Commando Cowboys Entice Their Beauty [Wyoming Warriors 6] Read Online Free

Mitch said. He and Daren headed down the hall.
    Garth hugged Rae before he and Cad headed across the street to Rae’s house. Raoul and Aleron waved as they left.
    “We’ll help Tessa take the food downstairs to the others.” Sara started to walk back toward the kitchen.
    “Do you mind if I run by my father’s real quick?” Jewel asked Sara. “I’ll be right back.” This was her only chance. Once Aleron and Raoul returned they’d never let her out of their sight.
    “I don’t think our men would agree.” Sara wrinkled her forehead.
    “They’re not here to get a vote. My parents’ home is only two blocks over. I’ll drive the truck I’ve been using and be right back.” Without waiting for another comment, Jewel strode out to the truck and drove off. She’d deal with the men later if they were angry.
    As she’d hoped, her father was sitting on the porch. He liked to enjoy the early evening in relative quiet and puff on his pipe. Inside, her mother, sister, and sister-in-law would be preparing dinner. She wasn’t sure where her brothers were, but thankfully, Dad was alone.
    “Hi, Jewel. Are you settled in the cabin?”
    “Not quite, Dad. I saw the fire when I was unpacking my car. When I notified Mitch, he insisted I stay at the ranch house today.”
    “I’m glad. I don’t like the idea of your being by yourself at this time.”
    Jewel sat in the swing across from him. “Dad, I needed to talk with you. I’m almost certain you haven’t heard that some of the men from the third tribe can shape-shift.”
    “No, I haven’t.”
    “I guess with all that’s happened Mitch hasn’t had a chance to announce it. Maybe he’s uncertain of the reaction from our people. Rae shared the information with me privately, just before she got married. Her husband and his brother and friend are all shape-shifters. Please don't mention this to anyone else just yet.”
    “I expect Mitch prefers to wait until this battle is over to tell all the tribe, but he may not be able to hold off that long,” her father said. “You aren’t thinking about telling them about you?”
    “I am. I’ve met several of the shape-shifters. Two of them say I’m their woman. And I am strongly attracted to them.”
    “But you have no idea how they or the others will react if you show yourself as a shape-shifter. I worry for your safety. I expect it may be hard enough for a man who’s a shape-shifter to be accepted, but a woman may find more danger in her exposure.” He puffed on his pipe. “Most of our people don’t know much, if anything, about shape-shifters and probably nothing about women shifters.”
    “I don’t think I can hide much longer. Being around the others makes the desire to shift stronger in me. In Oregon, I shifted whenever I wanted. That was the freedom I got in exchange for staying far from family and friends.” She blinked the tears from her eyes. “Dad, I’m beginning to want more. Husbands, a family, just like all the rest here on the ranch. I’m tired of hiding who I am.”
    Her father moved onto the swing beside her and put his arm around her shoulders. “I understand. When I met your mother on one of my vacations away from the ranch, I thought she was the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen. You look almost exactly like her. I left the ranch, and we lived together. When she became pregnant, she finally agreed to marry me.”
    He stopped talking and stared off into the distance. “I didn’t know until just before our wedding that she was the rare exception, a woman shape-shifter.
    “When she was small her mother told her about her grandmother’s decision for them to leave the tribe. Something had happened to one of the other female shifters. Your great-grandmother feared it could happen again. So she took your grandmother and left the third tribe. Your grandmother and mother, like you, learned at a very young age to not shift around anyone.”
    He took a deep breath. “As you know, your mother