Furever Ours by Iris Balfour

Author:Iris Balfour [Balfour, Iris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Romance / Paranormal / Shifters, FIC027310, Fantasy romance, FMR
Publisher: Iris Balfour
Published: 2016-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Laleesha

D ays later, I couldn’t believe what I’d seen. My thoughts tumbled from “I saw Cara turn into a bear” to “I had a bad dream.”

What made me grudgingly come to accept the possibility it was all true was that Dominic had said the same thing. I didn’t think they were scheming together against me. What on earth for?

And their building me a cabin made sense now. My baby needed a safe home where they could keep an eye on her.

I didn’t want to share my baby with them. But if my baby really was a wolf shifter, I was going to need their help. I couldn’t teach her everything she needed to know. I should be grateful they were looking out for her.

Truth was, I resented it. I wanted my baby to be a normal human baby, not some kind of freak. It should be just her and me living a normal life.

That might be why I took it so much to heart that I couldn’t answer the questions the doctor had asked about my family medical history. My baby might be part shifter, but my side of her counted for something too. It made a difference if heart disease or any of that other stuff they’d asked about was in my family.

I could call Mama and just not tell her where I was. If I called when Biter was sure to be out, I wouldn’t have to worry about talking to him.

Biter always made his rounds on Saturday afternoons. The very next Saturday while Sophie was out at the register, I quietly went to the phone in the storeroom. If my service hadn’t been cut off, I would have taken my cell phone outside to call. I wasn’t sneaking around exactly, but if Sophie knew I was calling my mama she might try to talk me out of it.

My hands shook a little when I punched in the numbers on the old-fashioned phone. But I was calling for my baby, and Mama couldn’t do anything to hurt me.

“Where you been?” Mama snapped as soon as she heard my voice. “Biter’s been looking all over for you. Get your ass back home.”

“I—” She couldn’t make me, I reminded myself. “I’m not going back there. Look, Mama, I just wanted to talk for a while. I was wondering—”

“You’ll be talking to the back of my hand if you don’t get back here. Where you at?”

“Nowhe—” I almost slipped up. “Nowhere you can find me. Anyway, Mama, what did Aunt Bobbie die from?”

“What do you care about your Aunt Bobbie? You always ran and hid when she came over.”

“She didn’t have diabetes, did she?”

Mama snorted. “Who knows? It was her ticker that gave in.”

“So heart disease runs in the family?”

“You’re so curious, why don’t you come back and ask your questions in person?”

“I got a job,” I hedged. “They don’t give me a lot of time off.”

“Well, when you think you can spare some of your precious time for your mama, you come ask your questions to my face.

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