Page 17 of Fire in Cabin 27
“There you are. Where have you been?” A woman in a giant fur coat wearing far too much make-up bellowed as she let herself in. “Who is this?”
“Hello, Mother,” Juni rolled his eyes. “Kyson, this is my mother, Cassandra Winters. Mother, this is my mate, Kyson.”
“Mate? I didn’t approve of this. What family are you from? We need to run a background check on him first.” I’d barely met the woman and was already done with her. Poor Juni, no wonder he ran away.
“You’ll do no such thing. We’ve mated. I wear his mark and now I’m moving in with him. We’re leaving in the morning.” Juni wasn’t taking her crap and had he needed us, our dragon would’ve taken over. He was ready and waiting to pounce.
I want to be out of here as soon as possible.
Anything you want, sweetheart.
Can we eat her?
Juni giggled in my head.Sorry dragon, but no. That’s frowned upon in the human world.
Secretly, I left that option on the table.
The woman, Cassandra, went on and on. Juni ignored her, gathering things he wished to take with us and piling them on the dining table. I followed him into the bedroom, sadly, she did too, wildly yacking away. He walked into the bedroom closet, retrieving luggage and handing it off to me.
She was like a broken damn record. If I had to hear one more word about money I was torching the expensive mink coat she wore while it was still on her.
Finally, I couldn’t take it anymore. My dragons face surfaced, and it was enough to startle her. She stopped dead in her tracks as my dragon snarled. Whether Juni heard him or not he chose to ignore it and kept focused on what he was doing. She stormed from the condo, slamming the door in her wake.
Thank fuck that squawking was over.
As soon as she was gone, Juni burst into tears and I wrapped my arms around him and squeezed him tight. “It’s over now, sweetheart.”
Are you sure I can’t eat her?
Well, at least our dragon knew how to make Juni laugh.
“I wish, but just getting away from this toxic environment without serving time for murder will be great, dragon.”
Our dragon huffed but finally settled down. He was on high alert the whole time that damn woman was here.
“Sweetheart, why don’t you take a break and order us some food while I get your clothes packed up.”
Juni stood on tip toes and kissed me. “I love you.”
“And I you, now go take a break. You more than earned it.”
Juni sat aside the few outfits he wanted put in his travel bag then left me to handle packing the rest. “Juni,” I found him sitting on the couch sipping a glass of wine when I came from the room. “That’ll calm the nerves. I’m gonna run out for boxes and tape. You have more clothes than luggage.” Note to self, build an entire room in the new house just to be his closet.
“Sorry, I love shopping. And fashion. And make-up. Ooops, um, I have a lot in the bathroom to pack.”
“Show me everything that’s going so I can get enough packing supplies.” A quick search on my phone located a hardware store a couple of miles down the road. When I got back, Juni was emptying out the hall closet.
“Jackets.”
“No surprise.” I set the stack of boxes and rolls of tape down. How in the hell was all this fitting inside my tiny home while we built the big one? Juni had a hell of day with his mom, so I’d keep that, and any other negative thoughts, to myself, but holy cow, this boy had a lot of shit.
“Food will be here soon. I forgot to ask what you liked.”
“I’ll eat anything.”
“Good to know.”
Right now, I was glad he’d opted to trade in his car, because nothing would’ve fit into that shiny red thing he had. At least with the new SUV we could put the back seats down for more storage space. I just hoped like hell we didn’t hit any rain along the drive because these boxes would not survive it in the bed of my truck.
