Twisted Twilight: An Urban Fantasy Series (Bat McCall Book 2) by Laken Cane

Author:Laken Cane [Cane, Laken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2023-06-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Stepping into the music-blaring, boisterous, crowded River Roost was like coming home after being away for years. I didn’t realize how much I’d missed it until I walked into the midst of hunters and friends.

“Bat,” someone yelled, and in the next second, I was surrounded by hunters I hadn’t seen in forever.

“I’m so happy about your daddy,” a hunter named Mandy told me, giving me a quick hug. “I saw him the other night. Crazy, that.”

And there was nothing in her lined face but happiness. No suspicion about how he might have come back to life, no accusation in her light blue eyes.

The rest of them were the same. No one was anything but thrilled that John McCall was back among them. And for a little while, every bad thing that had happened in the last few weeks dropped away, and I could breathe again.

I raised my hand to wave to Brie, busy behind the bar, and she grinned and mouthed something I couldn’t understand, then pointed her chin at someone across the bar—and it was only then that I saw Gray sitting on a barstool watching me.

I walked across the battered wood floor toward him, my boots crunching on peanut shells, and his smile, slow and somehow sweet, caused his eyes to crinkle at the corners. I’d noticed the way his lips tilted at the corners before I realized I was actually looking at Gray Bishop’s lips, and though I didn’t blush often, I blushed then.

Then I shrugged it off. I was a healthy woman, and I could admit that Gray was sexy in more ways than I could count. Not just his body, either.

And maybe I was needing something—or someone—to take my mind off the awfulness with Jake Ledger, a wolf I was connected to, whether I wanted to be or not.

That was as true as Gray’s sexiness.

I climbed onto the barstool next to him. “What are you doing away from John?” I asked him, not trying to be snarky, but it came out like that, anyway. I was nervous, but that wasn’t new. I was always nervous around Gray.

“I got your item,” Brie told me, before he could reply.

I was pretty sure he hadn’t planned on replying anyway. I lifted an eyebrow. “That was fast, even for you.”

She laughed, then leaned closer. “Come upstairs in half an hour. Meg will take over for me so we can catch up.”

Then she hurried away to tend her many customers, and I took a drink of my beer, a drink that nearly strangled me half to death when Gray brushed my shoulder with his and said three words I never imagined he’d be saying to me.

“Dance with me.”

When I finished coughing and only stared at him, he grinned, got off his barstool, and held out his hand. “One song.”

I could’ve said a dozen things, like “What the hell?” or “Who are you and what have you done with Gray Bishop?” or “Did my fucking father put you up to this shit?” But I didn’t say anything.

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