ROMANCE: Meet the Parents (Alpha Male Werewolf Shifter Paranormal Romance) (New Adult Shifter Romantic Comedy Short Stories)

by Sicily Duval

  Elena shrugged, “It was probably a guy thing. He’s most likely going to use this time to have car sex with Mama. They’re quite fond of that I think; I told you about what happened on New Year’s Eve last year.”

  Jared shuttered at the reminder, grabbing Elena’s hand and smiling as her nose wrinkled when she realized it was slightly damp. Jared shrugged, just a little happy that his wife was sharing his misery in a very minor way.

  “Still” he said, “I’ll just have to be careful, and definitely avoid dogs at all costs.”

  “We should probably be safe and have you avoid cats too, just in case.”

  Jared nodded, “Yeah, good idea. I’ll just avoid all the pets in Italy.” He groaned, eliciting a smile from his wife. Their long week had just gotten so much longer.

  -x-x-x-

  Elena sat on the edge of the bed, waiting for Jared to get out of the shower. After he had stripped, they had made the determination that his clothes were likely ruined beyond repair and had decided to dispose of them in the trash outside. Jared’s damp phone was drying in a bowl of rice, his keys had been cleaned and sprayed liberally with deodorizer and his money, wallet and cards were all drying on a towel downstairs.

  Elena took the time alone to think. Although she had brushed off Jared’s concerns about his changing the night before, she was a bit worried. She wasn’t quite sure where they could go for the full moon. Every other time of month Jared could chose when he changed and for how long. But on the night of the full moon he had no control whatsoever and had to stay in his wolf form for the entire night.

  The days leading up to the full moon made Jared’s usually perfect control of himself slip a little, but she found it very appealing. During these times Jared got a lot more hands on, and an increase in libido was also one of the perks of the pull of the full moon. Something Elena was definitely not complaining about.

  Elena had asked in town about abandoned or very sparsely populated or traveled woods. Her Italian was rusty though, and from some of the looks and responses from the locals, she was sure that they had thought she was looking for a suitable place to bury a body.

  Her parents’ backyard was off limits, and from Elena’s first experience with Jared’s full moon transformation, she knew staying indoors was certainly not an option. They’d have to get creative.

  Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard the shower turn off, and after a few seconds Jared walked out of the bathroom, a small towel wrapped loosely around his waist. His hair was wet and disheveled from roughly running a towel through it and beads of water dripped down and carved a steady path along his muscular torso.

  Elena let herself get distracted with tracing one of the drop’s path with her eyes and was only broken from her slight daze by a small cough from Jared. She looked up, her eyes locking with his subtly-glowing yellow eyes. He smirked, the almost feral expression on his face sending shivers down her back.

  She stood and walked over to him, hips swinging slightly to distract him before she came to a stop mere inches away. She was going to open her mouth to say something witty when Jared grabbed her by the waist, thrusting their bodies together as he took her lips in a heated kiss.

  She groaned into his mouth, hands coming up to grip his shoulders as his grip tightened around her waist. The next thing Elena comprehended was herself being lifted off the ground, and she briefly registered the movement causing Jared’s towel to fall before she was thrown on the bed. Elena took a moment to drink in the view as Jared panted above her before he began a slow, sensual crawl up the bed.

  “The full moon’s making me a bit jittery” Jared said between trailing kisses up her inner thigh from her ankle. “Do you mind helping me release a bit of the energy?”

  Elena gasped as Jared finished his trail of kisses at her neck, purring as he bit her earlobe teasingly, a gentle hand placed on her waist to hold her down as she attempted to arch up into the contact.

  She wrapped her leg around his lower back, drawing him in closer as she turned his face towards him for another kiss. Jared’s hand was just making its way under her shirt when there came a sharp but firm knock on the bedroom door.

  “Bella, are you two almost ready for dinner?”

  Jared groaned, burying his face in Elena’s neck in frustration. He should have known that if he could count on anything, it would be Mr. Lucciani to be a grade-A cockblock.

  “Yes papa” Elena yelled, kissing Jared’s shoulder in consolation before pushing him off of her gently.

  “This is sabotage” Jared muttered, frowning at his wife’s light hearted laugh.

  “Don’t be so dramatic” Elena admonished, standing up. “Now get dressed and come downstairs for dinner in ten. Take the time to cool off.”

  With one final peck Elena vanished out the door leaving Jared with his thoughts and pent up energy.

  -x-x-x-

  It was the day before the full moon and Jared couldn’t sit still. He was nervous, and his nervousness as palpable to all members of the Lucciani family if Rosa’s concerned looks and Giovanni's scrutinizing ones were anything to go by.

  Jared’s leg bounced up and down beneath the breakfast table and his shaky hands had caused his coffee to spill twice, burning his thigh.

  They had still yet to determine where his change would be taking place and they were cutting it awfully close. Jared had no idea how they were going to pull this off without letting his secret slip to his parents-in-law.

  Elena seemed to be just as concerned as he was, and her eyebrows had been furrowed all morning in deep thought as she went through all of the possibilities. Suddenly, her eyes lit up with that spark that Jared had come to recognize as her having come to a ‘genius’ idea, and he could only wait with bated breath to see what his wife had come up with.

  “Mama, Papa, Jared and I have been talking” Elena began, giving Jared a quick look to ensure that he played along, “and while we’ve loved all the sightseeing, we thought on our last night we would do something different.”

  “Oh?” Rosa asked, her curiosity peaked.

  “Yes, now Mama, Papa, just hear me out alright.”

  “Oh boy” Giovanni said, grinning at his daughter and leaning back in his chair, “sounds like we’re in for some trouble.”

  “Don’t be silly” Elena waved, “now, you two have been living quietly in your domestic life out here, and while it is lovely, we want to take you out for a night of fun. Make you feel twenty years younger again.”

  “And just how do you plan on doing that Bella?” Giovanni chuckled, eyes sparkling in interest.

  “We’re going to take you out drinking. None of your respectable and slow sips of red wine. We’re talking about partying like you’re back in college. Shots after shots and no worrying about your little girl this time, I want you two to go all out.”

  “I don’t know about this Bella” Rosa said skeptically, but from the cursory glance Jared took at Gio, he could tell that Mr. Lucciani was intrigued.

  “Mama, just once, I want to have this one time. If we don’t, one day you may regret not doing this. So I need you to tell me, are you in? Are you ready to have the time of your life?”

  -x-x-x-

  Jared could not believe that his wife had actually managed to pull this off. He was buzzed, but his werewolf body was processing the alcohol fast, and he would be as sober as a judge in about thirty more minutes. Elena was electing to be the responsible one and was sipping on a Diet Coke quietly in the corner of her booth. Elena’s parents, however, were a different story.

  Giovanni had already attempted to start two bar fights, and Rosa had hiked up her long skirt and was dancing with three very amused young men in the center of the dance floor. They were hilarious, and Jared only wished that he could take pictures for the posterity of the moment.

  Elena had somehow convinced her parents to go hit the bars early so that they would be nice and hammered when it was time for the moon to come out.

  Jared checked hi
s watch; they had about an hour before the moon was high in the sky and it was nearing the time when they would have to collect Elena’s parents and wrestle them into bed before Elena took Jared outside into the small backyard to try and ‘supervise’ his transformation.

  Jared looked up as he heard a crash from the front of the bar and burst out laughing when he saw that Giovanni had climbed up onto the bar and had begun shouting that he was the only true man in the facility and challenged anyone in the area to prove him wrong.

  Elena hit Jared on the shoulder, gesturing for him to collect her father. They were out of time; they had to get the Luccianis home fast and hope for the best.

  -x-x-x-

  Jared was haggard, and Elena surprisingly looked even more so. Jared had begun transforming as soon as they had crossed over the house’s threshold, leaving Elena to prop her parents up against the doorway and shuffle her husband out into the backyard.

  Jared couldn’t remember all the details, but from the state of the backyard Jared was sure that Elena hadn’t had an easy time containing him.

  And now, the family sat around the kitchen table, Rosa shocked at the state of her yard and Giovanni demanding to know what monster he had seen running by his window the night before.

  Elena had explained that his father had taken the worm with the half bottle of tequila he had drank and that he was getting confused with the old movies Elena had had him watch in order to get him to sleep.

  Rosa had seemed to buy the story but now everyone was watching Giovanni apprehensively as they waited for him to render a final decision on what he believed happened the night before.

  After a long moment and a heavy sigh, Giovanni put his chin in his hand and met the eyes of all the room’s occupants. “Fine, I’ll accept your story Bella but, I still don’t like him.”

  “It’s the hair dear, I’m sure you’ll like him after he’s shaved.” Rosa added.

  Jared met Elena’s eyes briefly and they managed to hold it in for a second before they both burst out laughing, doubling over with their amusement. Rosa and Giovanni looked at them both perplexed, obviously concerned with their mental health but the couple didn’t care. Jared grabbed his wife’s hand, kissing it exuberantly as they both smiled. They had actually pulled it off. And they knew, despite Giovanni's continued suspicion and Rosa’s insistence that Jared needed a haircut that everything was going to be just fine.

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