyway. She was kind of a catalyst for me.”

He held open the door into the cafeteria and she walked through. A few wolves were seated at a table eating, and they nodded their heads at them. “She was going along with things herself, though.”

“True.” If Jess hadn’t been shot by hunters and happened to land in the park, she’d be mated to Miles, and Rory would still be in the nest. Her fox shivered in her mind. “I hate the idea that you and I were so close but we didn’t even know each other existed.”

“Me too.” He rubbed her arms, soothing the goose bumps that had risen. “I don’t think you should beat yourself up about your upbringing. You were insulated from a lot of the outside world, sheltered to the point where what I might see as a really stifling way of life, you were taught it was normal. I think part of why you didn’t push back against your adoptive parents is because you were grateful they saved you when it’s clear they don’t have a lot of love for any other shifters but owls.”

“Good point. I wish I could trust they were really happy for us, though.”

He gave her a long look. “Does it really matter, though? I mean, you and I are soulmates.

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