The Alpha's Grave Secrets: A Second Chance Paranormal Romance and Mystery (The Special Paranormal Investigative Unit (S.P.I.U.) Book 1) by Norbut Sheryl

Author:Norbut, Sheryl
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-10-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Elara

My lips still tingle from kissing Kato on the hand. This is a dangerous game that I’m playing now. The ghost of Kato’s arms wrapped around my waist still haunts me, tingling flesh teasing me as I sit here all alone.

I want him to hold me again, his scent flooding my nostrils. His strength and warmth remind me that no matter what, everything is going to be alright. That someday I will feel like myself again.

Guilt clutches my chest as I remember Ezra, home alone, stubborn, and perhaps a little stupid. He’s not perfect, I remind myself. Actually, he’s far from it.

To keep my mind off Kato, I reach for a stack of pamphlets about the SPIU, leafing through them. The SPIU office is modern. Nicer than the other parts of the FBI we passed through on the way here.

I can’t imagine how that makes some of the other agents feel about their worth to the FBI, or the worth of the new branch of the agency that was formed a decade ago.

It’s not that there isn’t a need for a paranormal investigative unit. Over a hundred years ago, once supernatural were understood to be more than the stuff of nightmares, it took time for society to move through the stages of denial to acceptance. However, in the last fifty years, there have been some major advancements for us all around.

At first, supernatural were segregated. But eventually, politicians and ordinary people alike realized that that did more harm than good, and slowly, we’ve been integrated. There used to be hospitals solely for supernatural care, but now we have rooms and specialty services within the same hospital that serves humans.

These pamphlets explain the importance of accepting our new integration and unity, the FBI’s bright new future. I throw the pamphlets aside, and they scatter to the floor. Oops.

Sighing, I hop off the bed and pick up the pamphlets, looking around this room once more. My skin prickles, and the smell of leather, rain, and home floods me once more. Kato’s back.

My spin tingles. Reaching into my bag, I slide a layer of vanilla lip mask over my chapped lips. The tender cuts in my bottom lip sting slightly but ultimately succumb to relief.

I find myself pulled towards the door without thought. Kato’s presence on the other side is magnetic. The more time I spend around him, the more I remember who I am underneath it all. After all this time fighting to change myself, I think I like that old me the best.

To be this near to him, not to see him, not to speak to him, I can’t quite explain it, but it feels like a crime. I’m twisting open the door handle before I realize what I’m doing. A goofy grin like a kid caught with their hand in the cookie jar spreads across my face when the door opens, and Kato is standing right there.

“I had a feeling you’d be up to no good,” Kato says, a half-smile on his gorgeous lips.

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