“When are you going to stop dancing around Josh and just give in to him?” Eve asked her friend as they wandered the dirt roads of Bull Creek, hoping to get in some exercise. Alanna complained of sitting at her job all the time and feared her ass was widening. Of course, Josh always said he loved backside, but that never calmed Alanna’s nerves. The Florida sun was high overhead, bringing the stifling heat to the wooded community and a sweat to her brow. Still, Eve would take it over the frozen winters up north any day of the week, not that she had lived in the north, but still. “I’m not a shifter, and even I can smell how the air changes when you two are around each other. Why keep the poor guy at arm’s length?” A couple of days had passed since Eve’s self-pity party at Everglades, and

