Prophecy Awakened by Tamar Sloan

Author:Tamar Sloan [Sloan, Tamar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jess Connors Publishing
Published: 2018-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

18

Noah

“Mom, have you seen Dad?”

My mother pokes her head around the kitchen doorway. “Out on the thinking chair, love.”

I should have guessed. I head out to the bench with the glorified name. It was one of Mitch’s first creations, put together with three planks and a handful of crooked nails. Dad had been so impressed and proud he’d promptly christened it his thinking chair and placed it in the backyard facing the giant pines.

Over the years he has practically worn a butt-shaped groove in it, sometimes using it when he wanted peace and quiet from raucous twin boys. Sometimes he would sit out there with Mom, his arm around her shoulders. Other times he would seek solitude after a tough shift. Like when Stash found the young skier, his cold body crumpled around a tree. Dad had sat there, solid and unmoving, well into the night.

I approach his still back, the massive shoulders bunched. Stash sits at his feet.

I haven’t come around him before he asks, “How did your presentation with Eden go?”

“Pretty good. She was really nervous.” Hands wringing, her white teeth worrying away her bottom lip so much that I felt sorry for it. So much that I wanted to reach across and pull it out, give its bruised surface a break.

I sit down beside him. “But then you could have knocked my hairy socks off when she contributed.” I’d taken a breath, looking back to my notes to see if I missed anything. And her clear voice had stepped in, adding a little garnish of her own. My eyes had flown to hers, astonished and impressed. Two more times it happened. My info dump, her accompaniment, our eyes meeting over a smile. By the end, we almost had a rhythm going.

“And in the end we got an A+.” She’d been so happy. She had skipped a little, moving toward me. Then contained herself. I hold my breath for those small moments when she lets herself go. Lets herself out.

“Well done, son. Sounds like the two of you make a good team.”

I put my hands on either side of my legs, pushing them into the timber beneath me, bracing my shoulders. “I’m taking Eden to the Glade tomorrow.”

His blue eyes turn to mine, and he has his serious face on. The muscles of his forehead, eyes, and mouth taut and still. “This is highly unusual, Noah.”

“I know.”

“We don’t always have rules for situations that we haven’t come across before.”

Which would be tough for a man who has lived by the law, upheld the law, enforced the law his whole life. Both human and Were. “I know.”

His eyes return to the towering pines that have surrounded our house for generations. He takes a deep breath, affording this decision the time it deserves.

“This feels right, Dad.” It feels more than right.

“As future Alpha, you’ll have to make these decisions for your pack.” His hand comes down to stroke Stash. “Decisions using not only your gut.”

As future Alpha. The title, its weight, seems odd.

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