Night Finds Read Free

let’s go,” Jake says grabbing the cart out of my hand as he hurries to the checkout. I am going to have to find out just what little miss helpful said to get him moving. It might be useful later. If nothing else, I can taunt him about it.
    “I guess that is our cue to leave. He forgot his meds,” I explain to the woman and follow after him. I hope he doesn’t damage Peanut’s new things. As fast as he is moving, he is most likely going to run into something. When we get to the checkout he is buying whatever he was hiding from me and a lady is ringing our cart up.
    “This yours?” she asks not halting her scanning.
    “Looks like it,” I reply and head to the keypad to scan my card. I am a little afraid what the bottom line is going to be on this haul, but it is for Peanut, so no amount is too much. The lady gives me the total and I hit the necessary buttons to draw this excursion to a close.
    I cannot wait to get back home and start in on Alex. I don’t know if the thirty-minute drive works in his favor because I will have plenty of time to stew about being moved into a new home without being told.

Chapter 2
    Ghosts of witches past
     
    “You guys could have helped out a little more in there,” Jake says as he settles into the backseat of my new Suburban. It is a newer model than my last one and I have found that it has way too many buttons. I don’t know what half of them do and the guys installed more after we got her home. My only request was that they put in enough storage for all of my gear. My wish was granted and most of the floor opens up to reveal little cubby holes for me to hide things in.
    “What was up with that? Did she offer to comb out your fur?” I ask as I start the car and wait for Sebastian to return from taking the cart back. With me being so delicate and all, they wouldn't let me help unload anything. I don't think lifting a couple of sacks is going to cause any permanent damage. Unbeknownst to them, Phee and I have been slipping in some sparring time when we can. Okay, Sebastian and Alex know, but they are keeping their mouths shut about it. Phee doesn’t really follow through and I only fight at about a quarter of my standard levels.
    I look back in the rearview mirror to see Jake shaking his head. “Thankfully, she didn’t know I was a werewolf, at least I don't think she did. It would have made her requests even dirtier. I asked for some help picking something out and the second I found what I wanted and tried to go pay for it, she pounced on me. The things she said would have scarred Peanut for life. I cannot bring someone like that home to meet the family.”
    “Who are you and what have you done with my Jake?” I have to be dreaming or something. This is not like him at all. I know he has been better, but he still tends to be the one we have to pry away from the girls. Shoot, when we made a little side trip to Hell not that long ago he was about ready to sign his life over to some little demon chick, and she was into girls. Sebastian returns and I am quick to leave the parking lot. Even if the woman believed Jake’s line about us being involved, she still may be a bit stalkerish and try to trail us home. Jake is just the tip of my man candy entourage iceberg. She would be in heaven once she was introduced to the rest of the gang. They may say that I draw all of the attention when we go out, but I know what the women are really looking at.
    “Hey, I have been good. I am going to be an uncle of sorts, so I need to learn how to be a good role model. It ain’t easy, but I am trying. The other guys are doing pretty good too. I don’t think there has been a curse word uttered in the last three days. You have to admit that is on about the same level as Moses parting a sea.”
    I don't think I would take it that far and I am sure the heated glares and punches they endured from me have nothing to do with how good they have been doing on the swear word front. Even with all of my