Needed in Garoureve (The Shifters of Garoureve Book 2) by Elle M Drew

Author:Elle M Drew [Drew, Elle M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

“This is not a date,” Scarlett said, bursting into laughter as she watched Mardoc try to shove the door in again.

It seemed impossible that it wouldn’t give under his supernatural strength. The door to Mabel’s cottage was clearly being kept shut by magic, and no amount of force was going to budge it. And yet, Mardoc refused to give up.

“You said you want to understand how wolves heal,” he insisted as he pushed off from the door and moved to one of the windows. “Come on. I know her daughter used to sneak out. One of these windows has to have the protection spell removed.”

Scarlett snorted as he climbed up onto the roof of the porch, easily pulling up his large form. She did want to learn and understand, and yet, she doubted there was a realistic explanation available.

Wolf shifters, magic, witches, apparently possibly even vampires? She doubted there was a scientific explanation to it, and she was on the verge of giving up understanding it. Well, not giving up, but simply accepting that some things did not have an explanation she would ever understand.

And yet Mardoc persisted because she had asked.

“Some things simply can’t be explained, and that’s okay!” she called out after him, nervously watching as he checked the windows. She was terrified he would fall and break his neck. Could werewolves heal from a broken neck? She didn’t want to find out.

“Really?” Mardoc asked as he looked back down at her. “You’re just goin’ to accept that? I thought doctor types—”

“I’m not a doctor!” she explained for the umpteenth time. “Yes, a biologist or something, a doctor, they would care about explaining the why and how, but I recognize that there’s more to medicine than just... look, I’m still working my way through my feelings, but—oh my God!”

He jumped down from the roof easily, landing on his feet beside her. He had practically flown through the air, and she expected to hear the crunch of his ankles or something else breaking.

And besides, he was in his thirties! His body should be showing a bit of weakness from age. A man in his thirties shouldn’t be able to jump off roofs with no injuries!

And yet, he did it with ease, still standing on his feet.

“Look, you said you’re stayin’, right?” he asked, not for the first time. It was almost as though she had to reassure him, repeatedly. While the first time or two it had annoyed her, all it took was a single conversation with his grandmother for her to remember everything he had lost, and the person he was about to lose. He wasn’t asking because he was worried she might change her mind. He was asking because this was his way of showing that, if she stayed, there were things for her in town. She would be needed. She would have a future.

“Yes, and?” she asked, crossing her arms over her chest to hide how her hands were shaking.

“And you said it yourself—with only

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