The Wilde Crew: Ashton: A paranormal bear shifter romance (The Shifters of Wilde Ranch Book 3) by Kim Fox

Author:Kim Fox [Fox, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance, shifter love, bear shifters, wolf shifter, sex sexy hea, pnr, paranormal shifter books
Publisher: Kim Fox
Published: 2017-02-05T16:00:00+00:00

eight

“What do you mean, he’s gone?” Ashton asked, staring at Joan in shock.

He was sitting around the campfire with Rory, Rhett, and Joan. It had been the best day of his life and he sat down with a beer to finish the day off with his friends when they had dropped a bombshell on him.

Gunner was out of the crew.

“He had to go,” Rhett said, gazing into the crackling fire.

Ashton knew why but he asked anyway. “Why?”

Joan raised her legs onto her chair, pulling her knees into her chest like she was trying to be as small as possible. Ashton’s heart went out to her.

She hadn’t asked for any of this. Neither did Gunner or Rhett for that matter.

It was just a shitty situation and it was resolved in the only way that it could. Gunner had to go.

For his own sake as well as the crew’s.

Gunner’s love for Joan had been tearing him apart and as much as Ashton would miss him, he was happy that the lion shifter could finally move on with his life instead of wasting away on the Wilde Ranch, drowning in the horrible feeling of unrequited love.

“It’s better this way,” Rory said, sighing as he took a sip of his beer. “The poor guy was miserable.”

“He was making everybody miserable,” Rhett muttered.

“Rhett!” Joan said, shooting him a heated glare. “Can you not?”

Rhett shook his head as he stood up. “I have to go water the trees.”

Ashton noticed that the skin shifter had an extra little bounce in his step. Rhett had every reason to be happy that Gunner was gone. Those two never liked each other from day one and Gunner was in love with Rhett’s mate. Ashton was just relieved that this whole thing hadn’t ended in violence.

“I’m sorry, guys,” Joan whispered when Rhett had disappeared into the forest. She was still staring at the campfire with shell-shocked eyes. “All I wanted was to bring the crew together and I ended up ripping us apart. I’ve never been good at the whole family thing,” she said, her eyes starting to water. “I should have known I’d be just as bad with a crew.”

“Stop,” Rory said, resting a hand on her tiny knee. “You’re the best alpha I’ve ever had.”

“That’s not saying much,” Ashton said with a hollow laugh. “Your first alpha betrayed you when he let the military take you and your second alpha, Logan, was a psychopath.”

“Exactly,” Rory said, nodding with his cowboy hat on his head. “She’s the best.”

“You can do better,” Joan said with a sniff. “Alphas are supposed to keep crews together.”

“We’re the Wilde Crew,” Ashton said with a sad smile. “Fucking things up is our thing. We warned you about that before you came on board.”

Joan laughed. “You did. But I thought you were joking.”

“Not joking,” Rory said with a smile. “We’re the worst.”

Joan smiled but she still looked like she was hurting. Ashton took a sip of his beer and sat in Rhett’s empty seat beside her.

“You’re doing a great job,” he said, placing his hand on her other knee.

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