“Thank you for calling Centerburg Bank and Credit account management. This is Leigh, how may I help you?!” 

For the millionth time since I started this job, I wonder how I got stuck here in my hometown, when all my other high school friends, even my old crush Donovan, managed to go on to do so many more cool things in way better places.

“Hey, Leigh, how was your weekend?” A voice like smoke and velvet flows through the headset that soothes my Lycan ears.

Butterflies and sparks make my cheeks flush.

How is it possible for a Lycan to fall in love with a voice? 

***

Mackenzie thought her life working at the local bank was boring and simple until, suddenly, it wasn’t. 

Can such a simple love survive the return of an old flame, brutal fights with Shifters, and a violent mystery that rocks a small town?

It will be a close call, but for Lycans, you can always press one.

For Lycans, Press One is created by Meg Carlyle, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

For Lycans, Press One

“Mack! I hadn’t heard from you since Friday. Are you ok?” Donovan’s voice rings high with concern.


“Yeah, I’m…” I look around at the dinner that I’m cleaning up, scooping up half of it and putting it in Roxy’s fridge.


“...good. I just needed some ‘me time.’ Sorry, didn’t mean to worry you, or ditch you Friday for that matter,” I confess, but I know I don’t sound sorry. 


“I’m glad you’re doing alright, just don’t ghost me again, you worried me,” Donovan said, and a part of that sentence doesn’t sit well with me.


“You mean like how you ghosted me?” I know it’s petty, but it feels so good and justified.


Why should I have to be the one who doesn’t ghost him?


“Ouch. Yeah, I may have deserved that. But, I got a surprise for you.” Donovan doesn’t sound chastised. 


I hope he doesn’t think a simple present can untangle everything knotted between us.


Chapter 21: Roses and Gold