Fates Hands novel Chapter 73

Chapter 8–Book 2

Jack wasn’t sure what to do first. That was something of a rarity for him.

“It is because you are having trouble keeping it in your pants. Jack.”

“Go eat some grass, you asshole bear.”

Brutus has a way of being brutally honest in the rudest of ways. Jack is pretty sure it is intentional too.

He was in a pickle right now, he had to help her and keep her safe. To do that he was going to have to reveal something about himself that might have her running and screaming again.

“Yeah, wait till she finds out that the bear the other day, watching her while she was swimming naked, is none other than you.”

“Don’t you mean us, furball?”

“Oh, fine then go and tell her that you shift into a bear. That is why you’re half-naked in the woods. I’m sure that will help your case. She thought you were Mr. Crazypants before…..Brutus continued to laugh and roll around.”

“You do know you asshole, that if she is my mate she is also your mate as well. It might interest you to start to help out a little, instead of just laugh.”

Jack decided to not listen to Brutus and go and tell Nova his secret. Hoping that she wasn’t going to think he had fallen off the deep end. He didn’t tell Brutus his full plan was to shift right there in front of her.

See if Mr. Smartass Bear will still be laughing when he is in the spotlight.

Brutus stopped laughing when he heard those thoughts.

James was standing in his living room looking down at his useless piece of shit wife. He left her passed out on the bathroom floor and went to Nova’s bedroom to check things out.

When he got there he noticed that her jacket and purse were gone, her work shoes though were still there. He went over to the floorboard by the wall and lifted it. Little clever Nova thought that he wouldn’t find where she had hidden her diary.

Most of the time it was pretty boring stuff or girl things. Which he had no real interest in. Once in a while, though it would give him a little bit of information, like he found out she was afraid of the dark and spiders of

any size.

He hadn‘t looked in it for a long while simply because it just got too boring. This time though he might find something useful in it. Still, she never revealed where she hid her money though. Which always irked him. Not that he cared that she had it, just the fact that it was something he couldn’t control.

He opened the diary to the back where all the new things will be written. That was when he read the last four pages about this guy she met and how they were going to take her money, so they can use it to run far

away.

It even had a list of things she was going to need to take with, and when she was planning on meeting him.

He whipped the diary at the bedroom

window shattering the window to pieces. He didn’t care, how dare she run off with another man. James thought that he should have been the one she wanted, his charm and looks should have been all she needed.

That fucking slut!!

He left the house and went to his shed, where he was God. When he went through the back to his secret entrance, he stopped. The dust on the floor had been disturbed. Not a lot, but enough to see that the footprints belonged to someone with small feet.

So Nova was in here. What was she doing in here? Did that stupid mother of hers tell her where she could find more jewelry? Something wasn’t sitting with him about all this. He would think that if Nova had a guy he would be picking her up or they would be doing things together.

At the very least her activities should have increased. None of that had happened though. Her backpack was gone as well as her hiking boots.

That little bitch has run off into the fucking woods. He smiled at that thought, his favorite game.

Hide and Seek.

Jack walked over to Nova and sat down next to her, she looked at him but didn’t say anything.

“Nova, what I am about to tell you will make you think my cheese has slid off my cracker. I can assure you that it has not and that everything I tell you will be the truth.”

“Alright, Jack what is it you wish to tell me. I will try to keep an open mind.”

“The reason I am out here in the middle of the woods with only jogging pants on is that I can shift into a grizzly bear.”

Nova stared at him like he just grew two heads and wings.

“I am telling you the truth and I will show you now what I say is true. Please don’t run away screaming, Brutus my bear will not harm you.”