The Old-Fashioned Alpha by K.S. Martin

Author:K.S. Martin [Martin, K.S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-07-31T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 9

“Well, well. Lookie here,” Jess’s mom said from the bedroom doorway.

He must’ve been in a deep sleep not to hear her come in, James thought.

“You must be James.”

“Yes, ma’am.” He sat up and reached his hand out for her to shake. She shifted the tray she held to one hand and shook his with the other.

“Good morning, Mom. Yes, this is James.” Jess stretched.

“He’s tracked you down all the way from Virginia. I’d say that’s worth thinking about, young lady. Not many men would bother.” That was her mother’s way of giving approval. She thought that a man should bend over backward to please her, as Jess’s father had. Coming all the way to Florida was bending over backward, as far as her mother was concerned. Her mom smiled and put her breakfast tray on the dresser. “I guess I will need another tray. Sit tight.”

“No, Mom, it’s okay. We’ll share.” Jess threw the covers back.

“Jess, if he hasn’t told you, that boy is a werewolf. He’s going to need a lot more to eat.”

James and Jess gasped at once.

“Oh sorry, was that the big secret? Here’s another, Tim is a bear shifter.”

That’s what I scented, bear, James thought.

“He has several friends that are werewolves and one that is a jaguar. I’ve learned to tell them apart by their smells, and you smell like Cooley. Any relation?”

James shook his head.

“I wish I could introduce you, but they are all on a fishing boat in the Gulf of Mexico.” She winked at James and turned to go. “And Jess, your father was a werewolf, so it’s no big shock that you went for one or that one came after you either,” she called as she went out the side door.

James and Jess looked at each other with shocked faces.

“Your dad? That’s why your scent drives me wild. You’re part she-wolf.”

“I’m no such thing. I don’t even have hairy legs.”

James laughed at that as she jogged out after her mother. He grabbed the breakfast tray and snagged a piece of bacon, then followed her to the house.

***

“Mom!” Jess called across the yard as her mother smiled over her shoulder, going into the kitchen. “Mother.” Jess hurried. “What did you mean that my father was a werewolf? Don’t you think that you should’ve mentioned that sooner? You don’t drop a bomb like that and run off,” Jess huffed with her hands on her hips, staring her mother down across the kitchen.

James grinned at her bare legs and breasts that heaved nicely under the T-shirt. He couldn’t wait to get her out of her clothes and into their mated bed.

“You never transitioned,” she said at Jess’s look. “If you had, I would’ve told you. Your father was a handsome devil but not the brightest of the lot. He told me that since you children were only Halflings that it would never happen. Tim says it could happen, that a child with mixed parents could shift. He’s seen it. It would depend on how dominant the genes of the parents are.

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