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“What do you want, Sher?” he said, trying to be diplomatic. “Why the hell are you sneaking around? Why can’t you just come out and talk like a normal person?”
She rolled her eyes at him, arms crossed over her breasts.
“I wanted to see Zara, but I didn’t want to see you.” She seethed at him. “It’s clear you’ve moved on lightning fast, though.”
Henry squeezed his fists together, trying to remain calm.
“You and I divorced mutually,” Henry said. “We aren’t mates, and that was the end of it. It was better for both of us.”
She snarled at him suddenly, coming towards him in a charge.
“That doesn’t mean I’m okay watching you play around with your human pet!” she bellowed at him.
It was Henry’s turn to get irritated, rolling his eyes at her.
“Then what exactly is it that you want me to do, Sher? You don’t want to be with me, yet you don’t want me to be with Kirsten?”
Her eyes inflamed at the sound of her name.
“Cut her loose,” she hissed. “Cut her loose, or I will do it for you.”
Henry’s mate was being threatened, and that wasn’t something he was going to take lightly.
He went for her, charging, then stopped right in front of his ex-wife, teeth bared and snarling. She didn’t move an inch.
“That woman is my mate, Sher,” he said through gritted teeth. “She has tamed the beast in me. You know as well as I do what finding a mate does to us. I won’t stand for you making threats against her.”
Sher smiled, a big, broad, ghoulish smile that frightened Henry in ways he’d never been frightened before. He couldn’t believe that the tiger shifter before him was the mother of his child.
“Then I hope you take what I am saying seriously,” she said, bending her head to him condescendingly. “Get rid of her. Or I will.”
Suddenly, Sher spun around, shifting midair into her tiger form. She was lightning fast and Henry had no idea what he was going to do with her if he managed to catch up. Would he take her as his prisoner? Would he kill her? The mother of his child?
So he let her go, standing there naked in the woods. He was a blend of emotions, from outraged, to worried, to a kind of empathy he’d only recently learned from Kirsten. Sher hadn’t found her mate, so perhaps, seeing him with his made her feel unwanted and rightfully angry with jealousy.
Henry returned to the bed and breakfast and found his phone and wallet in the back, where he shifted. He put on some clothes he had in his truck. He was hoping to find Kirsten and Zara there, safe and warm. He would take them back to his home that night, put the place on high alert, and figure out what to do from there.
THIRTY-THREE
HENRY
He knew that Sher was one hundred percent truthful in keeping up with her threat. He had known Sher for long enough to know that when she said something, she meant every single word of it. He didn’t like it.
That’s why he and Zara followed her on the drive back and planned to increase the security around his home. But he couldn’t feel safe, even in the one place he always had.
It scared him to no end, knowing that if she wanted to, she would hurt Kirsten because she felt like it. He also didn’t like how she viewed Kirsten. She made it seem like he had just freshly moved on from their love life, but he hadn’t.
He got her as a nanny. Falling in love wasn’t part of the plan, but he wasn’t going to argue that side. She was too focused on everything else to care.
He paced the front door for a few minutes, knowing that what he was about to do was really going to upset Kirsten. He was going to have to put the house on lockdown, and she was going to hate it. He knew she liked her fresh air and being outside, but he just couldn’t have that right now.
He had no idea what Sher would do, and he didn’t want to find out. So, he needed to keep both Kirsten and Zara safe until he could calm the situation.
He went inside to find Kirsten, who was sitting on the couch eating a banana. She looked at him and gave him a quick smile. “Hey, you’re back. Where did you go?”
I can’t tell her the truth. She’ll be frightened if she knew that Sher wanted her gone. Or she’d try to leave again.
But you can’t lie to her. If you’re putting her on lockdown, she has a right to know what’s happening.
