Alpha House: A Shapeshifter/BBW Novel: The Complete Seven-Part Collection by Starling Lib

Author:Starling, Lib [Starling, Lib]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Running Rabbit Press
Published: 2015-08-27T04:00:00+00:00

.9.

When they arrived at the blue house, Darien was gone.

Brooke looked at her watch and frowned. “He’s at Blackmeade. I forgot; he told me he had a study group out there… some big test he’s worried about passing.”

“He must be at Alpha House, then.”

“I’ll drive.”

But Roxy restrained Brooke with a hand on her wrist as she reached for her purse. “No, I’ll be all right.”

“Are you sure? What if you… what if this happens again while you’re driving?”

“It won’t.”

“You can’t know that for sure, Roxy.”

“I felt Scarlett’s attack before it happened – before I shifted. I know what that feeling means now. If anything like it occurs while I’m on the road, I’ll pull over…”

“Immediately.”

“Immediately,” Roxy promised. She shrugged helplessly, shaking her head. “I just feel like I need to be alone for a while. It’s nothing against you.”

“I understand. Just promise me you’ll be extra-extra careful.”

“Extra super-double-dip careful. I’ll text you when I get to Alpha House, and when I leave, and if anything happens along the way I’ll call you.”

Brooke took a deep breath. She cast a longing look at her purse and the car keys, side by side on the table near the door. But finally she nodded. “Okay. And while you’re at Alpha House, I’m going back into town to look for Scarlett.”

“Don’t talk to her. Don’t even go near her.”

“I won’t. I’ll just try to find out where she’s been hiding.”

The drive out along the isolated highway seemed to take hours. Roxy’s snow tires grated and spun as she left the highway and crept onto the long gravel road, the pale gray path leading over the snowy ridge and down into the bowl of Blackmeade Village. The road seemed to stretch interminably, climbing the foothills but never reaching the crest. Roxy rehearsed what she’d say as she gripped the steering wheel with white-knuckled fists. She tried to imagine how the boys would react to the knowledge that Scarlett was back, and that she hadn’t abandoned her shift-forcing tactics.

Maybe, she thought desperately, maybe Darien is studying ways to stop a witch. Or ways to block her magic. But she knew it was too much to hope for. All Roxy could do as the Jeep ascended the frost-slicked road was to choke out a bitter laugh at her own childish wish.

Blackmeade Village was silent and still as she passed through its wide, sage-lined streets. She parked outside the Alpha House yard, an expanse of muddy footprints and desultory crusts of snow, and sent her text to Brooke. But before she could even exit the Jeep, the house’s door swung wide and Alexander’s pale shape filled the dark doorway.

Roxy picked her way carefully across the yard. All but the worst of the mud was frozen, so her boots didn’t sink into the muck, but it was slow going over the rough terrain. By the time she reached Alexander, her face was flushed with the effort and with the urgency of her message.

He noted her agitation before she even said a word.

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