Bear Vet: Shifter Vets #2 by Chant Zoe

Author:Chant, Zoe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Judy woke up with a crick in her neck from Ha Ha Hotel’s flat pillow. She hadn’t felt comfortable leaving a window open, so the air was stale and smelled like cigarettes. When she went to take a shower, she was unsurprised to discover that the water didn’t get hotter than barely lukewarm.

She couldn’t help wishing she’d accepted Waylon’s offer of a nice bed-and-breakfast.

Rubbing her hair dry on a threadbare towel, she muttered to herself, “Charity is for horses. Independence is for humans.”

An unpleasant smell met her nose. She sniffed the towel. It was mildewed. “Ugh!”

On second thought, she should have accepted Waylon’s offer to let her stay at his house. That wasn’t charity, that was simple kindness.

And a dash of simple horniness, she admitted to herself. No. It was best to keep things going slow, like they’d both said they wanted. Judy had no idea if she’d ever come back to La Puerta again, and then there was Waylon’s “complicated family thing.” Whatever that was.

She used a spare shirt to try to scrub any lingering eau de mildew from her hair, wondering what the heck the complicated family thing could be. It couldn’t be that Raelynn hadn’t taken well to his past girlfriends, or that Waylon was worried about introducing big changes into her life, or anything along those lines. Those were things Judy worried about, and probably he did too, but they couldn’t be what he’d meant. None of those made sense as a secret.

He’s not her biological father? Judy wondered. He’s not her biological father, and her bio-dad is fighting a custody battle to get her back? He is her bio-father, and her mom wants custody?

But Raelynn had her father’s strong chin and forthright attitude, not to mention that her flaming hair was a more intense version of his red-gold. And from everything they’d both said, her mom wasn’t much in the picture by her own choice.

Judy couldn’t help turning it over and over in her mind, but she couldn’t come up with a single scenario that made sense. It made her uneasy. This great guy and his sweet, horse-crazy daughter had some deep (but not bad) complicated family secret, and it was such a big deal that Waylon wasn’t comfortable getting too close to anyone until he could reveal it.

They’re in witness protection—no, that was definitely bad. Raelynn’s mother is famous, and the whole family gets stalked by paparazzi whenever she visits? Waylon is an undercover FBI agent? They recently found out that they’re heirs to the British throne? He inherited a castle in Scotland and they need to live in it to keep it?

There was a knock at the door, followed by a deep male voice that instantly kindled a heat in her body. “Judy?”

“Coming!”

She opened the door. There was Waylon, even bigger and more handsome and more heart-skip-inducing than she’d remembered. His shoulder and arm muscles bulged against his white T-shirt. “Ready for breakfast?”

She bit back the impulse to rush back into the

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