Shameless Mate: A Second Chance Small Town Shifter Romance (Mystic River Shifters Book 4) by Delta James

Author:Delta James [James, Delta]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-22T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

NOVA

Leaving her aunt to enjoy the peace and solitude of the lodge, Nova headed back outside to her Jeep. One of the guards placed himself between her and her Jeep.

“Move,” she said.

“The alpha wants you to remain here.”

“You’ve been in this skulk long enough to know that I don’t much give a damn what the alpha wants. Now move.”

“I can’t do that.”

“You can and you will—one way or another. Look, I have had a monumentally shitty day. I need to talk to Mark, and I need to do that now. Either you get out of my way, or I will get you out of my way.”

“I don’t think you can do that,” he smirked.

What he wasn’t paying attention to was his stance. He was standing flat-footed with his feet about shoulder-width apart. With no warning of what she planned to do, Nova brought her foot up between his legs, smashing his balls up into his body cavity. The big man went down, clutching his nuts, as Nova threw a roundhouse punch to his back knocking him onto the ground.

“Not nice, Nova,” said Derek Grayson, the town’s deputy.

“Maybe not, but you must admit it, it was effective. I’m getting into my Jeep and going back to Doc Hadley’s clinic. I need to talk to Mark. My aunt, who I love very much, is in my lodge. I would appreciate it if you would look after her until this one,” she said pointing at the fallen fox-shifter who was still groaning and cupping himself, “gets back on his feet. If you like, I have some frozen peas inside. My aunt can get them for you. It might help him.”

Derek chuckled. “How about I drive you up and then come back and deal with this guy and your aunt?”

Nova thought for a moment and realized that allowing Derek to drive her might mitigate some of Mark’s annoyance with her for hurting one of his men. “I can live with that.”

“Good enough,” Derek came around to open the passenger-side door for her. Once he’d started the Jeep and headed back up the drive to head into Mystic River, he said, “I’m sorry about your father. I didn’t much care for him, but still, I know what that’s like. My old man is pretty much a douchebag.”

“It sucks, doesn’t it? I can’t figure out what I’m feeling. I’m sorry he’s dead, sort of. We were estranged and all we’ve done for years is bicker and snark at each other. And now he’s dead. I feel nothing. I know I should be sad, but what should I be sad about? The fact that he’s dead or that we never reconciled?”

“I have no idea. I’m a polar bear, we don’t really engage in that kind of deep thinking. But if you figure it out, let me know.”

They drove into town in relatively companionable silence. She didn’t know Derek well, but she rather suspected he was one of those ‘still waters run deep’ sort of guys. She was pretty sure he did more deep thinking than he let on.

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