Shifter Origins by Aimee Easterling

Author:Aimee Easterling
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: werewolf, urban fantasy, paranormal romance, dragon shifter, jaguar, series starter
Publisher: Wetknee Books
Published: 2018-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

“I...” I STARTED TO say I was sorry to have led Ginger on. But I hadn’t led her on, at least not purposefully. I’d just assumed she enjoyed filling her position of power within our pack. I’d merely treated her like a girl friend.

A friend who’s a girl, that is. Not a girlfriend.

Ack! I was beginning to see why Ginger might have been confused by the whole situation.

“But you’re always flirting with guys,” I said finally, trying to understand. “That whole bar full of outpack males last night. Quill. Everyone.”

“I was just trying to get your attention,” the teenager muttered, eyes averted.

Abruptly, I felt sorry for her. Ginger was a pack princess and had almost certainly been cosseted her entire life. While I only had two additional years on her, my halfie heritage and the months I’d spent clan-less during my time as a troubled teenager had forced me to grow up fast. As a result, I couldn’t remember ever feeling as young as Ginger currently appeared.

So I apologized after all. “I’m sorry,” I said, reaching out to pull her into a hug, then changing my mind at the last minute and instead merely patting her shoulder. “It’s no reflection on you that I’m not interested, though. I just don’t swing that way.”

“You don’t swing that way?” Ginger flicked one painted nail through my untended hair, trailed the same fingertip down across my tattooed arms. “This and this and your so-called wardrobe, and you’re telling me you’re straight?”

I shrugged, hoping against hope that the trouble twin would laugh at my unintentional misrepresentation of my sexuality and let the whole misunderstanding slide. Yes, she’d lost face by hankering after someone who wasn’t available, but I’d lost face with my rough dress. So we were even, right?

Wrong.

“Not that it matters now,” Ginger said, taking a firm step away from me and picking up a shiny, metallic object that she must have dropped at our feet when attacking Hunter. “The real issue is that you don’t have the foggiest clue how to be an alpha. You trust this...this....” She shook her head furiously, clearly unable to come up with a slur strong enough to describe how she felt about the uber-alpha in front of her.

“Asshole?” Hunter suggested unhelpfully.

“Oh, thanks so much for pointing out how you self-identify,” Ginger said, verbally tearing into him for thinking he could complete her sentence.

But Hunter’s chosen moniker was only a side note in the scathing tear-down the trouble twin had in store for me. Thrusting the object into my hand, she demanded. “Look at this.”

Obediently, I turned the shiny thing over and over in my fingers, trying to understand what I was seeing. It resembled a twisted razor blade, but one that was sharp on all sides rather than on just a single surface. I nicked my finger merely examining it, and I wished one of us had been wearing clothes so we could put the treacherous object safely into a pocket before someone else got hurt.

Still, I had no idea what I was looking at.

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