“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

A couple of hours later, Cameron, Ramon, Rivkah, Roxy, the rest of the bodyguards, and I are huddled in Ramon’s 'bunker', which is in reality just a reinforced house with a security system across from Lycantina.


Hannah and Alyssa returned to their homes to rest. The adrenaline wore off for Alyssa and she went straight to bed from her scrap with Jenna, but Hannah said she'd probably stay up all night waiting for my text.


“So, the security camera was too blurry to catch much.” Roxy turns a stickered laptop screen. “But it shows that the male shifter fought Donovan in the parking lot, drugged him, and put him in the trunk of the car.”


Her arm is iced and in a makeshift sling, and I can tell it bothers her not to be able to use her other hand to type.


Chapter 45: All Broken Up