Lucy's Wolverine (Lilly Town Shifters) Read Online Free

wasn’t like her sister.
                  “Lucy? Are you okay?” she heard someone ask.
                  “I’m fine. Have you seen Lexi?” she asked, starting to panic. What if something had happened to her? What if she was being raped out back or something? Or was dead? What if someone had killed her and thrown her in the dumpster? Damn her imagination! Lexi was probably off charming someone.
                  “She left…”
                  “She left!” Lucy repeated as soon as the words left Mike’s lips.
                  “Yeah. She asked me to take you home.”
                  “What?! She asked a stranger to take me home? You could be some serial killer or something!” she said hysterically.
                  “I said the same thing… well, minus the serial killer part.”
                  “And she’s trusting you to take me home?” What the hell was her sister thinking? She’d talked to Mike for all of five minutes the night before. She didn’t know him, and Lexi was trusting him with her safety?
                  “I’m not going to hurt you.”
                  “Okay,” she said, with all her fight leaving her. Honestly, she was faced with either walking home in the dark or getting a ride with a stranger. “What was her excuse?”
                  “She went to a club and asked me to drive you home.”
                  “I can walk,” she said, holding her head high. She knew she wouldn’t; she would call a cab or something. Hell, she didn’t know what she would do.
                  “I know you haven’t lived here for very long and it seems like a nice quiet town, but you can’t walk through the streets this late at night. It’s not safe.”
                  “And yet it’s safer for me to ride home with someone I don’t know?”
                  “Yes, because I won’t hurt you. And you can ask me anything you want. That way you can get to know me some,” he said with a smile.
                  “Fine! Have you ever been arrested?” she asked. She thought he looked like the type to have been. Something about the big man with all the muscles.
                  “Yes.”
                  Okay, she didn’t think he’d actually tell her. “For what?”
                  “I broke someone’s jaw a few years back because they started a fight. He did press charges, but I think he realized it was better for me to have broken his jaw than for the other guy to have killed him, so he dropped them.”
                  “Oh.”
                  “Anything else you want to ask?” Mike asked her.
                  “Family?”
                  “No,” he said sadly.
                  “I’m so sorry. That must be hard. I don’t know what I would do without Lexi or our parents.”
                  “It happened a long time ago,” he said, looking at his shoes. It seemed like something he didn’t really want to talk about.
                  “Okay, you can take me home.”
                  “Really? Two questions and you trust me?” he asked.
                  “You seem sincere… and I can’t think of anything else to ask you,” she said sheepishly.
                  “Okay, come on,” he said with a small smile.
    ***
                  Mike opened the door to his truck for Lucy and watched as she attempted to climb in. His truck was just a little too high for her short legs. And to top it off, she was wearing a jean skirt. He could tell she was trying not to flash him or anyone else, which made it even harder for her.
                  “Let me help,” he said with a little laugh. He’d been enjoying watching her struggle, but