Shifter Origins (Series-Starter Shifter Variety Packs Book 1) by Aimee Easterling

Author:Aimee Easterling [Easterling, Aimee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: werewolf, urban fantasy, Paranormal romance, dragon shifter, jaguar, series starter
Publisher: Wetknee Books
Published: 2018-04-28T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

For fifteen interminable seconds, my body rebelled against explicit instructions to stay calm, cool, and collected. My chest heaved, my cheeks reddened, and I panted like a sprinter stuck at mile five of a marathon as I attempted to wrap my mind around the vision outside my shop. Had Sebastien really been this handsome when I ran into him the previous night?

Struggling to breathe against the vise-like pressure in my chest, I found myself tracing the human’s outline with hungry eyes. Sunlight glinted against jet-black hair and the lines of Sebastien’s jaw were so sharp that my hand rose without permission in an effort to stroke his stubbled chin. The human’s chest was as broad as any werewolf’s, his stance calm and confident. But it was his eyes that snagged my attention and drew me in further yet.

There were mysteries hidden within those dark depths. A flicker of pain, a hint of regret. Mostly, though, the newcomer’s face told me what I desperately wanted to hear—that Sebastien considered me every bit as enticing as I found him.

The muffled tinkle of the bell above the door broke through my reverie, then hard-soled shoes rang out across intervening tiles. “Is it too late to snag a coffee?” Sebastien asked, gaze rising to the clock above my head before his eyes pierced mine once more.

The cafe was supposed to close in five minutes, but I busied my hands filling a cup anyway. Better working than reaching out and pulling this human close enough to sniff the tantalizing aroma emanating from the crook of his neck....

“Were you delivering somebody to campus this afternoon?” I asked, interrupting thoughts that I couldn’t afford to have flow any further. Glancing over one shoulder, I was proud of the fact that my voice remained steady despite my heart continuing to beat a staccato in my chest.

Unfortunately, I was paying more attention to Sebastien’s anticipated answer than to the hot liquid nearing the top of the cup. Because just as an expression I didn’t entirely understand wafted across Sebastien’s chiseled countenance, coffee overflowed across my fingers, stinging tender flesh.

“Ow!” I exclaimed, barely managing to take four steps to the sink before the cup slipped and spilled across the stainless-steel expanse. So much for coffee.

Then Sebastien was there beside me. The fabric of his sports coat brushed against my arm and his scent enfolded me as the male reached across my body to turn on the cold-water tap. Before I knew what was happening, warm fingers were nudging my wound beneath the soothing flow, human contact doing more than icy water to dull my pain.

I could have stood like that for hours, soaking up Sebastien’s intoxicating aroma like the scent of a baking cake. But the coffee hadn’t been quite hot enough to truly burn. And if I let this go on for much longer, my wolf was going to take the lead and do something we’d later regret.

We won’t regret anything, my inner animal murmured even as I slipped out from beneath Sebastien’s arm and took two long steps back.

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