Chapter 18

Ava

I burst out laughing like a mad woman, I held my hand to my belly and I kept laughing, the sound echoed through the woods next to the house as Connor looked at me with a frowning eyebrow. I kept laughing until my tummy started to hurt and I brought a hand to my eyes, wiping away the tears that had come out of my effort.

It was a long time before I could calm down, and when it happened, I looked up at Connor, who stared at me with his arms crossed.

"Are you a comedian for a living?" I asked hoarsely, and he shook his head, "That would also explain my broken humor," I continued.

"Ava..." he began to say.

"No, okay, you're a writer, and tell me the plot of your next story!" I said, lying on my knees and looking into his eyes like mine.

"I’m not kidding," he said, and I bent my head to the side.

"Shifter?" I said, "Is this the plot of some new TV series? I never got to watch one, in the orphanage, we didn’t have a television..." I began to say.

"Ava Eve Ruben!" suddenly growled Connor