Wish Upon a Werewolf: Wolves of Angels Rest (Mating Season Collection) by Elsa Jade

Author:Elsa Jade [Jade, Elsa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01A16SOFK
Publisher: Red Circle Ink
Published: 2015-12-29T18:30:00+00:00

6

Annie knew she was being watched. Not just by Gypsy, who had set her to updating the inventory of booze and dry goods, but by the others who drifted into the bar because they “just needed to ask a question” or “just wanted a cup of coffee”. Who drank roadhouse coffee anytime that wasn’t 3 a.m.?

A bouncy redhead in a puffy jacket blew in late in the afternoon and threw herself onto a bar stool just one down from where Annie was tallying up her last lists.

“Hey, Dare,” Gypsy said. “Getcha coffee?”

“I love you, lady, but your coffee is worse than Angel Creek runoff after a cattle drive.”

Gypsy snorted. “What do you want then?”

“A cup of tea, I suppose. And to interrogate your new waitress.” She turned toward Annie.

Who’d been listening, of course, but pretending not to. She stiffened when the redhead focused on her. She hadn’t expected anyone to admit their curiosity.

She eyed the redhead warily. “Interrogate? There won’t be, like, waterboarding or anything, I hope.”

The woman—Dare didn’t seem that much older than Annie was, though the flowers appliquéd on her jeans made her look harmlessly young—flashed a sly grin. “Maybe just sleep deprivation.”

Considering she’d yawned more than a few times during the day, Annie couldn’t stop herself from blushing. While she’d been busting her ass in the bar, apparently Blaze had been out kissing and telling.

“What do you want to know?” she asked stiffly as Gypsy slid a steaming mug across the bar and then made herself scarce in the back room.

“Blaze said you were in trouble and you think the wolf can get you out.”

A zing of interest made Annie swivel toward the other woman. Was Dare a werewolf too? She didn’t look like a monster; she looked more like a pinup model. “My ex always liked to celebrate by drinking. And then smacking me. Since Tomas just got early release from prison for ‘good behavior’, I’m thinking he’s going to be particularly celebratory on my ass.”

Dare studied her. “That’s tough.”

Annie lifted her chin. “It’s going to be really tough for him when I’m a werewolf.”

She half expected the soft, pretty woman to give her some blowback about turning the other cheek. But Dare nodded. “I bit most of the way through a guy’s hand once. It was nasty.” She took a long drink of her tea as if to wash out the remembered taste.

Picturing the stylish Dare as a ravening wolf left Annie blinking. “I sort of thought just showing him would be enough.”

“Maybe. But a wolf isn’t a pet on a leash.”

Annie scowled. “This seems less like an interrogation and more like a lecture. I got plenty of those from the public defender and the social worker and the parole officer and the ER doc who set my bones last Christmas. See, I’m the one who put Tomas away.”

“Good for you.”

Annie snorted. “Whatever. The first thing he did when he found out he was getting out?” She tucked her hair behind her ear and angled her bruised cheek toward the light from the window.

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