Holding Honor (Ashland Pride Nine) by R. E. Butler

Author:R. E. Butler [Butler, R. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: shifter romance, shifter menage romance, menage shifter romance, mountain lion shifter
Publisher: R.E. Butler
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Saturday morning, Honor was up before dawn and out in the kitchen making coffee. Although some things had been updated from when she was a teenager, the house still felt exactly as she remembered it, from the old-school Mr. Coffee machine to the worn coffee mugs. He still had the World’s Greatest Dad mug that she’d picked out from a gift shop for a Christmas present for him when she was in elementary school.

“You couldn’t sleep?” Hope asked as she walked into the kitchen.

“I’m an early bird by nature,” Honor said. “You?”

“Uh, not really. I like to sleep in, especially on Saturdays. But Pop says if you don’t get up until noon then half the day is gone already.”

Honor smiled. “I think I inherited my early-bird tendencies from him. Do you drink coffee?”

“Only if it’s really sweet, flavored with chocolate, and poured over ice.”

“Can we do that in this kitchen?”

“Nope. There’s a coffee shop in town, though. Pop gets bagels every Sunday morning and they have a really great mocha iced coffee.”

“Bagels every Sunday? How long has he been doing that?”

“A few years. He dated the coffee shop owner for a while.”

Honor pressed the button on the coffee maker and it sputtered to life. “I didn’t know he’d dated. What happened?”

“Her kids were grown, and she didn’t want to get serious with him because she didn’t want to be raising another kid.”

“That’s shitty.”

Hope shrugged. “Pop said it was better to know that up front than for her to pretend to like our situation.”

“That’s true.”

Hope poured a bowl of cereal for herself and sat down. Honor fixed her coffee and sat across from her daughter.

“Do you want to ask me any questions? I’m sure you have some.”

“Are you going to move to King?”

“Would you like me to?”

“At first I wasn’t sure if I even wanted to get to know you. My friend Tawny’s mom said that any mother, shifter or not, who walked away from a newborn should be run out of town. She said I shouldn’t bother to get to know you because you weren’t worth knowing.”

“Damn.”

“Well, she’s human. Humans don’t get shifters. She can’t even begin to understand shifters in general, but add in this curse business – which I’m not sure I get, either – and she’s lost. It’s easy to say that sort of thing about a shifter from the outside looking in, but she can’t possibly know what it’s like for us. But after talking to you on the phone this last week, meeting you yesterday, and waking up this morning knowing you were still here… Yeah, I think I want you to move here.”

Honor’s heart swelled. “I haven’t talked to Jax and Holden officially yet, but I’d like to move to King.”

“Good. I’m a sophomore. Maybe after I graduate, we can talk about going to Ashland. Pop’s waiting until then to retire.”

“That sounds like a plan. I’m sure we can find a place to rent in town. I appreciate you being willing to give me another chance.

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