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The Chronicles of Shane-Part Four
| Posted on May 21, 2012 at 11:15 PM |
 “Shane…Shane….Shane!”
Shane
jerked, both of surprise and the fact that he’d actually let himself be caught
so off guard. That never happened to him.
Or at least, it never used to.
He
let out a sigh turning to study the annoyance that had dared to disturbed his
daydreaming. While the rest of the coalition called the Fox shifter, Dr. North,
Shane preferred to call him, the Devil, Mind-fucker or Dr. Evil. Of course,
Shane never bothered to say any of those behind the guy. What fun would that
be? No, he said it right to North’s face.
Damned
it North had remained stoic through the whole thing and refused to show any
emotion. Shane didn’t know whether to be pissed or impressed. In the past, he’d
always managed to get everybody in his life to the pissing kittens stage of
mad. Even Shane’s mate, Trevor, got angry at Shane and they were mates.
“Did
you grow up in Japan?” Shane asked as he batted at a ball of yarn that was on
the coffee table.
Hello, irony! Other
than that, the room was as bland as North’s personality. Hell, he didn’t even
have the ink blobs pictures. Which would have been a nice way to break up the
boring brown furniture, the burnt orange walls and the thick carpet that was…sigh…brown.
“We’re
not here to talk about me,” North replied.
Shane
went on as if he hadn’t heard. “The reason I ask is because it’s obvious that
one of your parents was Japanese, while the other came from China.”
For
the first time ever, a flicker of emotion passed over North’s face. It was so brief
that had it been anybody else they would have missed it. But, then again, Shane
wasn’t just anybody else. He’d been trained to notice things like that. In
fact, the skill had saved his ass one more than one occasion.
“I
gotta wonder how your grandparents felt about that.” Shane tilted his head to
the side.
“I
wouldn’t know. My father’s parents never contact us and my mother left right
after I was born,” North replied.
While
he may have been trying to keep his voice neutral, Shane could still hear the
hurt. It made him feel bad. Again, something that never would have used to happen
to him.
Shit,
while he loved having Trevor and Ava in his life, Shane hated how his new-found
ability to love made him weaker.
He
batted at the yarn as the guilt ate at him. Damn, it! When had he grown so
soft? Next, he’d be saving starving kittens and crying that those Sarah
McLachlan commercials.
“It
could be worse, my mother sold me off to a sadistic monster,” Shane offered in
way of repayment.
North
sat forward, his forearms resting on his knees. Shane had to admit the guy was
pretty hot, in the whole intellectual, I’m-smarter-than-you kind of way. The
Fox even managed to make dress pants and a sweater look sexy.
Not
that Shane would ever make a move on anybody else. He had Trevor and there wasn’t
anything that Shane would ever trade him away for. Shane just could see why
certain members of the coalition had it so bad for the good doctor.
“How
does it make you feel to know that your mother did that?” North asked.
Shane
snorted. “I met the bitch, so I realize that I got the best side of the shitty,
stick life threw at me. While my master may have been cruel and meaner than
Gacey and Bundy together, it was still better than being with her. At least my
master had invested in me, so it was in his best interest to keep me alive.”
“But,
didn’t your mother save your life when she sold you in the first place? Otherwise,
your father would have killed you before you were even a month old.”
“It
was just a moment of softness on her part. I’m sure it was the first and only
one she ever had in her short miserable life. I hold no delusions when it comes
to her. Plus, there are some that would argue that killing me at birth would have
been the more merciful option.”
“Do
you believe that? That the world would be better off dead without you?”
Shane
grinned down at the ball of yarn. “Have I ever told you about my first kill?”
It
was really a hypothetical question, since Shane had never shared that story
with anybody. Not even Trevor and Shane knew for a fact that nothing could ever
make his mate turn on him.
“No,”
North replied, his eyes narrowing in suspicion.
Shane
had to give the guy some credit. He knew that he was being set up for something,
yet he still insisted on pushing on.
“It
was a human. Although some would call him a monster. He dealt in the slave
market, but unlike most of the others he didn’t deal exclusively in humans or
shifters.
He
bought and sold both. He only had one requirement, that the slaves in question
be as young as possible.”
Shane
pause, but North didn’t say anything. Rolling the ball of yarn in his hands,
Shane continued, “The slaver made the mistake of taking the wrong kid. Which was really stupid on his part. Even
somebody who knows little about how the shifter world works, realizes that it’s
a huge mistake to mess with the only son of a Raven leader.”
“So,
the Raven hired you to get his son back?” North asked.
“No,
he hired my master. I was just the one sent to do the job. It was soooo easy,
too. Even for a first time. I managed to sneak in and I gutted the guy before he
could even cry for his guards.”
“How
were you able to sneak in?” North pressed.
“I
disguised myself as one of the slaves.”
North
swallowed hard, his face growing pale. “But, you said he only dealt in
children.”
“Yes,
I did.”
There
was a long pause before North let out a soft curse. “How old were you?”
“Ten.”
“Jesus,
you were so young.”
Shane
shrugged. “You want to know the really twisted thing about the whole thing. I
didn’t feel bad about killing. In fact, I never have. I’ve been doing this for
more than
half
my life, yet I never once gave a fuck.”
He
finally gave his full attention to the Fox. “Tell me, Doctor, how many session
will it take to fix that?”
North
just sat there, all deer-in-the-headlights. Shane got up and tossed the ball of
yarn at him. North snapped out of it just in time to catch it. Reaching for the
door, Shane said, “Don’t feel bad. You’ve just realized something that I’ve
known all along, I’m broken and there’s no fixing me. I’m a monster just like
that human. Only I’m evil in other ways.”
Fixing
him with a hard glare, North replied, “That’s not true.”
Shane
smirked, “What makes you so sure of that?”
“Because
a monster would never love Trevor and Ava. I see the way you look at them and I
know they mean the world to you.”
Damn,
how Shane wanted to believe that. Then he thought back to all the lives he’d
taken. Sure, most of the victims had been evil in their own way, but they’d
still had souls. So, Shane should feel at least a niggle of guilt. Yet as he
searched himself, he found nothing.
Flashing
his coldest smile, he said, “Well, as much fun as this chat was. I have a job.” North
shivered, no doubt realized what kind of duty Shane would be performing. Only
this time instead of it being because of the orders of his former master, Shane
would be doing it to protect the coalition.
“You
do realize that you were around the same age,” North called. When Shane cocked
his head in confusion, North continued, “You and Ava. You were around her age
when you first killed somebody.”
Letting
out a small snarl, Shane snapped, “Ava is nothing like me and she never will
be.”
Shane
then slammed the door and walked away. |
Categories: The Chronicles of Shane, the lost shifter series
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97 Comments
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Foretta
8:42 PM on June 3, 2012
I love these post... can't wait for the next. Shane and Trevor are my fav in the series! Thanks
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Esther
1:29 AM on June 7, 2012
Please respond to my question. Is the man on the cover of "A Very Shaney Valentine's Day" suppose to be Shane or Trevor? That man has the features described for Shane since he's thin with big innocent eyes. OR is the man on the cover of "Shane's Fury" Shane? Personally I see the guy on "Shane's Fury" would portray a better image as a Shane for me. Since he's an assassin and feared by everyone I really envisioned him to be a bit bigger.
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Stephani Hecht
2:12 AM on June 7, 2012
Foretta says...
I love these post... can't wait for the next. Shane and Trevor are my fav in the series! Thanks
Thank you,Foretta! I love Shane and Trevor, too.
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Stephani Hecht
2:14 AM on June 7, 2012
Esther says...
Please respond to my question. Is the man on the cover of "A Very Shaney Valentine's Day" suppose to be Shane or Trevor? That man has the features described for Shane since he's thin with big innocent eyes. OR is the man on the cover of "Shane's Fury" Shane? Personally I see the guy on "Shane's Fury" would portray a better image as a Shane for me. Since he's an assassin and feared by everyone I really envisioned him to be a bit bigger.
Hi, Esther! It's supposed to be Shane. That was the closet image I could find to fit him. Personally I think he's a combination of the two. :-)
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Esther
2:01 AM on June 8, 2012
Thank you for replying! Ok, I'll try to picture Shane as both. Still really love this series regardless of the images of the people on the front of the books. Really love the pairs Seth & Noah and Chance & Thomas. They seem to leave the biggest impressions 
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Esther
2:23 AM on June 11, 2012
Sorry for commenting even though my comment isn't about Shane's story. I was reading "Gage's Awakening" and at the beginning I already felt it was a bit weird. Gage in the story is brown hair with innocent eyes, thin, and small... while the Gage on cover of the story is dark, grayish hair, and alpha looking... the only similarity would probably be the hawk tattoo on the back. To be honest, the cover throws off the image I have of Gage in this story and from his appearance in the other stories. I know he might have been the closest image you could find, but... it made it almost uncomfortable to read knowing how different the Gage on the cover is to the one in my head.
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Stephani Hecht
6:37 AM on June 11, 2012
I wish I had the absolutely perfect model, but since the characters are fictional there is no model out there that is exactly what a character looks like so the artist has to work with what material they have available. :-(
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Esther
5:01 PM on June 11, 2012
Yea, I know. I'm just being picky. Sorry. But the whole humor from Shane and Carson makes up for it. Those two are really funny. Makes me laugh and smile when I read the things they say.
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Esther
5:12 PM on June 11, 2012
Would a story with Tatum and Baxley being mated together be possible? They remind me of a younger version of Shane and Trevor
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deborah p
4:23 PM on July 20, 2012
I might be wrong but I thought Run Alger! Run was being
released yesterday the 19th of July. If so I can't find
it, where I get your books. Did I over liik it or maybe
something happened and it was'nt released for sale.
released yesterday the 19th of July. If so I can't find
it, where I get your books. Did I over liik it or maybe
something happened and it was'nt released for sale.
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Stephani Hecht
2:49 AM on July 21, 2012
deborah p says...
I might be wrong but I thought Run Alger! Run was being
released yesterday the 19th of July. If so I can't find
it, where I get your books. Did I over liik it or maybe
something happened and it was'nt released for sale.
I am so sorry for the delay. I have been very ill, to the point of having to spend a week in the hospital. I hope to have Alger out in August.
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deborah p
6:15 AM on July 21, 2012
Sorry to hear you were sick. Hope you are feeling better.
Thanks for the information. I'll look for it in August.
Thanks for the information. I'll look for it in August.
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