Beauty Sleep - Chapter 7

Benson’s POV

Of all the things to tell her aunt she was hiding. A kitten? I could taste the bitterness in my mouth.

Talk about how to offend a man, never mind the son of an Alpha. But when she said two of her aunts hated cats and would stay away from the barn if they knew one was inside. I swallowed my pride and ate some snacks Ora brought me.

We climbed up to the ‘loft’ as Ora called it. This was to avoid anyone seeing me, and so I didn’t scare any animals they had around. I was also grateful to avoid the cat litter she scattered around.

Ora must spend some time up here, as there are books and flashlights. Sitting on a bale of hay, Ora sat next to me and we both turned to face one another. We talked for a while. About my family and friends. Where I was from in America.

I didn’t go into detail about my shifter life. She would have thought I was delusional and called the men in white suits.

Ora told me how she lived with her three aunts. They adopted her when she was very