Grayslake: More than Mated: A Little Bit Squirrelly (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Nova Carlyle

Author:Nova Carlyle [Carlyle , Nova]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-08-19T18:30:00+00:00

Five

Clementine accepted the water Bryce held out with a wistful sigh. It wasn’t her fault beer turned into a faucet. And it’s not like she was actually crying-crying. In fact, she was the opposite of sad. She and her squirrel had finally found their mate and he couldn’t have come at a better time because maybe—just maybe—she’d worried that she hadn’t made the right decision in shedding her old life. That doubt left a vulnerable chink in her new armor. But Bryce? He plugged that hole straight up and Clementine knew everything was finally as it was supposed to be.

So she wanted to celebrate and to drink. Getting drunk wasn’t an option, not with her shifter metabolism and only one lonely bottle of Sambuca so she’d have to settle for a happy buzz. But that might be for the best considering he wasn’t handling the whole “M” word thing very well. Stunning eyes he might have, but Bryce was seriously lacking in emotional expression. His mouth was stern, his frown was stern and his cheekbones could fell trees—she wanted to chew on them so badly—but not a single feature in his face did a whole lot to reveal what he was thinking.

Even right now, as he sat quietly dishing up two plates of food, Clementine couldn’t read him. It worried her. Mostly because he was so hesitant about the “M” word and that didn’t really make sense. He claimed he couldn’t have her based on how other predator shifters reacted to him, but she couldn’t swallow that explanation. He was her mate. He was hers and no one else’s and she wasn’t going to share and she sure as hell wasn’t going to give two flying fucks about what anyone else thought. So there had to be a different reason—something else holding him back.

A sick feeling made the back of her mouth water. Was she too much? Too much loud, too much wild, and a hinge unhinged? It wasn’t like Bryce had lived under a rock his whole life. He’d had to of heard of her and seen her before in her professional capacity whether that was a billboard or a magazine.

Her heart slowly sank, weighing heavily on the rich food in her system. But what if that’s what Bryce liked? Maybe he was attracted to her—but to the model she used to be

Was this free and wild version of her really that terrible that even a man she knew in her heart was her mate didn’t want her?

She could ask him. And then what? What if he said he wanted a demure, well-groomed she-squirrel who spoke French and was the darling of fashion designers worldwide?

Was she going to give herself up all over again? Even if it was for the boy she should have never lost in the first place?

Surely, as his mate, none of that would matter to Bryce. Right? He’d want the version of her that was the truest and the realest. She took another drink of water, trying to distract herself from her own doubts.

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