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“Not like his,” Faith said into her mug with a teasing smile for her sister.
“Oh, I missed it?” Hope asked, looking for confirmation.
“Nice butt,” Faith said, wrinkling her nose and offering Hope a conspiratorial smile.
“Do you mind? That’s my man that you’re ogling,” True said, rolling her eyes at her sister.
“Ooooo,” everyone said at once, and True chuckled.
“What’s the point in being a sister-in-law if you don’t get to ogle?” Faith replied.
“If you’ve got him and he’s hot, flaunt him,” Amy said, shrugging. “So, any chance of a repeat performance for our viewing pleasure?”
“You know,” True said, sitting back in her chair and making them wait for it. “I hear that just as the sun rises, a lot of the pack go out for a morning run.”
“Yeah, I’m not doing that,” Amy said, shaking her head. “They are shifters; they’ll leave me in their dust.”
True chuckled. “No, I mean, they have to shift from naked to a wolf,” she said, waving her hand like the British monarchy until everyone was on the same page.
“Sun up, you say?” Amy said, grinning. “I do like a good sunrise.”
“I might join you,” Faith said. “A good sunrise is always a crowd-pleaser.”
“It’s just men,” Hope said, rolling her eyes. “You know they have the internet for that sort of thing, right?”
“I’m surprised you know how to switch on a computer, let alone surf the web for fish in the sea,” Evie said, grinning.
“Oh, she doesn’t,” True said. “She waits for me to switch on the laptop, and then it suddenly goes missing.”
“Like I can be bothered with that,” Hope said, shrugging it off. “When is Dani getting here?” she asked, changing the subject.
“She said she was right behind me,” Amy said. “Probably still lining up the cups by colour glaze or something.”
CHAPTER TWO
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Dani reached to pull the backdoor closed and heard the music gently coming towards her on the fresh morning air. Someone was playing the guitar, and it sounded wonderful.
She closed her eyes and drank everything in. The sea air, the sunshine on her eyelids, and the music transported her to the last summer holiday she’d taken as a child with her mother. A beach up North somewhere, and it was a good memory.
She felt like someone had wrapped a warm, comforting blanket around her shoulders, and the weight lifted a little from inside her. Her stomach had been in knots for a while, and remembering her childhood felt good.
A happy place, a better time. Not that Dani didn’t like where she was now, she felt safe with her new friends, and it was starting to feel like a family, but things had felt like that before and not turned out right.
“Oh, time,” she said, snapping back to the real world and the fact she was so late for the meeting at True’s place. She yanked the backdoor closed, and it caught on something, so she pulled harder, and the door slammed shut.
Dani rushed through the house, grabbed her phone and door keys, and headed out the front, yanking the door closed behind her.
“Hey!” The deep, angry male voice made her jump, and she looked around to see where it came from and spotted a half-naked guy in an upstairs window just a short distance from her place and waved.
“Morning,” she called back, as bright and breezy as she could, considering he was someone new and she tended not to like strangers much.
“Stop banging; some of us work nights,” he growled.
Dani felt the rush of embarrassment and waved again. “Sorry!” she called, but he had already yanked his body back from the window, and now she felt even smaller. There was that heavy weight again.
“Don’t mind him; he hates his job,” a friendlier male voice called from the other side.
