The Shifters by M.D. Grimm

Author:M.D. Grimm [Grimm, M.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: gay romance, paranormal
ISBN: 9781634767156
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2015-08-27T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

XAVIER DIDN’T know what was coming over him. Or, rather, he wished he didn’t know. But he did. It was something he’d avoided in his previous life and in this one. But he could resist all he wanted; it wouldn’t help.

He was falling for the damn ginger Agency aide.

Glowering, Xavier drove, staring at the road. Of all the creatures on God’s planet, he had to choose the one least likely to feel the same. Josh probably found him pitiful, deranged. A way to become an agent. Oh yes, he remembered Josh’s eager words while he’d been in the Agency’s cage. He remembered how desperate Josh was to become an agent. Helping a fucked-up shifter would certainly get him some stars for that.

Black anger settled on Xavier. He couldn’t resent Josh for his feelings. They were logical, weren’t they? Reasonable? Josh’s life was for the Agency. And his own… well, he’d figure that out as soon as he learned how to either control, or get rid of completely, the voice that even now was thrumming in the back of his head.

He’d thought nothing of his own wellbeing when disarming those punks. It had been pitifully easy to do so, anyway. They might have known how to shoot a gun, but they had been children without them.

“Thank you,” Josh said quietly.

Xavier raised an eyebrow. “What?”

“For protecting me. Thank you.”

Some of the blank anger left. How could he be mad at Josh without knowing the man’s true feelings? Assumptions always got people into trouble.

“You’re welcome.”

Out of the corner of his eye, Xavier saw Josh open his mouth. But then he closed it and turned to stare out the window. What had he been about to say?

“We’ll be heading south now,” Xavier said. “We’ll approach the desert from the north.”

Josh nodded.

“You think the Agency’s after us yet?”

“I don’t know.”

Xavier didn’t like the short answers. He wanted Josh talking again. Not just because of the voice but because he liked listening. He liked Josh’s voice. He liked learning just how much strange information was stored in that brain.

“Feel free to talk anytime,” Xavier offered. He tried to sound casual. He thought he’d managed to pull it off.

Josh glanced at him. “Agent Poe found you in Washington. You had gone after another wolf shifter.”

Xavier glowered. That was not what he wanted to talk about.

But, wait. Washington?

“What’s the name?”

“Derek Williams.”

Xavier blinked slowly. Holy hell. Derek Williams? No way. It had been years, hell, decades since he had that weekend of pleasure with Derek I-want-to-be-an-animal-cop Williams. They had barely been out of their teens. They’d both left their packs, albeit with different going-away parties. Xavier’s had been a boot to the ass, and Derek’s had been tearful. They’d both been pack shifters out in the real world for the first time. A little scared, very much alone. They’d gravitated toward each other when they’d locked eyes in that bar.

Derek?

“Did I…?”

“No,” Josh said instantly. “No. He’s still alive. And, well, he has a new mate. You, um, actually attacked his mate and….

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