TIGER'S EYE MYSTERIES VOLUME 1 by Alyssa Day
Author:Alyssa Day [Day, Alyssa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781948253116
Publisher: Holliday Publishing, LLC
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“This time, I’m going to get the son of a bitch,” Jack snarled, and seconds later he was gone.
“Jack—” But I was talking to an empty room. I ran over to the door and slammed it shut and then carefully peered out the side of the window, in case the shooter was still aiming at it—me—us. Jack was nothing but an orange and white blur bounding into the trees by the time I caught sight of him, and I closed my eyes and wished, hard, for him to be safe. And then I went back into Jeremiah’s office and retrieved the loaded gun I’d found in the top right drawer of his desk. I might not be a very good shot at target practice, but right now I had excellent motivation to hit whatever I aimed at. Then I walked back into the living room, turning lights off as I went, so I wouldn’t make such a good target.
Pulling a chair over against the wall facing the window, I listened, hard, for any sounds of somebody trying to sneak up on the house, but heard nothing. Those swiveling tiger ears would have come in handy right about then, but I’d have to settle for my own. Placing the gun carefully on my lap, I sat in the dark and waited, hoping that my massively drunk tiger wasn’t going to get himself killed, and trying not to think about what had just happened.
He’d kissed me.
He’d kissed me.
And it had been amazing.
I touched my mouth with my fingertips, still stunned, but then I put it away to think about later, when nobody was trying to kill us.
A long five minutes later, Jack called my name from out in the yard. I opened the door and went outside, but I brought the pistol with me. He was dragging a bearded, sullen-faced man in coveralls who had blood running down the side of his head, and what looked like a broken arm held against his chest.
“He’s hurt,” I said, stupidly, wondering how drunk Jack was going to handle this situation
“He’s lucky not to be dead,” Jack said, all the more terrifying for being so calm. He held out his hand for the gun, and I handed it to him, relieved to be free of it when I suddenly wasn’t sure I could actually use it on a human being. Especially an injured person, like this pathetic excuse for a man.
“You’re…okay?”
He glanced at me. “Shifting shape boosts the metabolism. The whiskey is completely out of my system, all the more bad luck for this asshole.”
Jack tossed the man down on the ground, where he promptly curled up in a ball, cradling his broken arm, and hurled a litany of vile threats at us. I realized a few moments into his rant that threats—vile or otherwise—didn’t have the same effect on me that they had in the past. Now, instead of scaring me, they were pissing me off.
I wasn’t sure what that said about me, and I didn’t have time to worry about it now, anyway.
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