Shifting Shadows (Sparks Collide Trilogy) Read Online Free PDF

am sharp and the files on the toad are on
your door.”
    “Thank you, Kira. I will see you then
and please call me Doc.” He turned to the boys before heading back to Mrs.
Crenshaw “Any of you boys try to mess with my employee and you will not live to
tell the tale. Have fun.”
    Jay leaned back against the wall
looking relaxed and smug, knowing he’d already won. He spoke lazily, “Do you
have your stuff? You can drive with us and we can bring you back to your car
afterwards.”
    I nodded, grabbing my purse from
underneath the desk. “Yes and sounds good but I get shotgun.” Jay gave the
barest hint of a nod in acknowledgment and what seemed like respect crossed his
features.
    Brandon yelled, “Damn it, she’s good” and the
guys headed towards the door to the parking lot. Jay waited for me and held the
door open. As I passed him he said into my ear “You look nice, today.”
    I almost stumbled on the threshold but
managed to keep it together. “Thanks.” I shrugged and played it off cool as I
walked to the Hummer that had the others piling into it. At least I hoped I
did.

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Jay
    We met up with a few girls from the pack,
Mena, Demi, and Annabella. We introduced Kira and the girls clicked instantly.
I knew I shouldn’t be suspicious but I was. Every time I tried to throw her,
she kept it together. I don’t even know what I thought would happen though.
There was just something about her.
    I thought about what Doc said about why
he hired her. He said she was unlike anything he’d ever seen but being unusual
could also get you in trouble. And although no one else seemed to care, I
intended to figure how much trouble this girl really was.
    We got our drinks then we found our
usual booth in the bar and I made sure Kira sat next to me. Annabella took her
other side. Will and Demi, attached at the hip as usual, sat in their own booth
and Max, Mena, and Trent stayed at the bar and the stools there.
    “Why do you fight?”
    I looked up surprised “What?”
    Kira looked up at me expectantly “I
said, why do you fight?”
    “What makes you think I fight?”
    “Because I noticed on Friday that you, Trent,
and Logan had some bruises and today you all have new ones. So what’s the deal?
You guys in some secret fight club?”
    Had this girl noticed our accelerated
healing? I didn’t think so but still we had to be more careful with that. We’d
been getting sloppy lately. I was down with causing trouble but I wasn’t
stupid. I played it off. “If you know the first rule about fight club you’d
know I can’t answer that…but you didn’t ask that, you asked why, first.”
    “Right, why do you do it, put yourself
in harm’s way deliberately? Money?”
    I don’t know why I answered, maybe
because she caught me off guard. “No, it’s more for fun. Fighting is good
exercise and training. Plus you get bragging rights.” At least most of the time
when I fought with the pack it was for fun. My fights outside of the pack? Not
so much.
    “Training for what? Christina told me
you were going into politics…”
    Aha. “Checking up on me?”
    She looked right at me “You’re checking
up on me. It seemed fair.”
    I leaned back and searched her face.
Either she was really good at reading people or someone had tipped her off. She
spoke up, “Let’s just get this out of the way. There’s nothing nefarious to it,
I like animals and I need money and experience. Can we be friends now, James?”
    I burst out laughing and my pack shot
me strange looks, apparently I was louder than I thought. I reined myself in.
“Straight to the point, then. So you’re telling me I don’t have any reason to
be suspicious of you.”
    She paused at that.
    “Everyone has secrets, Jay but as far
as being a good employee consider yourself reassured. Unnecessarily of course,
but lucky for you, I can be accommodating.”
    “Got it, I’ve been a jerk. Let me buy
you a drink and make it up to you.”
    “Sounds good.” she