Parker's Honor (Prospect Springs Shifters Book 2) by Mandy M. Roth

Author:Mandy M. Roth [Roth, Mandy M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Raven Books
Published: 2013-11-16T18:30:00+00:00

6

Mary Sue glanced at something behind Lynn and then smiled. It was warm and inviting. “I remember having a similar discussion with your mother when you were maybe ten or so. She was worried about you. Since I have no daughters, there is nothing you could have done in my eyes that wasn’t perfect. I told her there are men who would value what you can do and the fact you’re more than a pretty face. Even cited my oldest son as an example to her. He’d only just gone off and joined the World Guards some two years prior to that, and his letters home both excited me and broke my heart.” She took a deep breath. “He was seeing the galaxy but learning hard lessons in the process. Learning that while many, many women out there will toss their legs open for a handsome face and a muscled body, come morning light, their only purpose was served and there was nothing left to talk about with them. Made for a lonely time for him, regardless how many beds he warmed.”

Lynn had never really thought about it from a man’s point of view. “I suppose it would be lonely.”

“Have you someone special in your life, Honor?”

“L-Lynn, please, I go by Lynn.”

“Of course,” Mary Sue corrected. “Do you have a special man?”

“No, ma’am.”

“Child, have you ever?”

Her throat grew dry. “No, ma’am. Daddy and Trust were the only men in my life. Then it was Cole. Even though he’s no relation, nothing has ever happened between us. He’s very brotherly to me and that works well for us.”

Mary Sue touched Lynn’s cheek. “You live in fear of a man being like Darby. Don’t you?”

She didn’t wait for Lynn to answer.

“Child, whatever drove him to be that monster isn’t something other men possess.”

“You’re right,” Lynn whispered. “It was my fault. I did it to Darby. When he realized I was a magik, he thought that was the reason Daddy kept telling him no. That because he wasn’t a supernatural too, that Daddy didn’t approve of the union. But it had nothing to do with that. Darby didn’t see it that way, so he decided to make himself one.”

Mary Sue gasped. “Child, are you saying he went out and found one of the quacks who push snake oil charms and dangerous means of making a person more than they are.”

“Yes.”

The look of horror on Mary Sue’s face was too much for Lynn. She embraced the woman and gave a gentle hug.

“It’s in the past. Only every once in a while do I close my eyes and see it all again. And Cole did wonders for teaching me that born shifters and shifters who have been that way for a long time aren’t like Darby. They possess more control over their beasts.”

Mary Sue cried. “Y-You watched a shifter male butcher your family?”

Lynn remained silent. There was really nothing she could add to that. Mary Sue cried harder. Lynn hugged her more, trying to calm the woman who had been close to her mother.

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