Alpha Shifter Protectors: Paranormal Romance Collection by Hudson Keri

Author:Hudson, Keri [Hudson, Keri]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-07-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Caleb was spraying the vegetable garden, keeping a steady eye on the woods around the property, Abigail and Daniel reading at the table behind the house and overlooking the expansive backyard. The topiaries stood on the east side of the yard, silent and still in a never-ending vigil.

Caleb stopped to smile and wave at the two, who returned the gesture. Caleb could see that he’d touched something deep in Abigail’s heart, and she’d done the same. Caleb had been alone for years, afraid that the violence of his inherent state and the lifestyle that went along with it would be too dangerous for any innocent such as the lovely Abigail. But she seemed willing, and even more than that, she seemed to have a real affection for him, pure and loving, like herself.

Caleb relished the rush of warmth that pulsed through his tissues just to look at her, just to recall the musky moments they’d shared and to imagine the nights to come. Edith had her disapproval, Caleb understood that. And the return of Master Armstrong would raise what had happened between them to the surface, Caleb had little doubt. But he looked at Abigail and saw a treasure he’d been seeking his whole life. Nobody and nothing was going to take that away from him.

But there was something out there that wanted to do just that.

More questions wriggled in the back of Caleb’s brain. Edith said the great man was coming home, but she didn’t say that he was bringing his wife back with him. That meant the old man must have failed to find her, or that he did and she refused to return with him. Is it the killings that brought him back? Does he know about the shifter?

Or is he nearby even now, having never gone to Europe at all. But… why?

Theories developed in Caleb’s brain, growing like the tomato plants at his feet. Could Master Armstrong be the bear shifter? Could he be the one who attracted Carl here, who killed my brother? But… why not remain here at the house? Is he drawing in lupines, killing us one by one in some kind of systematic death trap?

The idea didn’t last long.

No, there are too many of us. He’d have to know he’d be doing this forever, trapping and killing lupines one at a time. But the idea didn’t lack merit the more Caleb thought about it. Certainly possible, he had to admit.

But that brought up a troubling prospect. If Armstrong’s a shifter, Caleb realized, his son may very well be one too. Caleb looked at Daniel with a new perspective. The boy sat happily with his beloved tutor, looking at the dinosaur book she held open in front of him. He glanced at Caleb and smiled, then back at the book. He’d seen what Caleb had done, Caleb didn’t doubt it. He’d witnessed the battle, the shift probably to and from his lupine form. But he wasn’t terrified by it as most children might be.

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