Lover Claimed by A.M. Griffin

Author:A.M. Griffin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: multicultural, paranormal, shapeshifter, wolf, interracial, wealthy, shifter, am griffin

Chapter Eleven

She took in a sharp breath. Her heart seemed to stop. Was she scared of him now? No. But her common sense told her she should be.

“I don’t know what exactly you think we are, Meisha. Paranormals are dangerous and we’re smart. We’ve been on this planet just as long as humans and we haven’t been found out. Some of us, like shifters, walk freely during the day, while others slink through the night. There’s nothing docile about what I am. I’m a predator—a lethal one.”

Predator…

Lethal.

She swallowed a lump in her throat. Granted she didn’t know Lajos very well, but he didn’t strike her as anything but…human.

“Sorry to lay it on you so harshly, but I don’t think you’re fully aware of what’s going on here. You took down a shifter—which is not even heard of for a human to do so easily—and I think you have it twisted in your head that it’ll be that easy if you were attacked again.”

“I caught him by surprise,” she said, her mouth feeling like it was full of cotton. “Everyone…thing…” She shook her head, not even knowing how to address him or talk about the man she killed anymore. “No one or thing expects a surprise attack, that’s why it’s called a surprise.”

“You’re right. But those shifters in there,” he pointed in the direction of the house that she couldn’t even see, “would love to get their hands on you.”

She settled back onto her seat. Having people wanting to get their hands on her wasn’t a new concept. “I’m sure they would, but they’d have to stand in line.”

He angled his body toward her and rested a hand on his thigh. “What do you mean?”

She pressed her lips together tightly. She hadn’t meant to say that out loud. It was between her and her family, not to be discussed with outsiders. But there was something about the way he watched her that made her feel comfortable in his presence. They may go back and forth with banter but, in reality, it felt good. Right. Most people couldn’t tolerate her smart mouth or the bad attitude that she projected to keep herself from getting close to anyone, but Lajos seemed to take it all in stride and move past it.

“My dad is—was—a high ranking member in the Yaruzi,” she said, with a little hesitation. If Lajos knew anything about gang life then he would know it was deadly and dangerous. “Yaruzi is the largest gang in Japan.” She had guarded those words so tightly that it seemed almost foreign to speak them out loud.

Those words had kept her and her family bound to a secret life. She’d only told one other person; Trudy. If the day came when the Yaruzi finally found them and they had to leave Jacksonville, Trudy was the only person on the outside who would aid her. And now she may’ve inadvertently gotten Trudy harmed.

Her and her family might’ve put Trudy’s life in danger just to be able to store extra clothes and a stash of money in Trudy’s attic.

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