Rodney: Marshall’s Shadow – Jaguar Shapeshifter Romance, Kathi Barton [dar e dil novel online reading .txt] 📗

in full. Did you know that?” He said he’d not heard anything more than that the office had been wrecked. “Yes, well, I might have forgotten how much of a temper Thomas had when he was done wrong. But how he was able to do this is beyond me. I think one of those men in that office has a broken arm. I know I was having a hard time just standing up in there with this shit all over everything and anything it could get into.”

“Honey, don’t. If you talk about the office or what is going to happen when you shit, I’m going to die. Maybe not from not laughing, but you will surely kill me if I laugh anymore.” She glared at him. “Come on. You have to think this is funny on some level.”

“I think I should murder you in your sleep. Or better yet, I should rub myself all over you and see how you like feeling this way.” His cock stretched at the thought of her rubbing any part of her over him. “You’ve just shown me your cat. I’m assuming he’s wanting me as well. I do want you. Very badly. And if we didn’t have people in the car with us, I’d take you right here on the side of the road.”

“You’re hurting me. You know that, don’t you?” She smiled then. Not a lot of humor was in her look, but he could tell she was enjoying herself. “All right. I have a plan. We’ll take your sister home, then take Grandda and go home. The first one that is naked gets to do whatever the other wants.”

“Deal.” She opened the car door then closed it. Pulling him to her, she kissed him like he wanted to be kissed. There was so much in the way she moved her body over his that he was sure anyone watching them could tell. “You had better not be called away or any other thing. Do you hear me?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

They both got into the car, and he pulled out into traffic. Rodney was glad no one asked him anything. He wasn’t sure he could have answered anything important right now. His thoughts were centered on one thing, and that was having Rebel naked under him. But Grandda spoke about what was going on with all the projects he had going on. Mostly to do with the money he had coming from his job.

“I know the family has a lot of projects going on, but I got me an idea that I can hire a crew of workers and do some odd jobs around the town. People like me, up there in years, could use a little extra cash at times. Well, not me, but some of the others I know.” Rebel asked him what sort of odd jobs. “I was thinking like mowing a little bit of a lawn. Or picking up something at the grocery store for a shut-in or something like that. I was even thinking that some of us could go over to the nursing home and read a bit to some that can’t see much anymore.”

The three of them talked about that most of the way back. The drive back to the house was spent talking about the insurance scam too. That’s what it was, too. A scam. He was glad Harris was on top of things. Otherwise, the women of his little family would be hurt. Rodney was sure that once she started digging, she’d find this had been done before by the insurance company.

“That wasn’t on the check I got from them.” He looked in the rearview mirror at Sheila when she spoke. “I took a picture of the check when I got it from them. I’ve looked everywhere, including the memo part where they told me it was, and there isn’t a note there about it being paid in full. I have it right here, and it’s not on there.”

“You should contact Harris.” Something he’d learned today was that Sheila was terrified of Harris and Bella. They’d done nothing to her, but he thought it was more like the fact that they were no-nonsense women and their wealth. Rodney was glad Rebel was encouraging Sheila to talk to them more. “She’ll be able to get with the bank about it. I know most banks take pictures of the checks they cash, so I’m betting they have one of yours.”

“I’ll do it if you’re there too.” Rebel said she wasn’t going to be able to do it today but that Sheila should get on it as soon as possible. “All right. I really could use the money until you get your practice set up. I hadn’t realized we owed so much in bills. Then, after getting a small treat for the kids, something I’d do again even if we had only gotten ten dollars, it was gone. That’ll be good money for us, and this will make a nice nest egg for the kids when they want to go to college.”

So it was settled. Pulling out her cell phone, Sheila called Harris. He could tell she was nervous and stumbled over what she was trying to say, but she finally got it out. Then when she told Harris her bank information, Rodney thought it had gone better than even Rebel had thought it would.

“I have a picture of it now. But I don’t think they’ll believe me. Especially after today.” While he could hear Harris speaking on the other end of the line, he couldn’t tell what she was saying. But when Sheila thanked her several times, he knew it had gone well. After closing the connection down, Sheila sounded as happy as he’d ever heard her. “She told me she’d get me the money. No matter what they say. It’s good to have someone on your side that will fight for you. Don’t you think?”

By the time they were dropping Sheila off at her home, Rodney had