Page 35 of Fated Redemption
“After a while it became apparent that this tiny human had adopted us, but we quickly figured out she wasn’t like the normal vapid humans at school. One day we were walking across the quad after lunch when Rebecca here spots the swim team harassing this smaller looking guy.
As we get closer we hear that they are calling him names like “Queer Boy” and “Butt Boy.” The cheerleaders are making up gay-bashing cheers and heckling too. The poor kid looked devastated, crying and trying to pick up his books as they kept swatting them out of his hands.
Before Cassie and I could do anything, Tiny Tim over here marches right up to the swim captain and kicks him as hard as she can in the shins. She starts ranting and raving about how big of a jerk he is and how would he like it if someone made fun of him. That’s when he loses his temper and open palm slaps her across the face. Of course she weighs like two pounds so she goes flying.
Cassandra had to restrain Camille, her hands had shifted to claws, so I was the one who went to defend Rebecca, that’s when I saw it for the first time. When she looked up, she wasn’t crying or even breathing hard. She stared down the swim captain, I mean stared him down. Everyone had gotten quiet, and by this time, her just staring at him was starting to freak them out.
She was acting so much like a shifter I thought for sure we had pegged her wrong. The swim captain’s nerve broke and he ran. He freaking ran from her, of course the rest of the team followed and the crowd broke up. That’s when I saw what he had seen.”
“Oh Abby really.” Rebecca sounded exasperated.
“No, seriously. It was the first time I ever saw your ‘baby psycho eyes,’ but not the last.” Abby laughed.
“I do not have baby psycho eyes!” Rebecca protested.
“Yes, you do,” Sebastian, Kate and Nic disagreed.
“See, they know you too, now hush, I’m getting to the good part.” Abby turned back to the crowd.
Rhys leaned forward, putting his elbows on his knees. This was getting good.
“So, we don’t see munchkin here for like a week. Then, one day she says, ‘I think we should go to the swim meet.’ Of course I’m like, ‘Oh God, what has she done and are the batteries in my video camera charged?’
We all go to the swim meet and this one here keeps checking her watch. All of a sudden the lights go out and all around the pool we see faint glowing objects moving around. Then Rebecca stands up and with a lung capacity I didn’t think someone her size had she yelled, ‘Glow in the dark anal lube!’
She had swapped out her invention to whatever they kept in their sports bags. The entire crowd goes nuts and the lights come on, just in time to see the mortified faces of the entire swim team. But, she’s not done yet right. She made sure the swim team captain could see her and she screams, ‘Make fun of homosexuals now, asshole!’
The guys ran to the locker room leaving the girls there crying looking absolutely destroyed. When they saw the guys bolt, leaving them alone, they ran from the heckling crowd to the girls’ locker room. That was when we knew that whether shecould shift or not this woman right here, was more dangerous than most shifters. We’ve loved her ever since.” Abby blew kisses at Rebecca, who blew them back.
Rian shook his head. “Why were the girls destroyed? I mean no one likes their business put out there but it’s not that same as being outed, right?” he asked.
Rebecca began laughing hysterically.
“Because it wasn’t their asses lighting up like Christmas trees, they had glow-in-the-dark lipstick,” Abby said between laughing fits.
Rian and Kate gasped.
“Oh my,” Ma murmured.
“Oh my god, that’s terrible and hilarious at the same time. Can I say again, how much I love you?” Rhys managed to get out. He hadn’t laughed this hard in decades.
“Love you too, Rhys,” Rebecca said, wiping her eyes.
“Who loves my mate, and what’s so funny?” Moe asked, walking into the diner.
“God, Moe you missed one of the funniest stories I’ve heard in a long time.” Rhys used the back of his hand to wipe his eyes.
When he looked up his mate’s nostrils were flaring and raw sexual desire burned in them. Rhys could smell that Moe was seriously aroused. He was about to stand and go to his mate when Moe walked past him to Abby. He scooped her up. She wrapped her legs around his waist and he didn’t stop his forward advance until he had her pinned against the diner wall. Behind him he could faintly hear the others yelling directions.
“Rian, Damian, Sebastian, girls, get the babies to Baby Central. There’s no telling how this thing will turn out. They don’t need to see mating sex this young,” Kate said, jumping to her feet.
Aleks handed Aidhan off to Ma. They got the babies to Baby Central and shut the door.
Rhys couldn’t breathe. He had lost his mate. Oh god, why had Fate saved him? It would have been more merciful if he had been killed a month ago. He felt arms wrap around him from behind.
“If she is his mate, she’s yours too, Rhys. You haven’t lost him,” Kate whispered in his ear.
He looked up at her sharply. “Was I that easy to read?” he asked.
