Shifter's Claim (The Shadow Shifters)
“That’s what he’d told her, even though she’d been fully aware of those facts from the first e-mail she’d received. This wasn’t a game, and whoever it was that wanted her to uncover this secret Reynolds and his friends were harboring, were doing a damn good job of hammering that fact home. Right to Priya’s doorstep, to the heart of who she was, to be exact.
This morning she’d walked up the familiar cracked steps to her mother’s house, becoming instantly overwhelmed with all the memories that liv...ed beyond that front door. Using her key she’d gone inside, walking through the vestibule, inhaling the scent of stale cigarette smoke and old grease. Her mother would be in the kitchen, no doubt, sitting at the old Formica table with its only two surviving chairs, across from the cracked counter that held the nineteen-inch television Priya had bought her two Christmases ago. She would be dressed in her robe, cotton and frayed at the collar and her hair, which she’d long ago cut short would be slicked down to her scalp with some gel concoction she was fond of.MoreLess
This morning she’d walked up the familiar cracked steps to her mother’s house, becoming instantly overwhelmed with all the memories that liv...ed beyond that front door. Using her key she’d gone inside, walking through the vestibule, inhaling the scent of stale cigarette smoke and old grease. Her mother would be in the kitchen, no doubt, sitting at the old Formica table with its only two surviving chairs, across from the cracked counter that held the nineteen-inch television Priya had bought her two Christmases ago. She would be dressed in her robe, cotton and frayed at the collar and her hair, which she’d long ago cut short would be slicked down to her scalp with some gel concoction she was fond of.MoreLess
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