Shifter's Desire (Fight or Flight Book 3) by Louise Cypress

Author:Louise Cypress [Cypress, Louise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

My finger hovered over the send button on my computer. I was seconds away from submitting Desperate Dawn to the USC film school scholarship committee. This was it, the moment I’d been waiting for, hundreds of hours of work boiled down into one chance to make my dreams come true.

My date with Cherry last night had been a hot mess, but the one good thing that had come out of it was that she’d built up my confidence. Cherry didn’t have any connection to Desperate Dawn, yet she still thought it was good. No, not good—exceptional. Hopefully, USC felt the same way. I took a deep breath and hit send.

“What are you doing, Rolf?” Mom hollered at me from the kitchen. “Aren’t you working at the swap meet today?”

Shoot. I was running late. “I’m leaving in ten minutes,” I called back. I closed my computer and checked the time. I still had an hour before Granddad expected me in National City. That wasn’t enough time to style my hair, but I could throw on a Padres hat and call it a day. I turned off my computer and got dressed in a hurry. Then I rushed to the kitchen for a quick breakfast.

Dory and Snowball weren’t awake yet, but Mom sat at the table wearing gray sweats and clutching a giant mug of coffee. She stared blankly at the Sunday paper without bothering to put on her reading glasses. There were dark circles under her eyes and her hair was greasy, like it needed to be washed.

“How are you doing, Mom?” I patted her on the shoulder.

Mom didn’t look up from the paper. “I’m fine.” She sipped her coffee. “Have you heard from Uncle Gabriel?”

“No, I haven’t talked to him since Friday when I came home from the movies and he was here at the house.”

“Oh. Right.” She ripped off a piece of toast.

“Have you heard from him?”

Mom shook her head.

I poured a bowl of Cheerios and shoveled a few bites into my mouth. “Did you guys break up again or something? I didn’t know you were back together.”

Mom’s nostrils flared. “We weren’t back together. We were never together in the first place.”

“But—”

“No. Please don’t.” Mom stood up from the table and walked over to the sink. She gazed out the window with a solemn expression. “Some things aren’t meant to be.”

I drained the last remnants of milk in my cereal bowl and thought about the situation. Dory was crazy for wanting Mom and Uncle Gabriel to get married and have a baby together. Even if there was a fifty-fifty chance of having another dog in the family, it wasn’t worth the stress. “You’re right,” I said as I loaded my bowl into the dishwasher. “Some relationships aren’t meant to be. Everyone knows how you feel about shifters, and Uncle Gabriel deserves to be with someone who accepts him for who he is.” I slammed the dishwasher shut, harder than I’d intended.

“You don’t get it, do you?” Mom dumped out her coffee into the sink.

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