Savage Hunt by Jane knight

Chapter 1

Chapter One: Calling Home

Tillie

Holding the phone up to my ear, I took a deep breath. I had spent the morning talking with my best friend and now I knew that taking a break was going to help me sort through everything that I had learned.

Shifters, mates, sex demons.

It was all so wild that these things were in my life and I hadn’t known about them.

I knew that Charity was worried that I wasn’t going to come back if I left, but I knew that I had to. I couldn’t hide out at my parent’s lake house forever. Hiding from everything that I had learned about the world forever, no matter how appealing that idea sounded. I had a job that I liked and while Tristian was cool with a lot of things; but I doubted that he would be cool with me never showing up to work again.

“Hello.” My stepfather said, answering my mother’s phone.

Damn, I had hoped that I wouldn’t have to talk to him. It wasn’t that I didn’t like Scott or anything. My mom had married him when I was a teenager and he doted on her and treated me like I was his daughter.

He just tended to talk, a lot.

“Hey Scott, is mom around?” I asked, bringing my thumb up to my mouth and worrying my thumbnail.

phone instead of hers. Anything I can help you with?” He asked and I could hear banging in the background

“You okay?”

dropped a wrench on my foot.” He answered and I moved deeper into my apartment to sit on the

let me guess you were barefoot? Working on your baby?” I asked, trying not to smile. Scott had a Mustang that was older than I was that he’d been working

one of the metal bar stools that sat at his workbench. Tools spread out and the

me going out to the lake house for a few days?” I asked, worrying my thumbnail with my teeth before pulling my hand away. It was a bad habit and something that I only did when I was stressed out and I knew that

mom would love to

bit by myself. I’ll clean it up before I leave.” I said, hoping that it would be okay with him.

the two of us, or what I had happened afterwards. That was something that had me anxious. It was one thing to tell your parents that you were dating one guy. It was another thing to tell them that what you thought was going to be a one-night stand had turned into so much more and you were practically

the fact

up before you leave. We know you’re not throwing

up. Thank

her know you called. Drive safe and

words made me smile. It was the little things that showed me he cared. He had stepped up to fill in the father role

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