Page 8 of Guy (House of Frazier #4)

At midnight, he got up and crept to the front door.

He knew that Margaret would have gone to bed by nine-thirty.

She was a creature of habit, and since they’d been little, that was their bedtime, and she would adhere to it.

Going out into the cold of the night, he nearly went back inside as the wind picked up some of the snow and blew it onto him.

But he had a job to do, and he needed to do it now.

He didn’t have a car to drive, so he walked the four miles to Amber’s home.

Even in the darkened night, with all the snow surrounding it, the place looked good.

She had planted some flowers in the spring that made him think that he’d love to have someone do that for their place.

However, he only scoffed at the idea with his sister so she’d not think he’d gone soft in the head over a bunch of flowers that perked up the place better than their new car had done for their home.

Staying across the street from the place, he looked at the footprints in the snow and saw that there had been a lot of walking around her place to get the cameras put in.

He could see the green lights making it known that the house was more secure than not.

Shawn wanted to go across the street and rip them from the place, but he knew that would bring the police.

The sign right there in the front made it clear to anyone going by that it would happen if tampered with.

He was so depressed about it that he wanted to go home and go to bed and not get up.

Things with Amber were getting more complicated daily, and he didn’t care for it.

“I’m so superior to her that it’s laughable that I’m in the situation that I’m in now.” It really wasn’t laughable, but it did make him want to cry. “She should be begging me to take the money from her rather than us having to go around stealing from her.”

He didn’t care for stealing at all. Oh, it had been fun at first. To take the things that she’d had simply because they could.

But as things went on, the broker they became, it was necessary for them to survive all these years.

Her having a job that paid her something was the only reason they would have any food for that night or not.

Some people would say that he needed to get a job.

Well, he didn’t think he’d ever be that poor that he would need to find himself some employment.

It was beneath him to have a job, and he didn’t want anyone telling him what to do daily, either.

If he were to be found working at some menial job, it was because it was preferable to eating from a dumpster.

And that was something that he’d never do in his life.

There was movement at the house that drew his attention to the place.

“Shawn Gross.” He said his name like it was the awful way of spelling their name. He and Margaret pronounced it like Goss without the ‘r’. Shawn told the man that. “I don’t care if your name is douche canoe, what are you doing around my future wife’s home?”

“Future wife? Oh, I see. She gets a little money, and suddenly you want to marry her.” He knew that wasn’t true as soon as he said it.

The Fraziers had money, and by looking at the man, he could tell that’s who he was.

“What do you want with a woman like that when you can buy anyone you want. Hell, I’ll sell you my sister if that’s what you want. ”

“Make up your mind. Am I broke or rich? I can’t be both.

But whatever the reason that you’re talking about, she is going to be my wife soon.

And right now, if you don’t back off from harassing her, I’m going to make you regret ever being born.

” He sort of felt like that daily. “I can read your mind, Shawn. Why would you continue to steal from her when you feel bad about it?”

“I never said that I felt bad about stealing from her. But there are days when I feel like being born to this time isn’t what I would have wanted.

” He had no idea why he was telling the man this, but it felt right.

“We were stupid with our money, and now we’re broke.

How about you give us a few million and I’ll leave Amber alone. ”

“I don’t think so.” Of course not. Why would he help them? “When I marry her, and it will be sooner rather than later, you’ll be my half-brother-in-law. Or something like that. I’m hoping that we can get along better than we’re seemingly getting along now.”

“You mean that I stop taking from her. I don’t think that’s going to happen. Not unless you can convince her to hand over her insurance from my mom. Mom wasn’t anything to Amber, yet she got all the money.”

“You got the bigger house and more money than she did when her own father died. Or did she? I can’t imagine that he’d leave his first little girl out in the cold like he did.

He seemed like a good man.” Shawn snorted and said that he was a sap.

“Is that why you killed him? Because he was a sap? Or did you have other reasons for being upset with him? Your mom, too. I know you killed her as well.”

“You have no idea what you’re talking about.” Guy told him what he knew about the death of their mother. “You don’t—where are you getting that information? You’re just making up about how she was headed into the store instead of out. You don’t know anything about it.”

“I know that she wanted some ice cream that she’d forgotten to get, and you and your sister came up behind her and hit her with a baseball bat.

How hard was it for you to swing it in the icy cold parking lot when you were just kids?

I’m thinking you would have had to have some powerful feelings for you to have swung it that hard. Did she piss you off before leaving?”

“She was forever pissing me off. Did you know that she wanted me to get a job in the summer months we were off from school? Why should I have to work when Dad was making all kinds of money?” He didn’t say anything.

“You should get your facts right before you go spouting off shit you have no idea about.”

“You argued with her that day. Telling her that you weren’t going to work unless she did. She told you that she had a hard enough job just raising the three of you.” That stunned him to silence. But not Guy. “She slapped you, too. Told you that you were going to have respect for her in her home.”

“No.” Shawn was sure that he couldn’t hear him, as it was just a whispered sound. But he’d forgotten he was a shifter and knew that they could hear better than most. “You couldn’t know those things. No one knows what happened that day but she and I.”

“I’m talking to her right now, Shawn. Do you want to know what else she has to say?

She said that you and your sister were brats from the time she brought you home from the hospital and that your dad gave in to you whenever you went to him.

But that didn’t last forever, did it? He started listening to Belinda after you got into trouble at school when you accused my brother of cheating off of you.

That didn’t work out so well for you either, did it? ”

“You shut your mouth. I told you that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Shut up before I come after you.” The tightening of the air around him was all the warning that he got before he was shoved into the snowy embankment with a giant dog on his chest. The claws of the thing were digging deeply into his chest, and he cried out with the pain.

“Get off me, you stupid mutt. I’m going to sue your ass for this. I swear it.”

The snarl had his dick shrink and curl around his ass. It wasn’t a pleasant feeling, but he knew that it could have been worse. When the thing nipped at his hand that he was using to push him off with, then there was the lick to his face.

~*~

Guy wanted to rip out his throat and be done with him.

But Belinda was begging him to back off and not kill him.

What she said was that he wasn’t worth it to go to prison for killing him.

But he did have a connection with him now, and he planned to use it to do everything he could to make him regret pissing him off.

“What will Amber say when you turn up at the house naked as the day you were born?” For some reason, they had a good connection too, and he told Belinda that he’d be clothed because of him being her mate.

“I wish tigers had that. It would have been nice to have had a few times when I was in the yard with their father.”

“I don’t want to know, thanks.” She laughed and told him that Amber wanted him to come home. “I suppose you told her that I was with her brother, too.”

“No, I can’t tell her anything. It’s sort of my fault that you had to shift, and I’ll take full blame for that.

Oh, how I wish I had been able to shift as a ghost. That’s something that I miss a great deal.

I’m glad that the other two were never able to shift.

I think it saved a lot of people’s lives by them not being able to shift into a tiger.

” She looked around, wondering why she was even out here.

“Let him go, and let’s get back home. I’ve had enough memories…

do you suppose that if you were able to call to my husband, he’d remember who killed him and why?

I know that the robber killed him, but…I guess that’s who we should be calling back.

To see if he remembers the kids from the ones who hired him.

It would be something that we can look into when you let him go and come back with me. ”