looked over at Mike who had been staring at her since the moment she came through that door. There was something feral in his eyes, a look she remembered all too well from her introduction to Shifters.
“I don’t know,” Will shrugged. “I love this city. I’m not sure I would move anywhere. Maybe to another part, but that’s about it. I’m sure we’ll eventually have to move, but right now, I just like it a lot here. I’m sure you’ll come to love it as much as I do. It’s not a hard town to fall in love with.”
“Where is it that you work?” Oksana asked him, feeling nervous for the moment that he leaves.
She was going to be extremely nervous when she was on her own with just one of them. That would be when they both needed to fight the hardest and she was going to have to be on her guard. She had to make sure that at least one of them realized they wanted her. She needed to show them the potential of everything she had to offer. Right now, she knew there was something between her and Mike that was going to be sexual, but Will would probably have something a little less physical in mind. She only wished she would have her time with Will first. But, his leaving was going to be very interesting, leaving her alone with Mike. She wondered how he was going to take it.
“I’m a manager at a grocery store down the street,” Will said with a shrug. “I have to make sure people don’t catch on to us. You know? There’s nothing about being a Shifter that’s easy. I figured that it would be much more glamorous than this, but so far, this is all I’ve got.”
“You seem to be doing well for yourself so far,” Oksana gestured to the living room that was just as quaint and well decorated as the kitchen had been.
She looked at everything around her and wondered how someone could think they weren’t doing well for themselves. This was a home that would rival anything that she had seen in Ukraine.
“Thanks,” Will said, checking the watch on his wrist for a moment and then glancing at Mike who was drumming his fingers on the counter. “Well, is there anything that you want to ask us? Is there anything that you’re curious about?”
“Not that I can think of,” Oksana said. “I’m very excited to be here.”
“Did you know any other Shifters before us?” Will asked her, leaning on the quartz island.
She looked at him and thought this was definitely a question that was worthy of being asked. In their online exchanges, she hadn’t told them a single thing. She hadn’t said a word to them about what her intentions were or how she had come to know about their people. In fact, they hadn’t even asked, which she had found odd, but she also knew that her looks were making things a little urgent for them. She knew that the whole time they were talking, they were praying she wasn’t talking with anyone else.
“I had the fortune of dating one of them,” she said with a shrug.
She didn’t really want to talk about it, not right now, not when she knew so little about either of them. She didn’t feel like sharing and she knew they probably weren’t interested in hearing about it. Who wanted to hear about the exes of the ones that they were dating or interested in? If there was one thing Oksana hated more than anything about a new relationship, was telling the other about their past. She hated that part. She hated the looks in their eyes and the whole feeling she got when she let them into the intimate past of her life. That wasn’t necessarily their business, not at this point, not yet. Maybe a little later, she would owe them that much. But, thankfully for her, she was going to have to deal with that a lot later on down the road.
“Seems like that was one of the most common ways of meeting them,” Will said with a smile. “I saw that most of the people on there claimed they had heard about Shifters from other Shifters whom they had dated. But you, you didn’t list how you knew about Shifters,