Beautiful Creatures Series

Chapter 7: 5

Aurora rolled onto her back and stretched. It had felt so good to get a good night's sleep in a real bed. She sat up and looked around, but she was alone in the house. She climbed out of bed and walked around. There were no work boots by the door, so she assumed Stanton had gone to work. She made her way over to the fridge and opened the door. Her eyes widened in shock. Wow, that was a lot of food. Next to the fridge was a large chest freezer. She lifted the lid to find it was packed to the top with wiled meats wrapped in butcher’s paper and labelled with a black marker. He must have hunted a lot.

What did one single man need with so much food? She thought about Stanton’s vast size. Actually, she supposed he probably had to eat a ton to maintain himself. A guy like Stanton could never survive on salad. She picked through the meat, looking at all the various wild animals he had in that freezer. Everything from rabbit to deer. She found a package that read deer ribs. She picked up the package and took it out of the freezer to defrost. S

Aurora unwrapped the meat and put it in a watertight freezer bag. Then she submerged the bag in a sink of water to speed the defrosting process. She was hoping to have the meat ready for cooking by lunch. She would cook the ribs low and slow for hours, and when she was done, they would be fall off the bone tender. She wasn’t sure when Stanton would be back from work, but she did know the longer she cooked them, the better they would be.

She then found the cleaner in the closet and proceeded to give the cabin a thorough cleaning. At noon Aurora took the ribs from the bag in the sink and prepped them for cooking. She slipped the pan into the oven. Once that was taken care of, Aurora went through the fridge and pantry for things to use to make a homemade barbeque sauce to slather over the ribs.

There was a knock on the door, and Aurora left the sauce she was working on to answer the door. She wiped her hands on a hand towel and made her way to the door. Aurora opened the door to find a tall attractive blond man in cowboy boots and a hat standing on the other side. His amber eyes stood out, and a sly flirtatious smile graced his handsome face. “Wow,” he said with a little chuckle. “You are just… damn.”

Aurora smirked. “Can I help you?”

“I’m Darrell Savage. I’m a friend of Stanton’s. He asked if I would check in on you throughout the day.”

“You don’t have to work?”

“I do, but I’m boss, so I can take a longer lunch break should I want to. I thought I’d pop in and see how you were doing. I understand things are new to you.”

She knew what he meant. “I’m doing fine, thank you. Stanton has been very kind.”

“Good, do you need anything?”

She looked around and then shook her head. “No, I don’t think so.”

“Something smells good.”

“I’m making ribs.”

“Lucky Stanton. Well, if you’re all good, I’m going to get back to work. Welcome to the pack.”

“I’m not a pack member yet.”

“You will be.”

not stay.”

will. Why don’t you come out for a drink with me and some of the others? Explore Feral before you decide

it some thought,” she

The clients get so testy if they don’t see you on the site.”

Cowboy,” Aurora grinned playfully.

are so pretty, you get to be the only one to call me that.”

“I feel privileged.”

4x4 parked in the driveway. He climbed up into the driver’s seat and pulled

that man that was so charismatic and sexy. He was so confident and judging from his eyes. He was

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inside. His senses were assaulted by a scrumptious smell that almost made his mouth water. Something was cooking. As he kicked off his boots, he saw Aurora bent over, pulling food from the oven. “You have great timing,” she said as she placed a sheet pan of ribs on top of

closed the door and started toward her. “It smells

the bed, the least I could do was make you dinner,” she said. Aurora looked at

smiled and sashayed over to him. She reached up and took hold of his work shirt, running her slender fingers over the buttons. She looked up at him with those naughty eyes, and Stanton

all cleaned up while I let the meat rest, and when you come out, dinner will be

he agreed. He could feel his pulse speed up. “I’ll be right back,” he promised as he collected some clean clothes and then headed for the shower. Stanton stripped down and hopped into the shower. He reached for his soap and washed away the filth of the day as quickly as he could. He was dying to get back to the beautiful woman in the other room.

he wiped the steam off the mirror and reached for his shaving cream. He lathered up and picked up his razor, then dragged it across his jaw, shedding the grown that had been there. Once he was finished, he washed his face and then looked at himself in the mirror. He was so excited, but as he stood there looking at himself, his spirits faded. He was a fool. A girl like that wouldn’t be interested

into the hamper, then joined Aurora in the kitchen. She was placing two plates

clean jaw, “I was feeling

tonight you might show me

she wanted something. “Yeah, sure. We can

told her he wouldn’t have thought she would care, but she paid

on the floor next to the fire cross-legged. Stanton started the lessons easily. He was showing her how to control her will by getting her to turn her pretty little hand into claws. She was having trouble at first and getting frustrated. “Calm down,

at it and took a long calming breath. “Just be,” she repeated, trying to remain calm. Stanton was pleased when her slender fingers elongated, and her hand became a

“Yes, you did.”

the first time I’ve

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