Taming The Lion: BBW Paranormal Lion Shifter Romance (Gray Bears Book 5) by Natalie Kristen Read Free Book Online Page A

Gramma! Let
me help you,” Kaylee cried, running up to them.
    “Oh! Hello, Kaylee.”
Ne-ma beamed.
    Kaylee took the trolley from
her and grunted at the weight. “Wow. You guys bought a lot of
things.”
    “There's a sale at
Magic-Mart. All magical supplies at fifty percent off!” Gramma
crowed.
    “We didn't know that
wands came in such pretty colors now. We only got boring black ones
when we graduated from Spellwell High.”
    “How many wands did you
buy?” Kaylee asked as she hefted the trolley across the
threshold.
    Ne-ma held up two fingers.
    “Just two wands each?”
Kaylee raised a brow.
    Ne-ma giggled and shook her
head.
    “Two...dozen?”
Kaylee ventured.
    “Nope!”
    “Two hundred!”
Gramma announced happily. “Each.”
    Kaylee gasped. “That's
four hundred wands!”
    “They were going at
half price,” Ne-ma justified.
    “Uh-huh.” Gramma
nodded smugly.
    “Okay...” Kaylee
said slowly. She couldn't argue with that, but still…
    “What are you going to
do with four hundred wands? Are you casting some big, powerful spell
over the whole town?” Kaylee joked.
    Kaylee turned and saw Gramma
and Ne-ma glancing furtively at each other.
    “A witch can't have too
many wands,” Gramma said quickly.
    “And they're so pretty!
They have sparkles on them,” Ne-ma added, as if that explained
everything.
    Kaylee narrowed her eyes.
Gramma and Ne-ma were giving her their best wide-eyed, innocent
smiles. But she just had a feeling that they were up to something.
    “Just put the trolley
behind the counter,” Ne-ma said as they entered the inn. “Do
you want some breakfast? Alisa's in the kitchen. I can ask her
to...”
    “Thanks, but I've had
my breakfast,” Kaylee said. “I wanted to come by and
tell you that...I got a job at The Round Table.”
    “Oh that's wonderful!”
    “The Round Table is a
great pub! We love their Witchy Wednesdays! We get free drinks and
we get to kiss the hunky bartender!” Gramma made a loud
smooching sound.
    Kaylee laughed. “The
Round Table is closed today. It's my day off, so if there's anything
I can do...” She shuffled her feet. “I can help out
around the inn, or run errands for you...”
    Ne-ma came to hug her. “I'm
so proud of you, Kaylee. You're settling in beautifully. We don't
need anything done around the inn today. But maybe you could go see
how Lorni Jones is doing. Her sister said she's been cooping herself
up in her house and not going out much.”
    “I'll go see her,”
Kaylee said at once.
    “Loretta and Mac's
house is the second house along Moonshine Avenue. It's just two
streets away. You can't miss it. It's the only house that's painted
purple along that street.”
    “I'll go now,”
Kaylee said. “I'll drop by Baker's Hut and get you some
cupcakes on my way back.”
    “Get the ones with
extra frosting,” Gramma and Ne-ma said together as they waved
her off.
    Kaylee grinned and nodded.
“Got it.”
    She jumped back in her car
and made several wrong turns before she found Moonshine Avenue. She
saw the bright purple house at once. Lorni was at the front of the
house checking the mailbox.
    “Lorni!”
    Lorni spun round with a
startled cry. When she saw Kaylee jumping out of the car, the fear
on her face dissolved and she managed a shaky smile.
    “Kaylee, what are you
doing here?”
    “I came to see you,”
Kaylee said, linking her arm through Lorni's. “How are you
doing?”
    “Not so good,”
Lorni admitted. “Come into the house. Loretta and Mac are at
work. I wish I could go back to work too, but...” Lorni
sighed and closed the front door behind them. “I...I'm really
glad you came, Kaylee.”
    Kaylee went with Lorni to the
kitchen and helped her make two cups of coffee. Lorni had dark
circles under her eyes, and she looked like she hadn't been sleeping
well for many nights. As they sat at the kitchen table, Kaylee made
small talk and told Lorni about her new job and some funny, minor
mistakes she made on her first day. She just