The Baby Shift- Maine by Becca Fanning

The Baby Shift- Maine by Becca Fanning

Author:Becca Fanning [Fanning, Becca]
Language: eng
Format: epub


It was already three days since the police had arrested the Floyds but Diana did not feel any better. After her mom's death, her father had become someone she could hardly recognize, but she still loved him dearly and the pain of the loss would not subside. There was another pain nudging he corners of her heart: Alexander Warren.

He hadn't called her or come to see her since the day she met him outside the Floyd's mansion. For some reason his negligence hurt her a great deal. Detective Jacob, who came to their mansion every day to provide updates on the ongoing investigations claimed Alex came to him every day trying to negotiate a release for his employers. Between that and running the oilfield in their absence, she guessed he could not create time to see her. Or he just did not care.

"The detective is here," Clarissa said peeping through the window. All four siblings were seated in their living room making plans for their father's funeral. The detective walked in a few seconds later. One glance at his face and Diana knew something was awfully wrong.

Jacob said, "I'm afraid I've got bad news for you. We had to let the Floyds out."

At first they stared at him in confusion. Then one by one, they began to bombard him with questions. He raised his voice so they could hear him in the uproar that followed. "We had no choice. Alexander Warren had us pinned to a corner."

At the mention of Alex's name, Diana's heart began to pound painfully in her chest. She felt a fearful chill run down her spine.

"What in the world could a site manager have over you?" Marko said.

Jacob avoided their eyes when he replied, "It would appear the police made a false assumption about the number of werelions in Rockville. Even now, we are taking a lot of heat from activists who feel the police are biased against shifters.”

He continued, "Alexander Warren came to me with new evidence. He's Jonathan Floyd's illegitimate son and a werelion himself. He threatened to go to the media with the news. The story would be if one werelion can slip through our radar, then more can, which defeats the whole foundation of the arrest. With the 'Fight Against Discrimination' activists sniffing around, the Rockville police cannot afford such bad press."

All Diana could do was stare at the detective with her lips slightly parted. She was already beginning to find it difficult to breathe. Alex was a Floyd all along; and even worse, a werelion. He was an embodiment of everything she hated and more. How could she have liked him? How could she have wanted him so bad? All around her she heard her siblings’ angry voices. Surely they were as angry as she was; however, they certainly weren't feeling her level of pain.

Minutes after detective Jacob Preston left, the siblings sat in silence, every one of them lost in his or her own thoughts. It was Derek who broke the silence first.



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