and I am not doing laundry. He goes to the basement or he can bite it on the front lawn."
"You think he smells good?" Chuck asked, surprised.
All the damn Shifters tried to bite back delighted smiles. What was going on here?
"Yes. He smells good. So what?"
"Describe it," the mountain lion insisted gleefully.
"Oh my Goddess, this is so dumb. He smells like sunshine and wind. You want to know anything else while he bleeds out on the grass?"
"Nope." The mountain lion, wolf and Chuck the bear were positively ecstatic. They picked the wounded wolf up, took him to the basement and locked him in a cage.
"Is that really necessary?" I asked. "You can just leave him on the floor. You don't have to lock him up like a convict."
"Zeeelda just spent nine months in the pokey for killing meeeee," Fabio explained to a now confused crowd.
"TMI, dude," I told my cat. "Seriously, don't lock him up."
I had no clue why locking the wolf up bothered me but it did.
"Trust me," the rabbit chimed in. "It will be better for everyone if he's incarcerated when he wakes up."
The Shifters all moved quickly to the stairs and right out the front door, including Simon, Chuck, Wanda and Bo.
"Um, is there a reason you all are leaving so soon?" I asked, now somewhat uncomfortable and more than a little freaked out. "Is he going to want kill me or something like that?"
"Hell no," my mountain lion buddy said. "He won't harm a hair on your head. We just think you'll need some privacy."
With that cryptic message they fled. It was me and Fabio against the world...and the wolf.
"Was that as weird as I think it was?" I asked him.
"I'd haaave to say yesssss."
"Okay, good, because I'd hate to think I was crazy."
"Ohhhh, you're crazy, buuut that was odd."
"You're a pain in my ass," I told him as I flopped down on the couch and went for the remote of the lovely ginormous flat screen TV.
"Thaank youuuu. Can weeee watch Animal Planet?"
"No. No, we can't. Nice try though."
"How abooout Say Yes to the Dressssssss ?"
"Now you're talking."
Chapter 9
I jerked up and gasped as I wiped the drool from my mouth. I had clearly fallen asleep. Dragging several hundred pounds of wolf and getting bled on can do that to a girl. Fabio was on my head and the racket coming from the basement made me shudder. The wolf was awake and he wasn't happy.
His bellowing was ear splitting and it was giving me a headache. Obviously he had shifted back to human form and was pissed. Suddenly it seemed like a very good idea that he was locked up, but if the violent cage rattling was any indication he wouldn't be locked up for long.
Shitshitshit .
"What do I do?" I hissed at Fabio as I pulled him off my head.
"Ruuun?" he suggested.
His recommendation had merit and I considered it for eight seconds, but when the shouting got even louder I got mad.
"I saved that stupid wolf's life. He is not going to give me a migraine," I groused as I got to my feet. "You coming?"
"Oooonly if youuuuu make me," he said.
"You're worthless," I muttered as I stomped to the door of the basement. I'd had enough of this crap. At least the last group I'd saved had brought me presents. This jackass was just loud and ungrateful.
"Let me out of here. Now," a deep and strangely familiar voice bellowed.
"If you would shut your cakehole for two seconds I might," I yelled as I rounded the corner and marched angrily into the room only to stop short and gape.
It was Hot Ass Guy from the grocery store and he was naked. About six feet four of total, furious buck ass naked perfection enthralled me and I couldn't move. His eyes narrowed dangerously as he took me in.
"I should have known it was you," he muttered disgustedly.
"Listen, you unappreciative asswaffle, you need to change that crappy attitude or I'll leave you in that cage," I shot back. I also
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