Beautiful Creatures Series

Katelyn rolled, overstretching. The morning sunlit up the loft. This bed was surprisingly comfortable. It had been like sleeping on a warm plush cloud. It only took her a second to realize she was alone. She had no idea what time it was. There was no clock in the loft, and her cellphone had been destroyed. Katelyn got out of bed and walked over to the railing. She looked down at the kitchen below to see Darrell wearing just a pair of light faded blue jeans that hung low on his hips and nothing more. He was standing at the stove cooking while dancing in one place, listening to so some country music song playing on the iPod speakers sitting on the counter next to him. It was quite a sight.

Eager to join him, Katelyn grabbed up her pants and got pulled them on before heading down the stairs. As she reached the kitchen below, she saw Darrell plating two plates with steak, eggs, sausage, homemade potato hash mixed with purple onions, mushrooms, and bacon bits. It looked like something a big truck would order from some diner. It was so much food.

“Good morning,” he said, placing both plates on the table. “I was just going to wake you up. I hope you are hungry,” Darrell took a seat next to her and dug into his breakfast.

“You made me breakfast?” She asked, surprised as she picked up her fork and knife. Nigel had never made her breakfast.

“Well, I was already making my own; it was nothing to make a little extra.”

“A little extra? There is a mountain of food here.”

He chuckled. “I’m not a good judge of how much humans eat. Lycans have a remarkably high metabolism. We eat a ton just to function through the day. If you can’t eat it all, I will eat what you don’t,” he said, cutting into his steak.

She could not help but notice that his meat was nearly rare. “I don’t think you cooked your meat enough. It is rare, nearly bloody.”

“Just the way I like it. Just shoot the cow and put it on my plate.”

“Is that a Lycan thing?” She asked as he lifted the rare meat on his fork to his mouth.

“No, Dove, that’s a Texan thing,” he winked at her.

Katelyn found him extremely amusing. “So, you can build a house. You can cook you own your own company….”

“You forgot, I look great naked,” he grinned, and Katelyn laughed.

“What else can you do?”

“You mean besides turn into a three-hundred-pound supernatural wolf?”

She giggled, “Yes, besides that.”

He chewed and swallowed the food in his mouth as he stood up from his seat and offered his hand to Katelyn. Curious, she placed her hand in his and rose. Darrell took Katelyn into his arms and proceeded to slow dance to the song playing on the speakers. He slowly two-stepped Katelyn around the kitchen, singing along with the song as he spun her and dipped her. He was light on his feet, and Katelyn was totally smitten with this sexy country boy. Slow dancing in the kitchen had her pulse skipping a beat. She knew Darrell was not a real boyfriend, but he was already a better boyfriend than Nigel had been.

After their dance, they finished their meal and then they both got dressed. Katelyn was going back to the house with Darrell. If she was going to be staying here with him, she would need a few things. Besides, she knew for a fact, Nigel was not going to be there. He usually started work quite early if he came home at all the night before.

into Darrell’s truck and headed for the house she had been sharing with Nigel. As they pulled into the driveway, Darrell put the truck in park and then they got

nothing more to do with him and that he was fired. Darrell crumpled the note in his hand and smiled at Katelyn. “Finally. I was starting to think he was never going to fire me,” from what Katelyn understood the contract, they had stated that if Darrell breached the contract, he had to refund all money

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kitchen, then he cleared out the little odds and ends tools he had left behind yesterday. Once they both had all, they needed Katelyn tossed her key on the table with Darrell’s. She had only lived here one night, so she did not have much of her stuff here yet. The majority of her possessions were still at her parents’ house, which is where she was going to leave

a few things to pick up, so they went to a place Darrell called the hub. One street in the middle of nowhere

could want,” he said, opening the door to the grocery store. Katelyn followed him inside, where they ran into Aurora stocking shelves. “Hey, there, beautiful,” Darrell greeted Aurora as he picked up a hand shopping basket. He walked toward Aurora and grinned. “When you going to

be

go. My stamina is nothing short of amazing,” he said, pretending to hump her leg. Aurora laughed,

that, he would rip your spine

tossed it into his basket. “I’m

work early,” Aurora noted.

he held up his hand, and they both

“Hello, nice to see you

Aurora. Nice to

to be staying with me for a

“Oh?” Aurora said.

hashed out our differences, and I realized that Darrell is not

dating now,” Darrell added. Aurora broke out into laughter. “See, I told you

are really dating?”

and Aurora

“For real?”

laughed again. “Ok, get it all out

haven’t known you as long as the rest of the pack has, but I know you

Darrell

shrugged his shoulders. “I

really expect people to believe

“Yes.”

one is going

around for a while,