The Paranormal Council Complete Series 1-5 by Laura Greenwood

Author:Laura Greenwood [Greenwood, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

8

Not for the first time, Rory wondered why she'd agreed to this. Alden had worn her down and convinced her to have dinner with him, Bjorn and Arabella, who'd insisted on being called Ari the moment they'd been introduced. So now she was sat at a kitchen island, glass of wine in hand, watching the auburn-haired fox shifter organise a small banquet. She'd offered to help, but Ari had waved her off almost instantly.

Rory was still a little in awe of their home, especially as neither Bjorn or Ari were much older than she was. While it was hard to age shifters, much like it was most paranormals, Alden had told her that the two of them were in their early thirties. Their flat was at least twice the size of her own, with an open plan living space and kitchen, and the kind of touches that made somewhere home. Even down to the hand-drawn picture of Ari and three children that was tacked to the fridge. That drawing, more than anything, made Rory think about children of her own for the first time in her life.

"My niece drew it for me," Ari said, seeing where Rory was looking.

"Are you close?" she asked, already envying the idea. She barely spoke to her family, and it was honestly better that way, but it didn't stop her wanting more. Ari pulled a face, and Rory thought better of asking anymore. There was clearly some part of the conversation that made the other woman uncomfortable, and that was the last thing she wanted to do.

"So, Alden said you wanted to know more about how shifter mating works?" Ari deflected the question, while pulling some kind of meat from the oven and basting it. Rory looked around nervously, trying to check where the two men had got to. "Oh, don't worry about them. They're off doing whatever it is male shifters do," Ari added with a dismissive wave of her hand. Not that that reassured Rory in the slightest. Bjorn was at least twice Alden's size, and that was in human form. She was sure that the bear shifter would swamp him in animal form too.

"Yes," she admitted. Actually, she wasn't sure that she did want to know more. But on the flip side, if she didn't talk to Ari then she'd likely just worry about it.

"If you want to know if you can stop it, then the answer is a big fat no." Ari took a long sip of her wine, making herself comfortable on the other bar stool. "Trust me, I tried to deny a mating bond, and all I really managed to do was deprive myself time with Bjorn in the process.”

"You know you glow more when you talk about him?" Rory asked, forgetting that Ari was a shifter and probably had no idea how necromancer magic worked.

"I what?"

"Glow more. Everyone has this spark inside them, we call it a life light. I guess it’s to do with their life force or something.

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