The Other Reindeer: A Why Choose Holiday Shifter Rom-Com Standalone by Rebekah Margaret Doss

Author:Rebekah Margaret Doss [Doss, Rebekah Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“Tell me that I misunderstood what Hana said.” Sasha was pacing the living room of the cabin he’d taken me to.

It was a nice cabin. Bigger than mine, which made sense since it looked like the three of them were sharing the two-story open floor plan. I wasn’t even sure how far away the cabin was because Sasha was fast. It had barely felt like five minutes from when I was dashed away from Hana until he was setting me on my feet to open the door.

Thankfully, the speed hadn’t made me sick like I had thought it would. Apparently, he was kind enough not to go as fast as he could have. Which…like, how fast could he go? That probably wasn’t good for my future health. Not that that mattered as he paced the floor in front of me.

“Which part?” I bit my lip, not sure which conversation I wanted to have the least.

Sasha crossed his arms across his bulky chest, tried to purse his lips into a line, and leveled his gaze on me as the front door banged open. Maksim and Anzor stumbled into the living room, breathing heavily. Anzor was nearly doubled over with a hand pressed into his side.

“We shifted…to get here,” Maksim wheezed, gulping in air, and collapsed into the plush chair beside me. “So fast.”

“What’d we miss?” Anzor slowly sank to the floor and stretched out, still trying to catch his breath.

Sasha rolled his eyes and stalked into the kitchen. He jerked the pantry open, grabbed two water bottles, and tossed one to each. “You didn’t have to run the entire way here.”

Anzor held an arm above his head, one finger up, as he lifted his head enough to swallow the entire bottle in three gulps.

“Didn’t want Hana to decide to follow,” Maksim stated, swiping his hand across his mouth and placing the empty bottle on the floor.

Anzor groaned as he slowly folded his body up, dangling his arms from his knees. His eyes locked on mine, and I looked down at the throw blanket across my lap. The silence was loud, and their stares were burning into my skin. But I didn’t know what to say about anything Hana had decided to spew.

“Hana’s not your cousin.”

It wasn’t a question. Maksim was stating what Hana had yelled.

I shifted on the couch and pulled the blanket tighter around me. “Not really, no.”

Sasha pulled a chair from their small table and sat before me. He gently tugged my hands from the blanket and rubbed his thumbs over my knuckles.

“Do you share a mother?”

I cringed even as I shook my head. My mother was the most caring Cervidae there had ever been…or at least, that’s how the stories always seemed to paint her. Hana definitely would not have been a spawn of my mother’s.

“Our father. He has a harem of five. Well, he had five. There’s four of them still.” I tried to shrug, to pretend the subject wasn’t bothering me. I was trying not to let it bother me.

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