Lycan's Prey by Jessica Hall

Chapter 48 – part 2

Valen POV

Her shower is tiny. Every time I turn or move, I was knocking crap down off the shower caddy or smashing my elbows on the walls. Getting in, I nearly knocked myself out of the showerhead; it was that low, and why was everything pink? Pink shampoo, pink soap, pink shower curtain, and floor mats; it was like a pink explosion in here. I didn’t pick her for a girlie girl.

I should have used the kid’s bathroom, not the joint one between Zoe and Everly’s room. Turning back to the task at hand, I grab the pink loofa and sniff it. It smells of Everly, so the fluffy pom–pom pink thing must be Zoe’s.

I am bending down under the showerhead trying to wash the shampoo out when I hear the door open and thought at first it was Everly until I listen to the mention of fudge mumbled, and I freeze. That’s not Everly.

“Remind me to ring Emily tomorrow to check on her,” she sings out. Frozen, I wonder what she is doing in there before I hear what sounds like someone peeing. Were they that comfortable peeing in front of each other? Then again, Marcus and I were close, and he had no care about taking a leak in front of me.

“Everly?” she asks. I say nothing before suddenly the shower

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curtain is ripped back, and we make eye contact.

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Her weary gaze goes to my shocked one, and her eyes widen when she screams, scaring the crap out of me, and I grasp the shower curtain, trying to shut it while she tries to cover herself where she was sitting on the toilet peeing.

The shower curtain is flimsy as I yank it closed only for it to rip off, and the motion catches me off guard. I lose my footing on the slippery surface. I somehow end up sprawled out on the floor, my legs spread in a very inappropriate manner, exposing me to a very horrified Zoe, and my head bends awkwardly in the corner of the shower.

“Shit, fuck. I thought you, ah I can see your penis and balls I can see it all, I want to unsee it,” Zoe shrieks, covering her

eyes.

“Everly!” she calls out.

shh, stop, don’t call her in here,” I choke out, trying to un–wedge myself. Bloody, how embarrassing and awkward.

get Everly,” she gushes, about to run from the room, but I move, grabbing

never speak of this moment again,” I gasp,

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out the pink back scrubber that is digging into my rear. I drop it on the floor before looking up at Zoe who is staring at the ceiling.

dude, alive?”

great,” I tell her, covering myself with the torn shower curtain.

corner of my ear is bleeding and running down the side of my face. I clean it up before drying and putting on some boxers. Will add that memory to the most awkward situation file in my head. Man, I can never look

out on the couch. Her mouth is wide open with her head tilted, bent back awkwardly. I sigh, relieved

even wake, making me wonder how much she actually works since she could sleep through all that noise I just made and Zoe screaming. Walking up the hall, I stop when Valarian calls out as I pass his door.

dad?” he asks, rubbing

to sleep. I will be here in the morning when you wake up,” his eyes

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with you and mom?” he asks, suddenly brightening up excitedly and I look down at Everly. I was planning on sleeping on the couch

he whispers, but he is already climbing out of bed.

quiet, we don’t

only thing that wakes her is her alarm once she is asleep, Aunty Macey let off an air horn, and she didn’t even move, yet her alarm wakes her,” he says, walking ahead and pushing the door open.

I ask him.

Valarian says as I place her down on the bed. I thought she took panadol, so this

middle,” tugging

ask him, climbing in beside him.

a baby. She gave us the hotel

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