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alpha tone from my voice I let out a sigh, “I don’t know. Have any advice?”
     
    “Yeah , tell her before Billy does. He has a hard time keeping secrets , especially one this good.” Then his face soften s and the love he has for my mate shows clearly. “Bloom really is like my other daughter Pike and I want to see her happy. So I hope she takes hearing the truth from you well.”
     
    “I hope she does too .” She’s already connecting with me threw the bond, even though she doesn’t understand it yet. Once she knows the truth it won’t be too hard to convince her shifters exist and that we belong to each other. At least I’m hoping .
     
    “Well you best shift back so I can take you back to her, unless you want to fess up now.”
     
    “I think she needs to see the shift for herself and I’m n ot sure she’s ready for that . So I’ll wait.”
     
    “You’re probably right. But give her some credit she’s handled a lot over the years and I believe she’ll handle this just as well .”
     
    A respon se isn’t needed so I nod and start the shift back to my wolf form. Mr. Harris leads me out of the room and through the lobby. The girls aren’t there so he tells me they’ve probably taken their lunch t o the park next door. He flips the sign to close d and guides me to what he says is their favorite spot. I don’t need hi m to guide me to her, I can find her b y following her scent but people might take notice of a huge “ dog ” wandering around by himself.
     
    Her favorite spot’s on the opposite side of the park . A stone picnic table that sets in the sun by a small creek that ru n s along the back side of the grounds. She ’s sitting on top of the table with her back to us and her fa ce lifted to the sun. Bonnie’s rambling on about some party at a lake and Bloom’s politely listening but from her thoughts I know she isn’t interested in the slightest. The lake holds a lot of memories of her Dad and as much as she like s to spend time with Bonnie and some of her other friends she’s not sure she’s ready.
     
    I stop to admire her sitting there while Mr. Harris walks the rest of the way over. He ma kes himself known by grabbing one of his daughter ’ s fries and sitting down next to her. At his arrival Bloom sit s up and looks for me. When she finds me still standing several feet away she hop s off of the table and jog s over throwing her arms around me for a hug. She rub s my side and then look s at my un-bandaged un-injured paw and with her brows stitched together ask s Mr. Harris, “His paw’s already healed?”
     
    Swallowing the fry that’s in his mouth, “Yeah, you did a really good job treating the area last night.”
     
    “I could’ve sworn he’d ne ed some stitches.” She continues eyeing my newly healed paw.
     
    “It was late last night when it happened right? It probably just seemed worse because you were so tired.” Mr. Harris tries to cover.
     
    She looks over at him and back at me like she’s missing something. “Maybe you’re right. It was kind of late.” I c an tell she d oesn’t buy the answer, she just doesn’t want to seem ungrateful for him checking me out and she’s not sure why he’ d lie to her so she drop s the subject.
     
    Chapter 12 – Bloom
     
    ~ Going on with my life ~
     
    I’m trying to listen to Bonnie talk about the party at the lake while I fe e d P ike his sandwich, but I can’t stop wondering how Pike’s paw healed s o fast and why Mr. Harris act s like it’s no big deal. I may have been numb to the world th is last year but that doesn’ t mean I lost my mind. What makes my suspicions worse is that this man who’ s been like my second father ke eps glancing between Pike and myself like he’s waiting for one of us to pull a gun on him.
     
    “So are you going to come to the party Blu ?” Bonnie asks pulling my attention back to her.
     
    “Sure. When’ s it again?”
     
    “Thursday and don’t forget to bring a