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Luke jumped at the sound of his father’s voice. He sighed and rubbed his eyes.
“It’s something that I’m interested in. I can help people and keep active.”
“I need you here at the hardware store,” Carl insisted.
“No, you don’t, Dad. You have other people who can help you if it gets busy. And to be honest, I love you, but I really don’t want to work with you. I need some distance.”
“What if your mother and I did go on that vacation? Who would run the store then?”
“You have a manager who would do just fine.”
Carl opened his mouth to argue, but Luke said, “I don’t want to argue with you about this. You aren’t going to guilt me into doing something that I don’t want to do. The fire department is a good fit for me.”
Grumbling, his father crossed his arms and leaned across the counter.
“I was thinking about you and your girlfriend last night, and I remembered something,” Carl said. “I know who she is.”
“Okay. And.”
“I used to know her father. Her parents were bear shifters,” Carl announced, as though it was Earth shattering news.
“So?” Luke asked.
“Did you hear what I said? She is a bear shifter. Not a dragon shifter.”
Luke sighed heavily and said, “I don’t care what kind of shifter she is or if she was a mundane human. I like her for her personality, sense of humor, and everything else about her.”
“It is a disgrace for a bear shifter to be with a dragon shifter,” Carl insisted.
“You really need to pull your head out of your ass,” Luke insisted. “No one cares about that type of thing any more. Maybe a couple hundred years ago people thought that way, but not in today’s world.”
“There are a lot of people, especially dragon shifters, who do care and think that it’s important that dragon shifters stay with their own kind,” Carl said, stubbornly. “A dragon shifter being with a bear shifter is embarrassing.”
“To whom?”
“To your mother and me, for starters,” Carl said.
“I guess that you are going to have to be embarrassed then, and I don’t really care. I will see who I like. End of story,” Luke said.
“It’s your duty as our son and as a dragon shifter…” Carl began.
Luke’s eyes narrowed and he growled in his throat.
“Don’t even try to tell me about duty,” Luke snapped.
Carl took a step back, knowing that he had crossed the line.
He said, as though he had to get the last words in, “You need to think this situation through, logically, son, and not with your dick.”
Then, the older man turned and disappeared behind a shelf that he was stocking.
Luke didn’t know whether to laugh or strangle his father.
He was glad to find out that Jamie was a bear shifter. That would make it a lot easier for him to tell her that he was a dragon shifter. He had known that he would have to if their relationship got serious, but now he could tell her now and not have to worry about it.
Jamie, are you busy tonight?he texted.
No.
