My Thanksgiving Faux Paw: In Between (Peculiar Mysteries Book 10) by George Renee

Author:George, Renee [George, Renee]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Barkside of the Moon Press
Published: 2019-11-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

I took Jack out back for privacy. Plus, Baby Jude was nearly four now and was going through a "why?" phase. I didn’t want to introduce him to his supposed uncle until I knew I could trust Jack. Wait. What? Was I actually beginning to accept I had a brother?

"Please tell me you have dragons," Jack said. He was staring at the fire blackened grass.

"They do make great pets," I said.

His eyes bulged. "You've got to be kidding."

"Of course, I'm kidding." I rolled my eyes. "There's no such things as dragons."

"Until about half an hour ago, I didn't think there was any such things as shifters and werewolves."

"Fair point." I gestured toward some bench seating Babe and I had set up under a large silver maple. Unfortunately, this late in the year, the leaves that were left on the tree had already gone from vibrant orange to a dead brown. Babe had spent the day before raking up scads of the fallen leaves. "Let's sit over there."

Jack was wearing his jacket, but he gave his arms a quick rub then put on his gloves after we sat down.

It was fifty degrees out, but I felt comfortable enough in my sweater. Since December, I had been changed. A wedding gift for Chav from Brother Wolf. He'd told her that he wanted to make her happy, and he knew that having me in her life was a good start. He didn't turn me into a therianthrope. That was a gene you had to be born with. However, he granted me the long life of one, which meant that my body adapted to cold and heat better than an average human, I was more resistant to colds and flus, and my aging process had slowed way down. Thank heavens. I was already a decade older than my husband, and I had worried more than once about what our lives would be like forty years from now. His second gift to her was the gorgeously cheerful Rory. Though, if he'd only been doling out one gift that day, I would have gladly given up a long life so that she could have her baby.

I pivoted on the bench to face Jack. "This is the last time I'm going to ask. Why are you here? You said you had a warning, so give it to me."

"Mom was diagnosed with cancer."

"I'm sorry," I said. I had to admit, if only to myself, that a part of me hurt hearing the news. "How bad is it?"

"She has something called multiple myeloma in her right thigh bone," Jack said. "She's been fighting it with chemo, steroids, and blood transfusions for almost a year now."

"Is it working?"

"The cancer has started to spread into her hip."

"Is there any way to stop it?"

"The doctors are looking for a bone marrow match. Unfortunately, I was only a thirty-eight percent match, and they need at least fifty percent for a transplant." He sighed. "If they can't find one, they will have to amputate.

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