The Bear Shifter’s Game by Martha Woods

Author:Martha Woods [Woods, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

“Hey Rach?” Jamie called, knocking on her door and tapping his foot, “You mind if I come in? Or do you want to go grab lunch somewhere?”

“Hold on!” She called, a few moments passing with assorted levels of crashing from behind the door before she pulled it open, standing with her bag ready and her hair pulled back into a loose ponytail. “Alright, let’s get going. You wanna go anywhere special?”

“As long as I can get a sandwich and a drink I think I’m good…” Jamie took her bag, hoisting it over his shoulder and walking down the hallway at her side, smiling and nodding at each of the students that he met on the way, each of them recognizing him either from the race or from the video. It was… strange to see so many people aware of who he was, after such a long time of trying to fade away into the background, but he couldn’t say that it was completely unpleasant, just the opposite in fact. When he looked into their eyes, looked at their smiles, he didn’t see teasing or jeers like he’d been expecting for so long, he saw… friendliness, openness, almost admiration as they looked him up and down and then glanced over at Rachel. It was very odd to think, but for a moment he thought that this was what the cool kids felt like when they walked down the hallways too.

“You’re grinning like such a dork,” Rachel snorted, “You look like you won the lottery.”

“I’m just happy!” He laughed, “I can’t be happy?”

“I never said that. It’s just… strange, seeing you being so open now. It’s nice.” She smiled, pausing for a moment before she reached down, taking his hand in hers. “Do you mind if I do this?”

He almost froze up at the contact, after everything that had been over the last few days, the feelings that he’d become so suddenly aware of almost out of nowhere, yet out of a logical conclusion, feeling so close to her was… a bit much. But he couldn’t say that in a bad way, more that it just wasn’t what he’d been expecting, the same too much that you felt plunging into a hot bath before your body adjusted, skin feeling like it was going to melt before a few seconds passed by and you were fine.

“It’s fine,” He said, cursing the tiny crack in his voice that she immediately smirked at, “Are you sure it’s fine?”

“I grabbed your hand first didn’t I?” She said, “Besides, it makes me look less bitchy while you carry my bag.”

“Ah, I see,” He drawled, “You’re just using me for my cargo capacity, I wish that I could say that I was surprised. Got to say, I thought that I could expect better from you.”

Shoving him out the front door and waving down a taxi, Rachel bundled herself inside and pulled him right in alongside her, directing the driver to a cafe near the beach, more than likely to be less populated in the cold months.

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