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It wasn’t.
“We won’t be shocked, even if you have a question about a new kink we haven’t heard of, or if you found an even more interesting book than that one about the alpha who wanted to mark his mate, or if you need to ask questions about diaper cream.”
As Alick looked up at the ceiling like he was praying—probably for Boyd not to kill them—I took a breath and tried to figure out where reality had gone.
Had I accidentally ended up in a parallel dimension in the Blue Ridge Mountains?
That was really the only logical explanation for a lot of what I was going through, and oddly enough, it made me feel better.
“Thank you, Kenzie.” Yes, manners, smiles, and promises not to tell his Daddy what he’d done went a long way. “I appreciate that and I’ll come to you when I’m ready.”
He smiled.
Thank God.
But for goodness’ sake…what would be weirder than an alpha werewolf who wanted to pee on his mate?
No. I wasn’t going to ask.
I was going to offer tea and cookies until they went home and I could plan which questions to ask next time. I needed easy ones that wouldn’t be too surprising when they actually answered them.
Having friends was turning out to be harder than I’d expected.
Chapter 16
Boyd
I wasn’t sure if I should apologize to Stefan for the guys descending on him or tell him how proud I was that he’d handled the situation so perfectly.
A tea party and cookies…he was brilliant.
I’d decided on both as I walked into the library right before he usually took lunch. However, I came to a dead stop when I realized the fucking place was packed.
What the hell?
Wednesday was usually one of the slowest days of the week. That was why the library was only open half the day. I’d be the first to admit the library had a weird schedule, but we were a small town and Stefan really didn’t want to hire any more people.
For years, the library hadn’t been open all day Wednesday because there was no call for it. There was a local moms’ coffee group that would have breakfast at the diner and then they’d walk over to the library for story time, but that was about it.
Stefan had jazzed that up a bit because I’d seen an invoice for puppets and a few things like that, but there was no reason for half the town to be wandering around.
There were even people I knew hadn’t opened a book in years milling around.
And I knew Kenzie didn’t normally go there on Wednesdays, but even he was making circles around the circulation desk. I couldn’t decide if he was protecting Stefan from the crowd or pretending he was flying.
It could’ve gone either way until I saw him politely steer one of our older town residents away from the desk. “No, you’re not allowed to bug him. Mr. Librarian is working, and unless you’re checking out a book, you have to find something else to do.”
Were they all randomly stalking Stefan to see…something?
To ask something?
What were the nosy idiots doing?
Stefan didn’t seem stressed, so that kept some of my frustration at a manageable level. But everyone who glanced in my direction got a good glare…especially the ones who clearly didn’t have a library book in hand. They each backed away from the desk but were too nosy to actually leave the building.
Somehow being nosy made everyone entirely too brave.
Even some of the fucking mages.
