The Accidental Werewolf 2: Something About Harry (Accidentally Paranormal Novel) by Cassidy Dakota

Author:Cassidy, Dakota [Cassidy, Dakota]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2013-12-03T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

11

Mara burst through her cottage door, invigorated from her shift and Harry’s triumphant foray into his transformation. Harry burst in behind her, almost knocking her down, his laughter rich and hearty.

He grabbed her at the waist to steady her so she wouldn’t fall into Nina, and she found herself leaning back into her pretend boyfriend’s embrace.

Nina stood waiting for them in the middle of the living room, her eyes marred with worry. “When you two ass sniffers were out in that frozen tundra of the great beyond, all runnin’ around like you were auditioning for Wild Kingdom, did you see my Carl?”

“Wasn’t he with Darnell?” Harry asked, pulling his gloves from his hands and laying them on the bleached brick of her hearth.

Nina nodded, popping her lips. “Some kinda goddamn babysitter that demon is. He fell asleep and lost the little fucker.”

Harry began to pull his gloves back on. “We’ll go look for him.”

Mara almost sighed at his offer. Chivalry. It wasn’t dead.

Nina dismissed him with a wave. “Nah. Darnell’s out there looking. You stay here. After all that hills-are-alive bullshit, it bein’ your first time and all, you need to rest, and you need Short-Shot to stay and keep you from acting on any impulses.”

Mara winced—Harry wasn’t the only one who might need to fight impulses tonight. Thank goodness for her vivid imagination and a crazy apparatus called Bendy Bob.

Nina took long strides toward the door, leaving her image a blur. Popping open the front door, she stuck her head out and yelled, “Carl? Where the hell are you? Swear to sweet baby J, you’re gonna get grounded!”

At just that moment, Marty stuck her head in the kitchen door, strangely unlocked. Mara could have sworn she’d locked the back door before they’d left . . .

Marty peeked around the kitchen doorway, shaking her hair out with a wide smile. “Oh, Harry, you were magnificent tonight! Bravo!”

Harry took a small bow, clearly pleased with himself. “Thanks for your help. I appreciate the kindness you’ve extended to me—an outsider and all.”

Marty waved a white-gloved finger. “Oh, no, no, no. You’re family now, pal. Love it or leave it, you’re one of us. We just have to explain that to my husband.”

All the joy of her shift seeped right out of Mara’s body and was replaced with that jittery nervous twitch she was developing. “We have to tell him soon, Marty. I was a nervous wreck all day today. I’m a crappy liar. You know it, I know it, and my scent on Harry is only going to take us so far before the others will be able to distinguish. Besides, the guilt is eating me alive.”

“Then let it feed, young lady,” Marty said, crossing the room. “No way am I giving you up. The hell. I’m not letting your brother pull some sort of pack-law move on this. He did turn me into a werewolf, didn’t he? Oh, yeah, he did. So there’ll be no stone throwing in my family. He started this.

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