Timber Wolf (Virtue Shifters Book 1) by Zoe Chant

Author:Zoe Chant [Chant, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-08T23:00:00+00:00

FIFTEEN

Jake sat back with a thump when Mabs left him, nearly clobbering his head on the underside of the kitchen table. Nobody who ever wanted to have sex again, he thought, should have kids.

Not that he expected telling a beautiful woman that he was a shapeshifter should definitely lead to sex, but it had looked promising there for a moment. The idea of gathering Mabs in his arms, of kissing her and murmuring her name into that gorgeous purple hair, of picking her up, carrying her to bed, of simply being with her, was...really appealing.

Of course it is, his wolf said impatiently. She's your mate and you've been avoiding her for moons and moons!

I haven't been avoiding her! I've been hanging out with her all along! And she has a kid! And an ex! You don't just swoop in and say 'Hi, I'm your fated mate' to a woman in that position!

The wolf sniffed. Scaredy-cat.

Jake sent back an image of a teenage afternoon when he'd been sneaking around the woods in wolf form and somebody's housecat had taken umbrage at his presence on its territory. The cat, which couldn't have weighed more than twelve pounds, fluffed up, bounced across the thin forest floor at him, hissing, snarling and batting at him the whole way. Jake's feet had gotten so tangled up trying to run away that he'd fallen down a hill and into the same stream that ran by Mabs's place.

Wet, like clothes, remained, when a shifter changed shapes.

That was different, his wolf said with affronted dignity.

"Mmm," Jake said aloud. "Cats aren't scaredy, and neither am I."

Mabs came down the stairs again as he spoke, looking much more worn-out than she had when she'd gone up. "Are you down here talking to yourself?" Her voice, soft so as to not wake Noah again, was also gently teasing, as was her smile.

"Not exactly." Jake finally got off the floor, stretching idly. "My wolf is...it's like an inner voice, only more of a smartass. At least, I hope other people's inner voices aren't that snarky."

Mabs leaned in the kitchen door, smiling. "What was—he? It? They?—snarking about?"

"He thought I should have told you a while ago and was smug that you took it well."

Her eyebrows rose. "Well, to be fair to, uh, human-you, I don't know if I would have six weeks ago. Tell him to be nice to you or I won't scratch the top of his head again."

Hey!

Jake laughed. "He objects. I don't know if it'll make him stop giving me a hard time, but it was a good threat."

Mabs wriggled her shoulders, a visible sign of satisfaction that also wriggled the rest of her in an incredibly distracting, attractive way. She'd taken off her bra while upstairs, leaving her breasts free to jiggle under the snug fit of her t-shirt, and that jiggle went all the way down, shaking her little soft belly, her hips, her...Jake got kind of caught around her hips, really, forgetting to draw his gaze any farther down, or any farther up again, for that matter.

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