The Shifter's Choice by Jenna Kernan

Author:Jenna Kernan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Just a date, Sonia thought as she returned to Brianna’s home hours later to prepare for her evening with Johnny.

But it was more, much, much more. Sonia felt the truth of that in her heart. He was tall, dangerous and his very presence threatened her nice, safe world. And now that he was human, Johnny stirred all her sexual fantasies.

He’d come through this nightmare. But his experiences must have scorched him. Had it been too much? Had they ruined him the way the drink had ruined her mother?

Some hurts are too big to heal, her mother had once said. Your only chance is to drown them.

Weren’t Johnny’s sorrows bigger than her mother’s, bigger than her own? She knew Johnny and respected him. But now he was human and her confidence fled.

Whatever happened tonight, there would be consequences. She just didn’t know what they would be.

Sonia went to work applying eyeliner and curling her eyelashes. Then she applied a red lip that made her mouth look lush. Brianna insisted she tuck the tube of lipstick in her borrowed clutch.

When her makeup was finished, Sonia began pacing in her silver high heels, borrowed from Brianna, as well. They shared a similar foot size, dress size and an affinity for werewolves.

But Brianna had sought and had achieved a lasting relationship with the captain. That took a kind of optimism Sonia had never had.

She paused to regard her reflection in a full length mirror. Their dress size might be the same but their body type was not. Sonia was sure that the dress that looked elegant on Brianna’s willowy form but it looked like an invitation on her curves.

What would Johnny think? He’d seen her in a bathing suit, but not in makeup and red lipstick. He deserved a pretty, feminine date. Besides, Sonia wasn’t a girl to be dressed in pink, but neither was she the confident sexy woman who stared back. She’d never wore red before in her life and now she knew why. Brianna’s reflection appeared behind her in the mirror. Sonia met her gaze but did not return her encouraging smile.

“I feel like the cape that the matador waves before a bull,” she said to Brianna.

Brianna chuckled. “Yes, I can see that. I reached Travis. He’s given his permission.” Brianna searched Sonia’s expression and opened her mouth to say something before cocking her head. “They’re here.”

Sonia stopped as if suddenly frozen and her heart jolted along at a gallop.

“I don’t hear them.”

Brianna shrugged and tapped one ear. “Super hearing,” she muttered and headed for the door but she paused close to Sonia and smiled. “Have a wonderful evening and please come and see me again soon. You’re welcome anytime.”

Sonia felt a welling of gratitude and a sense of how very few people Brianna would welcome into her home.

“I will. And thank you for the dress and, well, everything.”

Brianna smiled, reached toward Sonia and then drew her hands back, folding them tightly before her. “I hope they play a slow dance.

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