Her Mighty Shifter by C.L. Scholey Read Free Book Online Page A

I go crazy if you take me?”
    “You mean you aren’t crazy?”
    She threw the fruit at him. The feisty little human was growing on him. He began eating his fish, crunching, while he watched her wrinkle her nose.
    “You eat the bones?”
    “Yes. My shifter converts the bones into high quality calcium.”
    Daintily Posy picked meat from the bone. “This is good.”
    “My planet has a wide variety of food you’d love.”
    “Just because I’m big boned doesn’t mean you can lure me with food.”
    That shocked Maximus. “You aren’t as small as the others, but you’re perfect.”
    “So you don’t think I belong to the elephant?”
    “I think you belong to me.”
    “If I don’t?”
    “Then your shifter mate will come. Once we leave Earth and I can prove to you you’re mine our life will be easier.”
    After a few mouthfuls Posy lay down. Maximus saved for breakfast two of the fish he’d caught.  He pulled the roots from the coals, ate a few, then settled down to sleep. The moonbeams couldn’t come fast enough for him.

Chapter Six
     
    Posy peeked her eyes open. Maximus was sleeping. She crept forward on silent hands and knees, picked up one of the leftover cooked fish and backed out the cave opening. No sooner was she outside than a hand went over her mouth and an arm went around her waist lifting her and pressing her back against solid muscle. Posy grabbed the fish by the tail and swung it back over her head where it exploded when connecting onto her assailant. Small bits of fish rained down on her.
    She bit the hand at her mouth, balled her fists and smashed her elbows into the man’s belly. He released her, and she spun. The man wasn’t familiar. The growl he emitted made her tense. He shifted into a hippo. Posy fell back.
    “You’re mine, female,” the hippo said.
    I’m never gonna get used to that.
    She grabbed a rock and flung it at the hippo. A crack sounded as it bounced off a tooth. Mouth open the hippo approached as she backed up on all fours. She banged into a pair of legs. A massive familiar lion pounced on the hippo’s back. Maximus grabbed Posy’s hand, yanked her to her feet, and took her into the jungle.
    “You just abandoned your friend,” she shrieked.
    “I shift into a mouse. Remember? What would you have me do, scamper the hippo to death?”
    “Good point.”
    “Damn, I want to go home.”
    Posy’s lungs were ready to burst. You want to go home? She’d never run so fast in her life.
    “Is this what life on your planet will be like?”
    “Hell no. Normally I’m the one doing the chasing. This sucks.”
    They paused to catch their breath at a small waterway. Posy flopped onto the bank. She caught her reflection in the water and on hands and knees gaped at her image.
    “Oh my God, my hair. It’s like it went on a wild vacation without me. I have dirt for war paint. And my teeth, oh, my teeth, yuck.” Her hand shoved her wayward boob back into her bra. “Even my tits are trying to get away. I’ve shifted into an Amazon warrior.”
    Maximus hauled her to her feet. “You can’t shift.”
    “Then how can I be with a shifter?”
    “Posy, if you aren’t meant to be with a shifter the beam won’t allow you to go to my planet.”
    “Really?” Hope at last.
    “Really.”
    Andro came flying to a stop mere feet from them. He shifted to human form and dropped to his knees.
    “Tac says the beam will be here tonight. His calculations were off because this shift has been so damned screwy. Once we get on our planet he wants you to make certain this one is yours and mate with her or all hell will break loose. Every lone shifter on the planet will think she’s theirs.”
    “Excuse me.” Posy stood tapping a foot, arms crossed over her chest.
    “Duck,” Maximus yelled.
    Posy dropped as his fist came up. He smashed a massive snake in the mouth. The snake hung limp from the tree. She growled at him.
    “Who’s the one in danger now? Snakes eat mice.”
    “I told you,