The Baby Shift- Nebraska by Becca Fanning

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

Chapter 6

Sadie had read enough paranormal romance to know what was going on. She should have realized it sooner, in fact. All that growling, those perfect golden-amber eyes, the searing hot skin—they were all signs that pointed toward the man whose lips had only moments ago been locked on hers was a shifter.

And honestly, Sadie didn’t care. She’d never, ever felt like that with anyone, never been with anyone who made her feel so sexy and alive and adored, and if Jack just so happened to shift into an animal every now and then, well, she’d roll with it. After all, how often did she meet sexy male romance authors who knew about the history of the Oregon Trail, the real history? Answer: never. No way was she passing that up.

“Jack?” she said, knocking on the bathroom door again. “Jack, I’m not freaked out. Just come out, okay, and we can talk.”

She heard him heave a deep sigh, and then the door cracked open and out walked Jack.

The look on his face melted her insides. He looked so penitent, his eyes cast downward, his shoulders hunched like he was preparing for rejection. Sadie couldn’t help it—she walked forward and wrapped her arms around him, squeezing him tight and trying to let him know with her touch that everything was going to be okay.

But Jack stayed stiff as a board, even when Sadie’s hands moved lower down his back, rubbing soft, soothing circles over the fur that covered the skin there. It was a little bristly, like a beard at the very beginning of its growing stages, and Sadie found she liked the slight roughness beneath her fingers. But when her hand dove deeper into the fur, Jack jerked back and out of her arms.

“You don’t have to do that,” he muttered, backing towards the bathroom door. “I know it’s weird.”

Sadie shrugged. “No weirder than any other guy with copious amounts of back hair. And at least yours serves a purpose. It keeps you warm. And…well, I can imagine it keeping me pretty warm, too,” she said, winking at Jack to show she was okay with all this.

Jack saw her wink but stayed weary, and so Sadie reached out and took his hand and led him back to the sofa. He followed stiffly, sitting on the very edge of the cushion, as far away from her as his small, two-seater couch would let him.

“Talk to me. Tell me what you’re feeling,” she implored. She tried not to wince when Jack tore his hand away and moved as far away from her as possible. She imagined he was used to rejection, to people viewing him as more of a freak than a being deserving of respect. She knew the feeling. You didn’t grow up mixed race in the middle of America without dealing with prejudice and ignorant assholes.

“I’m a bear,” he whispered, his voice harsh as he spat out the words. “A werebear. That’s why…this,” he said, motioning to the fur covering his front and back, his slightly stooped back, the claws that had replaced his fingernails.

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