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The entire situation was ridiculous. In Jamie’s world, if you had a crush on someone who didn’t reciprocate, you moved on to someone else or just dealt with having a crush.
However, Jamie and Alexis didn’t live in the same world. In Alexis’ universe, what Alexis wanted Alexis got, by whatever means were necessary.
Clara finally came in and got settled.
A minute after she had put her purse and coat away and had fixed herself a mocha, she looked at Jamie and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“I can’t hide anything from you, can I?”
Clara just grinned at Jamie.
“Yesterday, while I was out snow shoeing, a couple of hunters confronted me. At first, they accused me of being a shifter. Then, after I insisted that I wasn’t a shifter, they said that they knew who I was and that Alexis didn’t like me. They said that Alexis would reward them if they could make me disappear. At least one of them had a gun and pointed it right at me.”
Clara’s face turned white and she sat heavily on a stool behind the counter.
“Oh my heavens,” she gasped. “What happened?”
“Luke happened. He was flying around and just happened to see the altercation. He roasted the two men and did something with their bodies. I hid the tracks that were in the snow.”
“Are you okay?”
“I am. I know that Luke had to do what he did. The man actually shot at Luke and would have killed him, too, if he could have. It was self-defense and in defense of me.”
“I’m so sorry that you are having such a rough time just because one woman is throwing a temper tantrum because she isn’t getting her way.”
“I don’t get it,” Jamie said. “It’s so stupid. She is mad at me because she wants Luke.”
“She wants what she can’t have. Plain and simple. Alexis is throwing a major temper tantrum because she doesn’t understand that the world doesn’t revolve around her.”
“I can’t believe people get that mindset.”
“It’s not that uncommon. How many murderers have killed other people because they wanted something? Belle Guinness killed rich men to get their money. Susan Smith killed her two sons so that she could get with a man, and he had said that her kids were getting in the way of their relationship,” Clara said.
“What is wrong with people?” Jamie asked.
“It’s just a few people out of millions of great people,” Clara said. “It’s just the bad ones who get all the attention.”
After a minute, Clara asked, “Do you think that the other hunters or the Faisons are going to come after you for this?”
“No. There is no way that Walter and Parker would be able to tell anyone that they had me cornered. They never took out their phones to contact anyone. No one but you and Luke know that I was even on the mountain. Their bodies won’t be found. There is no way to connect their disappearance to me,” Jamie said. “Even if there was, it doesn’t matter because I learned my lesson. I’m never going back up those mountains alone again. It sucks that I have to be that way about a place I’ve explored my entire life.”
“I hate that for you. I’m sorry.”
After a few minutes, Clara said, “I have some news, too.”
Jamie looked at the huge smile on Clara’s face and she had an idea of what that news might be.
“Tell me,” Jamie said.
“I’m going to have a baby,” Clara announced.
Jamie jumped up and hugged her.
“I’m so happy for you,” Jamie said.
“Thank you. I’m going to have to see a shifter doctor in Colorado Springs. There aren’t any left in Ivy Springs anymore.”
Clara sighed and said, “I’m a little nervous. I have no idea what it’s like for a human to carry a shifter baby.”
