Chapter One

A few days earlier…

Antonetta rolled her eyes at her computer screen. She’d been staring at the dang thing so long, the glare was giving her a migraine—unusual for a Shifter with supernaturally enhanced healing capabilities, but whatever.

She checked the time on the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. Ugh. It was almost nine o’clock at night, and she’d been in the office since dawn.

No life, Toni. You have no life.

Her ex’s words played back in her head, but Toni shrugged them off. That turd had started texting her again this week, and it was fucking with her.

Are you really better off without me? Who else is going to want you?

Asshole. Yes, she was better off without him. As for who else would want her, how about nunya?

Nunya fucking business, turd breath, she growled the thought.