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“You need to be strong, can you do that for him?” Alec asked.
“I can.” She lifted her chin and set her jaw in a look of pure determination.
“Good.” Alec stood. “Your mother asked that you go to Delilah’s. You’ll stay with her until your dad is recovered.”
Megan nodded. “Thank you.”
“Go on, now, they’re expecting you.”
Megan gave me a weak smile before taking off at a run. I waited until she was out of sight before turning to Alec. He was unexpectedly gentle and sweet with the girl. It was going to be harder than I thought to convince myself that I should avoid him.
“Is he really going to be okay?” I wanted to ask for details about what happened to Megan’s dad, but I wasn’t sure it was my place.
“I hope so,” he said.
“You were very good with her,” I said.
“Megan’s a good kid.”
“She seems sweet,” I agreed.
“We need to talk,” he said, his tone serious.
“Oh?”
“You’re still covered in blood.” His eyes swept over me. “Did Sheila not show you where the lake is?”
“Megan did. There were kids playing there, though. Not sure it’s the best time to wash up,” I said.
“They won’t be there now,” he said. “It’s near lunch.”
“What did you want to talk to me about?” I asked, worried he was trying to change the subject.
“Alec, you ready?”
I turned to see a group of shifters walking toward us.
“Going somewhere?” I asked.
“I’ll be back soon,” he said.
“Um, no. You can’t go. You don’t just drop thewe need to talkon someone then take off.” My hands were on my hips and I was pissed that he would do that. “Seriously. Not cool.”
The group stopped as they approached us and a large shifter with huge sideburns and long dark hair made his way toward Alec. “We’re ready when you are.”
“We’ll talk later,” Alec said. “In the meantime, there’s a shower that works in my cabin if you want to use it.”
He walked away, joining the group of shifters. A few of them glanced at me before turning around and walking away.
What the fuck was going on here? He tells me he needs to talk and then takes off with the guys? I knew Alec didn’t owe me anything. In fact, I was the one who owed him. He’d saved my life and I was crazy grateful for the shoes. But I’d just seen a shifter bleeding out and Alec was acting strange.
Something was going on here but I wasn’t sure if it was nefarious. Either way, there was no way I was going to Alec’s cabin to use his shower. Sure, a shower sounded like pretty much the best thing ever at the moment, but I’d figure out how to find the lake on my own.
I headed back in the direction I’d gone with Megan, but it didn’t take me long to realize I wasn’t going to find it without help. Fuck. Why was I so bad at navigation? My sense of direction was shit. I wasn’t going to find the lake. But I probably could find Sheila’s tent. I turned around and managed to find my way back to camp and headed for Sheila’s. As I walked there, I couldn’t help but wonder what I’d really gotten myself into.
My mind was a tangled mess as I weighed the limited information for pros and cons. There was so much I didn’t know about my new friends. I’d been warned my whole life about how dangerous feral shifters were, but I wasn’t seeing any signs of them being a threat.
None of them had once hurt me. That was more than most of the people I’d known in my old life. Even those I was related to by blood. While my own mother had never physically harmed me, she didn’t lift a finger to help, either. What kind of mother did that?
