A Wifey for the Bad Boy(28)

“Stephen I have always been best friends, but things changed that night and our bond became even more than what we could even imagine. We hunted and we killed animals, until we figured out that we could use that excess energy in a more productive way. We found that sex a few hours before the change would keep us a little more docile. It prevented us from hunting to the extreme. It was the best way that we could do it without arousing suspicion from the locals.”

“I’m sorry, but I don’t know if I can accept this. It’s a little hard to digest.” She needed more than just words and they proved that by touching her shoulder in a reassuring way. There were no words spoken for some time, allowing Jasmine to finally realize that she had never had it so good. These guys treated her like a princess and even if they were wolf shifters that didn’t change the way that she felt.

They talked for some time and they even helped her take her luggage out and over to Steve’s place. It might be awkward seeing her husband every morning from across the street and it was decided that all of them, including Daniel, would move to Phoenix. Instead of waiting for the other shoe to drop from Brad, they left the house vacant, picked up a befuddled Daniel from high school and then took off to the airport. Their new life was waiting 1,000 miles away. She had instant family with two men that loved her and one stepson that did not know what he was. His change would happen on his 21st birthday and at that time, she would be there to help guide him with both Joseph and Steve.

They were sitting in the airplane with Daniel and Joseph behind Steve and Jasmine.

Steve took her hand and in a moment of complete chaos, he settled things down by producing two rings. He was proposing on behalf of himself and Joseph. “We want you to be part of our life and this is to seal our bond. We know that we can’t marry in the conventional sense, but this relationship is anything but conventional.” She took the rings; both attached to a necklace and placed it over her head, as a sign of her fidelity and trust.

“I don’t think that I could be any happier, and even though all of this happened very quickly, I don’t think I would want to change anything. Believe me, I’m not looking forward to the change, but I know that both of you would never let anything happen to me. I feel safe in both of your arms and I wouldn’t want to be anyplace else.” The snuggled up together and Jasmine placed her head against his chest and listened to his heartbeat and knew that she was finally where she was meant to be.



THE END





Some Like It Gruff


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Some Like It Gruff




Chapter 1

“You didn’t sign the lease?” Melinda asked her boyfriend, her throat constricting.

They had just finished getting all of their boxes out of the moving trucks and into their new living space in the basement. The lonely, rickety building they were now residing in used to be some kind of fancy inn a century ago—for a few rich folks in the states who wanted to see the beauty of the Alaskan wilderness without actually being within said wilderness. While the architecture itself was beautiful, the windows were coated with dust and cracks, and the wood paneling was splintered. The town was about a mile down the mountain, and although Melinda had been able to see a little bit of the town from one of the building’s windows, she still felt a dreadful weight of loneliness being inside the inn-apartment-place.

Travis chewed his gum and shrugged. Amongst him were their boxes, and in front of him was their peeved landlord.

“Travis?” Melinda said. She tried to sound stern, but she knew her fear had seeped into her tone.

“My credit’s not great. So what?” Travis said. “I knew once you saw this place, you’d be thrilled to live here! Besides, the guy’s still gonna let us live here.” He turned to the landlord and smacked the gruff man’s shoulder. “Right, dude?”

The landlord, Mr. Kane, glared at Travis. “So long as you sign the lease,” he repeated.

Travis turned to her and smiled. “See? It’s fine. You just gotta sign the lease.”

Melinda let out a shuddery sigh. She had thought leaving her stagnant life in Washington and starting a new adventure in Alaska with Travis would be… well, not this—not terrifying, and certainly not leaving her full of regret and doubt. Her chest tightened as she realized she was trapped with this decision; she had nowhere else she could go, and she wasn’t going to ask her judgmental family for help. They never liked Travis’s spontaneous nature, or hers, and they would love to mock her for this latest mistake of theirs.

She tugged on the collar of her shirt, it being too small for her large body. “Yes, fine.” She gave Mr. Kane a tight smile. “I’ll sign it.”