“True, but that didn’t last very long. You softened me up.”
“Shall I do the same for your dad?”
Shane immediately told her no, and she giggled like it was a joke, but Shane wasn’t joking.
“No, you’re mine, Vivica. I thought I made that clear. Only mine.”
Chapter 21
Vivica
Vivica felt warned and the way that Shane was sure they wouldn’t get along, she wondered if he wanted them to. She would try her best, but there was something that Shane was leaving out. She wasn’t sure what it wasn’t, but she would figure it out.
She thought that any family had to be better than no family. She had lived without any family for so long, that the idea of somebody turning away a perfectly good one was hard for her to fathom. It didn’t upset her, more it just confused her.
Shane was more nervous than she was, as they opened the door to a bedroom in a part of the house that she hadn’t been in. The place was so big that it was easy to see that there were some nooks and crannies in the place that she hadn't explored just yet.
Yet. She was planning on staying. What did that mean for her? Were they together for good now?
Obviously, the man was Shane's father. They looked remarkably alike, and she couldn't believe the resemblance. Shane, of course, would probably not want to hear it. She had a suspicion that he did not want to be like his father at all. They certainly looked alike though. Her body was responding to him in much the same way it did with Shane, not knowing the difference between the two. That's how close to each other they were.
Vivica was at a loss and Shane was just standing there next to her. He looked at her strangely, like he knew that she was turned on and Vivica’s face turned pink. She looked away and hoped that Shane wasn’t near as good at that sort of thing as she thought he was.
Shane wanted to know what was going on, asking with his eyes, but Vivica didn't have an answer. She had never met the guy before, but it felt like Shane. Shane was obviously perturbed, and Vivica wished that she had reacted differently. Her idiot body was getting her into trouble and there wasn’t much that she could do to stop it.
“Sorry, but wow, you just look a lot alike. It is good to know that Shane will age well.”
As soon as the words came out of Vivica’s mouth, she wished that she could take them back. She was gushing over the father, and Vivica remembered well that Shane said that he could sense things about her, sexual things. She was mortified to think that Shane would know that his father had turned her on. She snuck a look at him, but thankfully he was preoccupied with his father. He looked like he was ready to pounce, and Vivica had no idea why. She needed to know though, because it felt like it was important.
Vivica didn't want to apologize again because it would only bring more attention to the stupidity that was coming out of her mouth. She hoped that Shane didn't notice, but he did. He was not happy about it either. She smiled at him, trying to pull the same gesture back, but Shane wasn't going for it. He was rightfully upset with her. How could she say such a thing out loud?
George looked at her and then back at his son several times. The older copy of Shane eyed her with curiosity and then dismissed her all together, talking to his son instead. Vivica felt miffed but tried not to show it. She was trying hard to get along with him, for Shane’s sake.
“I'm not really sure what's going on here, but I can tell you that having a damn human in your bed isn’t going to get you back in the good graces of the clan. You can never bring her home with you, just remember that, if you insist on having one of them in your bed.”
It was clear to Vivica that Shane had heard the same words before. She felt like she was beneath them all of a sudden, and George’s comments solidified her assumption that not all shifters would see humans as equals.
“I am home, dad.”
“Where is your clan?”
“They kicked me out. Why would I want to go back?”
“Because a shifter needs its clan.”
“This isn’t what I came here for.”
“So, what did you come here for then?”
“I wanted you to meet Vivica, dad. I thought the two of you should know each other.”
George scoffed.
“Don’t do that.”
“Well, you brought a human here to be introduced to me as what, your lover? What did you think I would say? Did you think that I was going to invite her into my open arms and pull her into my bosom? This is unacceptable. The clan will never stand for this.”
The whole time, Vivica was looking from one man to the other, and it took her a minute to realize that Shane's dad was talking bad about her. She started to realize very quickly that her being brought there was like a big slap in the face to George apparently. She didn’t know how to feel about any of it.
