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“She was forever pissing me off.Did you know that she wanted me to get a job in the summer months we were off from school?Why should I have to work when Dad was making all kinds of money?”He didn’t say anything.“You should get your facts right before you go spouting off shit you have no idea about.”
“You argued with her that day.Telling her that you weren’t going to work unless she did.She told you that she had a hard enough job just raising the three of you.”That stunned him to silence.But not Guy.“She slapped you, too.Told you that you were going to have respect for her in her home.”
“No.”Shawn was sure that he couldn’t hear him, as it was just a whispered sound.But he’d forgotten he was a shifter and knew that they could hear better than most.“You couldn’t know those things.No one knows what happened that day but she and I.”
“I’m talking to her right now, Shawn.Do you want to know what else she has to say?She said that you and your sister were brats from the time she brought you home from the hospital and that your dad gave in to you whenever you went to him.But that didn’t last forever, did it?He started listening to Belinda after you got into trouble at school when you accused my brother of cheating off of you.That didn’t work out so well for you either, did it?”
“You shut your mouth.I told you that you don’t know what you’re talking about.Shut up before I come after you.”The tightening of the air around him was all the warning that he got before he was shoved into the snowy embankment with a giant dog on his chest.The claws of the thing were digging deeply into his chest, and he cried out with the pain.“Get off me, you stupid mutt.I’m going to sue your ass for this.I swear it.”
The snarl had his dick shrink and curl around his ass.It wasn’t a pleasant feeling, but he knew that it could have been worse.When the thing nipped at his hand that he was using to push him off with, then there was the lick to his face.
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Guy wanted to rip out his throat and be done with him.But Belinda was begging him to back off and not kill him.What she said was that he wasn’t worth it to go to prison for killing him.But he did have a connection with him now, and he planned to use it to do everything he could to make him regret pissing him off.
“What will Amber say when you turn up at the house naked as the day you were born?”For some reason, they had a good connection too, and he told Belinda that he’d be clothed because of him being her mate.“I wish tigers had that.It would have been nice to have had a few times when I was in the yard with their father.”
“I don’t want to know, thanks.”She laughed and told him that Amber wanted him to come home.“I suppose you told her that I was with her brother, too.”
“No, I can’t tell her anything.It’s sort of my fault that you had to shift, and I’ll take full blamefor that.Oh, how I wish I had been able to shift as a ghost.That’s something that I miss a great deal.I’m glad that the other two were never able to shift.I think it saved a lot of people’s lives by them not being able to shift into a tiger.”She looked around, wondering why she was even out here.“Let him go, and let’s get back home.I’ve had enough memories…do you suppose that if you were able to call to my husband, he’d remember who killed him and why?I know that the robber killed him, but…I guess that’s who we should be calling back.To see if he remembers the kids from the ones who hired him.It would be something that we can look into when you let him go and come back with me.”
Guy backed away from Shawn, but not before marking him again.The man deserved whatever would come to him, and he hoped that his luck had finally run out.To think that he and his sister had killed both their parents made him sort of sick.Never once in all their life did the six of them ever think about killing their parents.Not that they didn’t try to kill them whenever the chance came around.
Shifting back to himself, he wished that he’d thought of pissing on Shawn while he’d been his wolf.Making his way back to the house, he got into his car and decided that he’d had enough playing around for one night.He wanted to go home and talk to Amber more.And try his best not to piss her off again.But she surely was beautiful when she got upset.
“You really going to talk to your brothers about the two of them?I’d hate for someone to get hurt because you don’t like people.”He said he’d contact them all in the morning and let them know that Amber had found him and that her family was sniffing around, trying to get killed.“That’s about the way that it is, too.They’re going to keep fucking with the wrong man until they get themselves killed.Especially Shawn.He’s ten kinds of stubborn.”
“I have a connection with him now, so he won’t be able to sneak up on me without me knowing.I just have to establish one with Amber so I can talk to her too.”She thought that was a good idea as well.“I have them on occasion.Good ideas, I mean.”
“If you had too many of them, people would label you a smart ass, and then where would you be?”He said he was trying to be nice.“I’m happy for you on that.I hope you can do it enough that Amber doesn’t want to brain you any more than she did when you left.”
He’d suggested that Amber get online and order herself some things to be delivered, like a coat, boots, and other warmer gear.When he’d told her to have them mailed to his house, she asked him what about her own home, and he told her to sell it.That was a big mistake.She’d only just got it from the courts, and here he was suggesting that she sell it off.Well, he’d told her to get rid of it, but that shouldn’t matter.He was trying to make sense of their relationship still.
It was difficult for him to remember not to take his bad mood about people out on Amber.She would take it for only so long before she would blow up at him and yell at him.He was stunned when she did that.Not even his brothers had stood up to him when he’d been rude to them.And that was saying a great deal.He’d been pissing them off a lot longer than he had been Amber.
When he got back to his house, the aroma coming from the kitchen was something that he’d not smelled in a good long time.Steaks were being cooked in the kitchen, and he was suddenly starving to death.Going to see what was going on, Amber was setting the table in the big kitchen and telling him to wipe his feet.
It was on the tip of his tongue to tell her to back off; it was his home, but he caught himself just in time.As he was making sure that there wasn’t any snow on his boots, he hung up his coat as well.There was no point in pissing her off even more.
Dinner was delicious and made more so because he hadn’t had to cook.He never minded cleaning up, but cooking for him was a dirty chore, and he’d rather clean up dishes from a busy restaurant than have to cook for himself.Maybe, he thought, it would be nicer to cook for two with him and Amber than just himself.He’d have to give it a try sometime if she stayed with him.
They didn’t know what they were doing.He knew that she’d be safer in his house.It was larger and had a solid front gate that no one could get through unless he wanted them to.Tomorrow, he was going to hire someone to be out there all the time, and that would keep away all the people he had only just realized.A win-win for him.
“I’ll clean up.”She told him that was good and she stood up to help him clean the table off.“I got this.You should go into the living room and have a nice seat while I do this.You cooked, which I hate doing by the way, and I’ll clean up.I haven’t hired a staff yet, as I was hoping to avoid it, but the house is just too much for one person to take care of and get anything done.And I have to work.”
“I do as well.”He explained to her that he really did need to work, to get the people in his mind to leave him alone.While she laughed at him, he smiled.No one had ever laughed at him in a long time, either.“I want to work.I know you have money, but that’s yours.I have my own too.To make it last, I need to have a job.Besides, I don’t think that I can just be a stay-at-home housewife either.It would drive me crazy.”
“I don’t want to start another fight with you, but my money is now all yours.What you have is yours too.But I will be putting your name on all that I own.Which is a bit more than my family knows about.”She asked him if they knew that he wrote.“No.I suppose I should get around to telling them that, too.It’s been hard on me to tell them much of anything, what with me being such a prick all the time.”
“If you expect me to disagree with you about you being a prick, I’m not going to do it.You’ve been rude to me since we met.I know you’re trying, but you have a long way to go.”He nodded, trying his best not to let her words hurt him.And it did.Right in the heart.“Can I go with you when you talk to Lica?I wanted to talk to him about my mom and dad to see if he can help you, because it’s doubtful that you’ll ask for help in finding their killers.”
“I’m not good at that, either.”Guy also admitted that he didn’t know how to approach the subject of him being an author either.“I’ve never told anyone.I know that Lica has a couple of my books on his shelf, and you have no idea how much I do want to know and don’t want to know if he liked them or not.”
“I can understand that.I don’t know that I’d want to know either.But it’s time you got some help with your emotions too, and what better people to let you know than those that love you.”He asked her if she thought that they would tell him when he was being rude.Not that they didn’t do that already.“I’m sure from what I know of them, they’ll be a good deal nicer than you’ve been to them.We can only hope that you survive telling them what you think from now on.They might get it into their head to knock you around a bit.”
“I think I would welcome that to having my head bashed in.There is no telling what I might see if someone were to do that again to me.”She laughed, and he decided that it was a sound that he could get used to.Yes, he thought, he could get used to hearing her laughter all the time.
Chapter 4
