Page 34 of A Swan’s Love Song

“LaMarkus, please. Things are still new.”

Donald leaned across the meeting table. “What’s new? What did I miss?”

LaMarkus regarded Donald. “Avi, and the new swan shifter Kellan brought to the Valley, are

mates.”

“For real?” Chance joined the conversation. “Hey, man. Congrats. That’s awesome news.”

Small towns. Gotta love ‘em.

“Thanks. We’re very happy.”

By the same token, he was proud that Sean was his. It was only that Avi knew how shy and

uncomfortable Sean got when all the attention was on him. After only two weeks of living together,

Avi felt as if he knew his omega inside and out.

He snickered to himself. In more ways than one.

After assuring Sean that he wouldn’t mind if they waited to move in together so that Sean could

adjust to their new status, Avi had reached the conclusion that all he was doing was hurting Sean’s

feelings again. In truth, he was glad that Sean had insisted.

“Sorry I’m late, gentlemen.” Everyone came to attention as Rosemary strolled into the room.

She did indeed have a box that Avi knew contained one of the Inn’s decadent pies. “When we take our

break, we can dig in.” She set the pie down next to the coffeemaker then took a seat at the head of the

table. She might no longer be mayor, but she and her departed husband had founded the town, and it

was still her baby. Rosemary rubbed her hands together. “Now, what’s first on the agenda?”

They opened with a discussion of the Fourth of July spectacular. The one-day event would be

filled with plenty of fun activities, food and entertainment—but also held the potential of getting too

rowdy as the day wore on and more beer was polished off. That, combined with the grand fireworks

display at the end of the night, meant making sure they had enough security on hand a vital part of the

celebration. Not only that, but as fire chief, his presence would be required throughout the day to

monitor those who might decide to provide their own unsanctioned spectacular.

“All right, LaMarkus. I think we have that settled. Gentlemen, anything else before we move

on?” Rosemary glanced around the table. Everyone shook their head then she gave a sharp nod. “Fine.

Then I’d like to bring something up that’s of great concern. As you know, this town means everything

to me, it’s my life. With that in mind, I find it very disturbing that a threat against two of our residents

still exists out in the world. We had quite a scare already with Mateo, and I don’t want anything like