Bear's Midlife Witch (Shifter Nation: Fated Over Forty) by Meg Ripley

Author:Meg Ripley [Ripley, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shifter Nation
Published: 2022-08-10T04:00:00+00:00

12

Shannon heard the vehicle coming up the driveway before she was even fully conscious. She lay in her bed, trying to determine if she was actually hearing it or if it was just another product of her wildly active imagination. She hadn’t been herself ever since she got home. How could she be? Lenora and the kids had noticed, and they’d even been a little suspicious when she’d told them she was sick, but they hadn’t pressed her.

She’d gone to bed, thinking she’d just sleep it all off and look at it with fresh eyes in the morning. The trouble was she couldn’t sleep for shit with those thoughts colliding in her mind, so she’d spent most of the time tossing and turning, examining the deep shadows of the room as she tried to determine what was real versus imaginary.

There was no mistaking the sound of the vehicle now. Shannon slipped out of bed and left her slippers near the closet. Her bare feet were quieter as she crossed the room, but the squeaky door told on her. The short hall opened into the main living space of the cabin. All was quiet, with only the scent of Lenora’s chamomile tea lingering in the air. Could she have been wrong after all?

But then she heard the quiet thud of a car door. Shannon’s bare feet thumped through the room, sending a shower of dried herbs raining down from the ceiling. She flicked the ratty curtain aside. The moonlight spread over the clearing out front, and in the middle of it sat a sedan. She didn’t recognize the car or the plates, but there was no mistaking the man who’d just gotten out of it.

“Fuck.” He just had to come there. She’d just had to let it slip that she was at Lenora’s, and now he’d shown up. It was bad enough that Shannon had to deal with Jason’s return, but what about her kids? How could she explain to Kinsley that the father she barely remembered was suddenly alive? And how could she face Liam, expecting a kid who was already having such a hard time finding his place in the world, to understand there’d just been one giant mistake? The shadows of the porch hid her as she slipped out the front door.

Jason jumped back when he saw her come out onto the top step. He laughed and pressed his hand to his heart. “You got me there, Shan.”

Her heart hammered against her ribs hearing his old nickname for her, but not in the way he’d intended. She saw that grin, that mischievous light in his eyes. Whatever he was there for, it wasn’t to beg her forgiveness or make explanations. “Go away.”

“Hey, I just want to talk.” He put his hands up innocently. “I hadn’t expected to run into you, and I figured we didn’t get a chance to catch up the way we should.”

“It’s not like you went on an Alaskan cruise. We don’t have any catching up to do.

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