Celebration Bear by Scarlett Grove

Author:Scarlett Grove [Grove, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-25T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Cici pulled up in front of the Fate Valley Resort for the Fate Valley Wives’ Club’s New Year Day Luncheon. It was an event her mother had talked her into going to every year for the last fifteen years. She didn't relish this meeting, but she and her mother did together. Cici loved her mom so she always agreed to go.

She didn't like most of the women who were in the Wives’ Association and wished that she could get out of it this year. A lot of them were snobs and many of them disliked shifters. Her mom liked the fact that they did charity fundraisers. Cici he had to admit, that part appealed to her as well.

She climbed out of her sedan in her freshly pressed pink dress and walked to the front entrance of the resort. Inside, the ladies were already gathered in the restaurant. The whole thing had been reserved for the lunchion. Cici found her mother sitting at a table with her friends. She sat down beside her and said hello.

"Cici, you look positively radiant," her mother said, leaning in and kissing her on the cheek.

"Thank you, Mom," Cici said, giving her mom an affectionate hug.

Her mother poured her a cup of coffee, and Cici stirred in cream and sugar and took a sip.

"We were just talking about what happened at the New Year's Eve party," her mother said.

"It was positively dreadful,” her mother’s friend Constance said. “Vicki Talbot was the chairperson of the Children's Hospital fundraiser this year. I just can't get over the fact that someone killed her. If Vicki could be murdered then any of us could.”

"I just don't know how we can sleep at night,” said woman in a white pillbox hat, sitting across from Cici.

"I heard that you were seen with that pyrotechnician from the night of the murder," Constance said. "The police questioned him about it, you know."

"I know," Cici said, not sure how much to divulge. She didn't want to hide the fact that she was with Thorian, but at the same time, she wasn’t sure how much information she wanted to give these ladies today.

"What were you doing with the pyrotechnician?" her mother asked.

Cici let out a long sigh and bit her lip. She and her mother were close. Everything had happened so quickly with Thorian that she hadn’t had a chance to tell her anything. Cici knew her mom didn't have anything against shifters. Her family wasn’t like a lot of the women in the Wives’ Association.

"The truth is," Cici said with a sigh, "Thorian is my mate. We were matched on Mate.com just a few days ago. New Year's Eve was our first date.”

"Cici," her mother said with a gasp. "You didn't tell me. We tell each other everything."

Cici knew that her mother was hurt and that was the last thing she wanted.

"I know, mom. It just happened so fast. And then Vicki was killed, and I forgot to tell you."

"You don't think he had anything to do with it.

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