The Coyote's Comfort by Holley Trent

Author:Holley Trent [Trent, Holley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: f/f, lesbian romance, holiday romance, second chance romance, coyote shifter, shapeshifter romance
Publisher: Holley Trent
Published: 2018-11-09T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

“Well?”

Lanie brought her cup of hot chocolate to her lips and took a cautious sip. She’d meandered over to the town square to kill some time and plan her next moves, and Blue had quickly spotted her. He’d cut a path across the square with a very pregnant woman in tow.

The woman nudged him with her elbow and whispered, “You should say hello first.”

Blue sighed and let go of the woman’s hand long enough to rub his eyes. “Sorry. Right, right. Manners. Willa, this is the notorious Elaine, AKA Lanie, AKA She Whom Someone We Know Pretends Doesn’t Exist.”

Willa’s hand flew to cover her mouth and she giggled.

“Pleased to finally meet you,” Lanie told her. Willa was the first demigoddess Lanie had ever met. Lanie had a ton of questions she wanted to ask, but knew she’d have to indulge her curiosity at some other time and in a less public place.

Lanie pressed down the sip cover on her cocoa cup lid and gave Blue a speculative look. “She’s…uncooperative.”

“What’s her excuse this time?”

“Same as before, though with a less strenuous delivery and more embellishments. I don’t know what it’s going to take to get her to tell me the truth.”

“How do you know she’s not being honest?” Willa asked. “I know Blue can usually tell when Diana’s lying, but that’s due more to Coyote magic than observational skills.”

“I don’t need magic,” Lanie said. “I’ve got logic. Usually, when things don’t make good sense, there’s a practical reason.”

“Oh, good. Blue, you’re here,” came a husky feminine voice from several yards away. A woman in wire-rimmed glasses and a lilac tracksuit waved at him.

“Don’t make eye contact,” Blue warned in a whispered rush. “She’ll put you to work.”

“Yoo-hoo!” the lady called.

“Blue,” Willa murmured through unmoving lips. “You’re not invisible.”

Obviously not, because the lady bounded over and fixed her narrowed gaze on the Coyote. “Stop ignoring me. I need you to climb a ladder. None of the other committee members will do it. Delia shattered her hip last year, Christine’s depth perception is shot all to hell, and I’ve got vertigo.” She thrust a wreath at him. “Go on and hang that. You won’t break.”

Blue snorted. “No, but maybe I just don’t want to.”

“Afraid being a little bit jolly will sully your bad boy reputation?”

Blue’s silence was telling.

Lanie pressed her lips together tightly to keep her laughter from tumbling out.

Willa seemed to be having a similar dysfunction. She’d turned her back to the confrontation and her shoulders were trembling with the telltale sign of repressed giggles.

“You won’t be any less of an alpha if you’re caught holding some garland,” the lady said.

“You think you’re slick,” he said. “You handed me a wreath. I’ll hang your damn wreath, but the garland can hang itself.”

The lady pushed her glasses up her nose and blinked at him.

“Come on, I don’t have time.” Blue’s tone was practically a whine—an odd sound coming from a man who was over forty. The fact that he’d so quickly reverted to that state told Lanie everything she needed to know.

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