I open it.
There’s a soft chime.
Pretty.
Too pretty.
My phone buzzes.
MATCH FOUND.
I blink.
“What?”
I didn’t even do anything.
I didn’t fill anything out.
I didn’t—my heart kicks.
Hard.
Too hard.
My she-Bear stirs, suddenly very awake.
Very interested.
“What the hell?” I whisper, staring at the screen.
Because right here.
In Maverick Point.
With one stupid, impulsive download—everything just changed.
And I don’t know if I should be excited.
Or run the other way.
Chapter 5
Rob
This should be easy.
I’m a decorated veteran.
A Navy SEAL who’s spent the last decade dropping into conflicts normal people would run from screaming if they even knew they existed.
I’ve hunted things that most folks would call monsters and come out the other side alive.
So, walking up to one curvy woman who makes ice cream?
That shouldn’t be a problem.
And yet here I am, standing across the street from Agatha’s Ice Cream, palms sweating like a damn rookie and my face heating up like I’ve been caught doing something illegal.
