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My shift is over after this.
And I’ve spent the vast majority of it thinking about the man from earlier.
I mean, no one has a right to be that darn handsome.
He’d been tall and built like he was going to lay siege to a castle or something. Huge shoulders, giant biceps. Dark hair that looked like he’d done his best to tame it, but it curled and twisted around his face like crazy.
His eyes had been amber. Not just like brown.
Amber.
“Okay. What exactly happened before I got here?”
Jenni’s voice makes me jump. “Nothing.”
“Not nothing. What happened to the wolf who came in last night.”
I gulp. “Oh. Um. Someone came to get him. Apparently, he was at a different rescue, and he got out.”
Jenni’s eyebrows pinch together. “He got out?”
“Yeah. And the head of this new rescue came to get him.”
“You sound a little weird, Iris.”
I sigh. “I am. It was weird. I didn’t want to release the wolf, but he had all the right papers and everything.”
“I see. And this has bothered you all day, hasn’t it?”
I narrow my eyes at her. “No.”
“Clearly, I believe you,” she says with a smirk.
“Okay. It’s bothered me all day.”
“Do you feel like he’s going to like... hurt the wolf?”
I shake my head. “No, he seemed…”
I can’t say trustworthy, because I don’t know that.
But he definitely didn’t seem like he was going to harm the wolf.
“You don’t think it’s bothering you because you feel more than a little protective about the center?”
I give my friend my most harsh look.
She laughs. “You have to stop trying to do that. It’s like being glared at by a hobbit.”
“And the hobbits were the ones who brought down Mordor,” I snorted.
“Anyway. I think that you might be a little out of sorts because you don’t want someone else to have your role of the patron saint of wild creatures.”
“That’s not true!” I straighten and put my hands on my hips. “I would be happy to have another rescue in town!”
“You’d be happy, as long as you’re still allowed to be Snow White, right?”
“I…” my mouth snaps closed.
