Lee: Emerson Wolves—Paranormal Erotic Wolf Shifter Romance by Kathi S. Barton Page A

how you want this. Straight up? Sort of around the bush, or are you the type that likes details as you go along?”
    “Straight up, with a little around the bush if you please.” Dawn laughed. “You’re making me very nervous. Is my daughter all right?”
    “Oh yes. She and Dad got back a little bit ago. And so you know, we just love her to pieces. You did a wonderful job with her. She’s adorably polite, and she just says it like it is.” Kimber opened the door, holding onto her socks that had been with the rest of the clothing. “It did fit. Good. I’ve never been very good at it, but Sloan, now there is a shopper. I’m sorry. I should just get to it.”
    “Yes. But thank you about Hannah. She’s my joy and I love her with all my heart.” Dawn sat down when she did. “You were going to tell me something.”
    “I was. It’s about…I’m to tell you a little about us. The Emerson women. Sloan wanted to do this, but she had to take a nap. The baby is wearing her out. And Jack said that she warned you a little, but she can be scary sometimes, don’t you think?” Kimber nodded. “Anyway. Sloan first. Do you know who she is?”
    “I do. Even in France, where I’ve been the last few years, I read about her interview with the newspaper. I don’t know how she did it. But she’s the one that was hurt by her stepmother when she was a child. And she’s rich.”
    “Right. It’s really Addie that I’m here about. She wanted me to tell you if you don’t want her to intrude in your mind that you shouldn’t touch her.” Kimber paused in pulling on her socks. “She can read your mind, your future as well as your past. She wanted you to know that. I think…I’m pretty sure that she doesn’t have to touch you to read you, but she’s at least polite in asking you if you want what she can do.”
    “And if I don’t want her to know, then what?” Dawn looked away. “She already knows, doesn’t she?”
    “Yeah. Your aunt is one crazy fucking bitch. And she’s going to kill you.”

 
    Chapter 7
     
    Cash tried to figure out what his newest grandchild was telling him, but he was too distracted by the conversation that was going on across the room. Kimber was trying her best to hold her tongue, quite well as a matter of fact, but she was getting more and more upset with them all just the same. When she looked at him, he nodded to her and stood up, putting Hannah on the chair where they’d been sitting. It broke his heart to leave the child, but he’d get more of her loving later. She was just the sweetest little thing he’d seen in a while.
    “You’re not helping her.” They all turned and looked at him when he stood in front of her. “Look at what you’re doing to her. She’s about to explode like a bag of manure did last summer when it laid out in the hot sun too long.”
    “I’m not sure I like being compared to a bag of manure, but you’re right. I’m overwhelmed right now.” He sat down on the heavy table that he’d help put together not an hour ago when Kimber started talking again. “There’s just too much.”
    “’Course there is. Now, this here is what we’re going to do.” He looked at Lee. “He’s gonna hold onto your hand and then Hunter is going to talk. When it’s too much, what he’s telling you, then we’ll move onto something pleasant. Like…I don’t rightly know, but you can think up something.”
    “I want to talk to Addie.” He nodded, then frowned. “I know that she can…I don’t want to die.”
    “Not going to happen. You tell her, Addie. Things in your visions, they can change, can’t they?” He hoped he was right, and when Addie nodded, he could have kissed her. Might even later, after Jarrett was gone again. That boy was a might possessive. More than the rest of them were.
    “So I might still die, but maybe not.” He nodded at her. “That’s not helpful at all. I think…I have no idea what to think right now. I have a family that I never