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“Do you want me to kick him in the pants and see if that helps?” Clara offered.
“No, thanks,” Lucy said, laughing. “I appreciate the offer, though.”
Just then, Alexis blew into the café like a hurricane.
She pranced up to the counter and pursed her lips at Clara. She pointed at Clara and said, “You knew that Jamie was a bear shifter.”
“I have no idea what you are talking about. There is no such thing as a shifter,” Clara said, narrowing her eyes at Alexis. “And if you plan on keeping that finger you had better get it out of my face.”
Alexis lowered her arm but continued to stare at Clara.
“You guys were best friends. There is no way in the world that you didn’t know that she was a shifter.”
“You know that people in this town don’t talk about things like that, even if she was a shifter, which I don’t believe in,” Clara said.
“You know, where I come from, regular humans and shifters get along just fine,” Lucy said. “As a matter of fact, we have a couple of vampire families who live in the area. I don’t understand what the big deal is.”
Alexis gasped as she spun around to face Lucy.
“Shifters are evil creatures and destroy everything that they get their hands on,” she exclaimed.
“Not where I come from,” Lucy said. “The shifters I know are perfectly nice individuals.”
“I really doubt that. They must have you fooled,” Alexis said.
She turned back to Clara and said, “We know that you have shifter friends. We’ll be watching you.”
Then, she flounced out the door just as flamboyantly as she came in.
“You have to be very careful,” Clara said. “Alexis and her brothers are very dangerous. They will go after you even if you aren’t a shifter if you get in their crosshairs. They targeted Jamie before they knew that she was a shifter.”
“Why don’t all the shifters just stand up against them? They would back down, just like any bully.”
Clara sighed heavily and said, “It’s not that easy.”
Lucy disagreed, but kept her mouth shut. She didn’t live here and this wasn’t her fight.
Clara looked at Lucy with a hard searching look.
“What kind of shifter are you?”
Lucy replied, “It’s that obvious, huh? I’m a wolf shifter.”
“Be very, very careful,” Clara said. “This is a very dangerous place for you.”
A chill ran down Lucy’s spine in spite of herself.
9
Micah
Micah groaned when his phone buzzed early the next morning. He was planning on sleeping in before deciding how he was going to spend the rest of his day. After all, he was on vacation, and it was likely the last one he was going to get in a very long time.
“Dean,” Micah said, surprised. “What are you doing up so early?”
“I’m hungry and I figured that you might be, too,” Dean said. “Do you want to have breakfast together?”
In spite of the fact that they were both trying to win Lucy’s heart, they were still friends, and Micah didn’t have any other plans.
