To Catch a Wolf (A Curvy Girl and Alpha Werewolf Shifter Romance) by Lynn Red

Author:Lynn Red
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: werewolf romance, bad boy werewolf, strong heroine, paranormal romance, bad boy romance, shifter romance, bad boy hero, curvy girl, alpha werewolf, bbw romance, shapeshifter romance, alpha wolf, werewolf erotic romance
Publisher: Tumbling Beauty Press
Published: 2013-12-30T05:00:00+00:00

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“This is just too much, Erik.” Duggan, poor Duggan, walked back and forth, rubbing at the bald crown of his head with one hand, and pulling on his chin-beard with the other. “I’m happy for you – congratulations and all that, Isabel, but this is... you’re the alpha! How could you spring this on us?”

His fretting had a certain kind of cuteness to it, but he was right on at least one count – there was a lot just laid on the table.

“Izzy,” Erik said, “can you help us out here? Duggan’s caught up in all the wrong things. We need to figure out a plan, not hum and haw over my mate. Not right now anyway, we can deal with the mate stuff later. Give us a dose of reason.”

Being called on during a council meeting was something entirely different for me. My normal thing was to sit here typing away on my keyboard, but for once, there was no keyboard. This was a strictly off-the-record meeting.

“I don’t really know, Eri... Sir,” I said. “All I can do is say what I found, and those ledger receipts are it.”

Clay Tomkins, the hyena, perked up, his eyes darting from left to right at whoever was talking. “Ledgers are boring,” he said with a little bit of an up-turn in his voice. “I’d rather talk about mates. Didn’t someone mention mates? Is someone mating with the witchdoctor? I thought witchdoctors didn’t need mates, they just kind of made their own young from... er... parts?”

“It’s not a junkyard, Clay,” Erik said, standing up. “We can just let him resurrect whoever he wants to try and steal another round of money from the town treasury.”

“Th – that’s another thing,” Duggan said, adjusting his suspenders and then loosening them right back to where they were before he started fidgeting. “How do we know this is accurate? It goes against everything we knew about the case. How did this all come out right now? It just makes no sense how we could all have been fooled for so long. And anyway, what would be the benefit to the town council keeping this quiet?”

“Unless the council was all getting a cut,” Jamie said.

That was the first time since he showed up that Duggan got quiet and stopped pacing.

General silence hung for a second. Clay fidgeted, Duggan tugged his beard, but nothing else broke the quiet. Erik looked at me, then at Jamie, who shrugged. “Just a thought,” she said.

“Well,” I said, “looking at these records, only a couple of people from back then are still on the council. There’s—”

“I don’t want to be accused of anything!” Duggan had started sweating. “Just because I’ve been serving this town for thirty years doesn’t mean—”

“Cool down, hedgehog,” Erik said. He swung his boots off the table and onto the floor. “No one’s accusing you of anything. If anyone in this town was incapable of sneakiness, I think most everyone would agree that it’d be you.”

“Humph,” Duggan grunted. “Fine, thank you.

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