Free The Baby Of The White Tiger (BWWM Shifter Romance) by JJ Jones Page A

couldn’t bring herself to fall asleep now; she sat watching the plains pass her window. Her thoughts were on Rosa, a woman that she wished she had gotten to know better. They stopped for lunch at a small diner near the highway. Dom searched the menu for something that would be acceptable for her diet. “I don’t see anything here.”
    “ I’m sorry. Don’t they have a salad or something?” Gregor started to examine the menu, searching for something that Dom could eat. He spotted a salad that didn’t have anything in it and pointed it out to her.
    She shook her head, frustrated by the country’s fascination with having meat at every meal. “I don’t really like salads, but I guess that will have to do.” She went through the standard rigmarole of explaining to the waitress that she didn’t want meat added to her meal. The woman looked at the young woman like she was crazy, but eventually moved off to put the order in.
    They ate, laughing about the fact that vegetarians often get looked at like they are visitors from another planet, and Dom could feel some sense of normalcy returning. She knew that it was going to be a long time until she could be normal again. So much had happened to her in the past few weeks.
    As she lay next to her lover that evening in another motel she knew the next day would be exactly the same as today. Gregor knew how overwhelmed the woman must be, so he let her think, let her decide what she was going to do with her life.
    By the next night they had arrived back in El Paso. Dom was still in her silent time when Gregor pulled the rental car into the parking garage. They both climbed out of the vehicle and entered the building, ready to see how bad the damage had been. They were shown into an office immediately upon their arrival and they waited. After a few moments, Anna walked in. “How are you doing?” The question was directed at Dom.
    “ Physically, I’m just fine now, well maybe not entirely there, my arm still hurts, but it’s healing.” Dom’s words were confused.
    “ That’s good. If you need anything, let me know.” She finished her worried conversation and her voice turned back to its hard professional self. “We’ve caught the local vampire lord.” She was talking to Gregor now.
    “ Wonderful, is he alive?” Gregor was eager for the answer. It was obvious that he had a plan for how to deal with him. Dom vaguely wondered if he was going to offer him up to the shifters in exchange for the losses that they had suffered at his hands. She wondered if he was going to be a sacrifice to make this peace work.
    “ He’s safe. We managed to take him alive. We have him locked up.” Anna was scowling. She didn’t like the risk that this guy brought with him.
    “ Good, we’ll need to schedule a meeting with both the local groups; hopefully we can make this work. Vampires are known to be very unpredictable.
    “ What are you going to do?” Dom asked, wondering if there was going to be a murder carried out in front of her.
    “ I’m going to bring another party to the table, and maybe if we can get the vampires to talk about a cease fire, it will get the others on board.”
    “ Do you think that’s going to work?” Dom had no idea how this was going to work. She was certain that the vampires weren’t just going to give up what they had taken from the others. They were not reasonable or kind. In general they just took what they wanted and those with the most power destroyed those with less power.
    “ It’s worth a try, at least.” Gregor sounded supremely confident in his plan. The problem with it was the fact that vampires and shifters had never really been interested in peace. Raids and fights were a part of their daily lives and if they weren’t ignoring each other they were killing each other. Granted, Dom had just witnessed the worst combat between the two groups in over a hundred years, but she didn’t know if that would be anything other than a hindrance to