The Seed of the White Tiger by JJ Jones Page B

don’t want people hanging out on my property forever.” The thought of having people on her property just hanging around disturbed her.
     
    “That’s fine. I’ll go back in there and arrange it.” Gregor bent in to kiss her check, but she froze so he pulled away. Public displays of affection made her a little nervous and she didn’t know how to respond to him at all. He backed away and left the room, leaving Dom to her thoughts.
     
    She could hear him walk back into the room. The speaker started talking about arrangements that were to be made. They set up a schedule of guards; each tribe of shifters had a day to guard then a day off. They could send whomever they thought could do the job the best. Before they finished the conversation Gregor spoke again. He addressed the leader of the coyotes. “Be careful. They’ve threatened everyone else, and they might come after you next.”
     
    “I know. I know. I’ll keep a look out. My mate died not long ago and we had no children, so they
    have to figure out some other way to threaten me.” The coyote explained.
     
    The wolf’s voice was thoughtful. “You might have an advantage with them.”
     
    There was a moment of silence before Gregor spoke. “We still need to talk about the land.” His voice was firm, very obvious that he still wanted to get to the root of the matter.
     
    “I know.” The wolf stated, his voice was terse, threatening to become unyielding. “For now, they can stay on the land.”
     
    “Do they have anything that they could offer you, to make you more likely to give them the land?” He asked the wolf.
     
    “I don’t know of anything that they could offer us. They’re scavengers that mostly work in junk yards and gather trash to sell online.
     
    “ We’re great appraisers and can find a buyer for anything.” The coyote tried to defend himself. It was obvious that the wolves still thought that coyotes weren’t worth anything. Dom shook her head as she listened to the conversation. Both parties starting going round and round about the entire situation and even though there was a consensus on some parts, other parts were having trouble.

Chapter7
     
     
    Dom was piling another plate of food when Gregor walked into the room, looking dire. “It’s done for today. I’m afraid I can’t find anything that the coyotes have to offer.” He paused and looked at her plate. The sight that he saw shocked him a little. He gawked for a long moment before he got the nerve up to ask her about the food that was on her plate. “Is that sausage?” He asked. “I thought you were a vegetarian.”
     
    “I just wanted some meat. It’s ok for vegetarians to eat meat occasionally, as long as we don’t go crazy about it.” Dom defended her meal choice. Her cravings for meat had been getting worse and worse as time went on. She was sure it was the shifter that was growing inside of her. The child was making her crave meat.
     
    “If you’re still hungry, we can wait.” Gregor grabbed another plate and started to fill it. “I’m a little hungry myself.”
     
    “From the looks of the way you’re filling that plate, I would say that you’re more than a little hungry.” Dom teased him.
     
    Gregor laughed. “That might be true, but I got a lot of exercise last night had hadn’t eaten a whole lot since I got here.”
     
    “That’s not my fault.”
     
    Gregor snickered once again. “Whenever you’re ready to go, let me know.” He looked at her as she piled her plate just as high as his was. It was obvious that the woman was hungry as well, and from the amount of sausage on the plate it looked almost identical to his.
     
    They finished eating in silence; furtive glances were being shot at each other over the table. If the rest of the people in the room took notice, they were smart enough not to say anything in front of the shifter and the witch.
     
    Dom picked up her bag and followed him out of the room. “What about the items