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“Is it awful to work here?” I asked, the words tumbling out of my mouth.
She blinked, surprised. “Not at all. Braxton is very good to us. He’ll be good to you, too. Don’t look so scared. You’re going to be okay.”
Everyone kept telling me that.
Jane walked to the closet and put a stack of clothes on the shelf for me.
“I’ll need your address so we can get the rest of your things,” she said. “And tell me if you need something specific. I’ll see if I can find it.”
It was getting hard to think. Nothing made sense, and everything happened so fast.
While I talked to Jane, telling her what she needed to know, my mind drifted to Braxton.
Despite my relief that he’d stopped, I wished he would come back.
6
BRAXTON
Uma sat in the living room, her feet tucked under her, shoes on the floor. She was reading a cozy mystery.
The sun slowly set, dusk creeping in, and it painted the valley in colors of blue and purple as the light drained away. I loved the way the world changed when the sun came and went. Everything looked different depending on where the light came from. I liked to think that life was like that, too.
“Did they get her stuff?” I asked.
“Yeah, I think so,” Uma said, closing her book. “Dagger is still out there, looking into a couple of things.”
“Good,” I said. My hands itched for a glass of something to drink, but I didn’t. Instead, I sat down opposite Uma. “What do you make of her?”
“What do you mean?” she asked.
I shrugged. “I don’t know… she’s a rabbit shifter. She’s an anomaly, something that doesn’t come along more than once every millennium or something. There’s got to be a catch, something to look out for with a shifter like her.”
“She’s different, that’s for sure,” Uma said, nodding. “The truth is, I only know what I learned from books and what my family has passed on, since I haven’t actually seen one up close like this. She’s still a person, you know.”
I snorted. “Thanks for that.” Uma was a fae, and she didn’t cower in fear when it came to my power and position as alpha. Sometimes, I was glad that we could talk like equals. Other times, it pissed me off that she wasn’t afraid of me and told me straight up how things were.
“I’m just saying, I know you own her and everything, but you shouldn’t underestimate her.”
I grunted in response.
“She’s a rabbit, which means she’ll unlock her abilities as she goes on.”
“What kind of abilities?” I asked.
“I don’t know. That’s the thing… I’ve heard that they have unique abilities. Every rabbit has something different. We won’t know what powers she has until they’re unlocked, and she starts to use them.”
“How does she unlock them?” I asked.
Uma offered me a leveled gaze.
“Losing her virginity.”
“What?”
“When a rabbit shifter has sex for the first time, her powers are unlocked. Or at least, that’s what the legends say.”
“Do we know that she’s a virgin?” I asked the fae.
