All Chapters of Bitten: Chapter 21 - Chapter 24

Relaxation was a distant memory. Jess had decided that we now needed a day of shopping, and when she said a day she meant a full day. We'd been wandering around the mall for the last three hours and from the way Jess was talking there were at least another two nearby we had yet to visit. I wasn't generally a shopper, but Jess had been so excited I didn't have the heart to put a damper on her day.

The man beside me was too slow, he meandered through the airport as though he had all the time in the world. Maybe he did, but I didn't. Landing back at the tiny Haven Falls airport all I wanted to do was find Max, but the nice wolf Jonathan sent back with me wouldn't be rushed and I was too polite to say anything.

The diner had always been like a second home to me. I'd worked there for years, both before and since I was bitten that night. It had provided a constant in my life when I'd needed it, it was my daily dose of normal. I valued working alongside people who simply knew me as Maggie, not as a werewolf, certainly not as a rare female wolf. At the diner I was just me, with no other identities attached.

"Not the most romantic date night."  I took a sip of wine, watching Max over the rim of the glass.