Scottish Werebear: A Painful Dilemma: A BBW Bear Shifter Paranormal Romance (Scottish Werebears Book 5) by Lorelei Moone

Author:Lorelei Moone [Moone, Lorelei]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: eXplicitTales
Published: 2016-05-25T04:00:00+00:00

By the time Henry got home, Maggie was already sitting in her usual seat at the dinner table, waiting. It had been her turn to cook tonight; food was on the table.

"Where have you been?" she asked.

He waved away her question. "Oh, I was just talking to some of the families who are good candidates for Project Safeguard. Some needed a bit more convincing than what I could manage over the phone." He took off his coat and eagerly joined her. "This smells amazing."

Henry smiled at her, but she didn't reciprocate.

"Potatoes?" Maggie held up the dish in his direction.

"Thanks."

The food tasted good too. Running around all afternoon had made him hungry, so he didn't hesitate to load up his plate. As he started to eat, Maggie just observed him.

"So how many candidates have we got?" she asked finally.

He shrugged. "Most of my afternoon was spent just trying to convince one set of parents. Don't you miss the good old days, when our days were spent running after the bad guys?" Henry joked.

Maggie didn't crack even the smallest of smiles. "We're still doing that, running after bad guys, just more quietly."

"Right," Henry said. Spying on unsuspecting people who might have mistakenly fallen in love with the wrong person would have been a more accurate description.

"I feel like I hardly see you anymore, now that we're working apart every day," Maggie remarked.

Henry looked up, to find those sharp eyes of hers staring at him.

"Perhaps we can go away somewhere, just the two of us, this weekend?" she suggested.

Henry looked down at his plate again and loaded his fork with more meat.

"Actually, I was hoping to visit mom again. As you know, she's-"

"I know," Maggie interrupted him. "She's been having a hard time lately."

She picked up her half-full plate and put some of the potatoes back into the dish. Then she got up and carried it towards the kitchen.

"You're done?" Henry asked.

Maggie didn't respond.

Henry shrugged and continued eating. They'd had some version of this argument already the day before he'd driven up to Stirling to meet Gail. Why Maggie seemed so jealous of him spending time with his mother, he'd never understand. He never did understand what went on inside her head most of the time.

Once finished, he did his half of the work for the evening; tidying up the kitchen. Then, he wanted nothing more than to crash for the night.

Maggie was already asleep on her side of the bed, so he took care not to make too much noise.

As soon as he'd rested his head on the pillow, just a couple of little words turned his world up-side-down.

"Who's Gail?"

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