Page 39 of The Doctor's Wolf: Part Two
Maxim made a low hissing sound.“I heard.Where are you?”
“Near the hospital.In the fucking sun.”
Gordon could hear movement on Maxim’s end.“So go and find shade.I’ll be there in a few minutes.Keep eyes on the roommate for me, please.”
“Will do.”
Maxim ended the call, and Jason’s eyes went wide.He looked like he hadn’t slept properly in a while.
“Someone’s…actually helping.”
“His name’s Uncle Maxim,” Mil said.
Gordon cleared his throat.“He’s a hunter, and he’s on his way.”
Jason wiped his forehead, ran his hand over what was approximately three days’ worth of stubble.“Thanks, thank you so much.I can’t believe I just ran into you after all of that.”
Mil pulled on Gordon’s hand, pointing to one of the many benches that stood around the courtyard.“Gordon, look.There’s shade over there.I can read there.Will you please come with me?”
Gordon smiled.My pack.“Right.Jason, we’re waiting over there.Join us.”
Chapter 21
Maximwalkedtowardthemnot ten minutes later.Jason gaped at the sight of the blond vampire with his long hair braided and his hunter’s blacks standing out all the darker in the light.Gordon had long since assumed all the looks Maxim got were part of the reason he liked his hunter outfit fitting as snugly as it did.Then again, the outfit probably allowed him all the freedom of movement he needed to use the two swords he was carrying to cut off heads and such.
“That’s Uncle Maxim,” Mil said, jumping to her feet.
The hunter smiled like a kid being given extra candy for Halloween.“Well, yes, Milea!That’s exactly right.I’m Uncle Maxim.What a very good wolf you are.”
She nodded.“Gordon needs to go inside.It’s too warm here.We wanted to go and buy books.”
Maxim put his hands on his hips.“I see.You can never have enough books, and it was especially good of you to wait for me.”From a pocket hidden in his hunter’s blacks, he produced a slim wallet, and Gordon watched in mild shock as he pulled out a few bills and handed them to the little wolf.“There.Shop responsibly.”
“Uh, Maxim, you don’t—”
Maxim shook his head.“I have to, Gordon.I’m Uncle Maxim now, and this is what a good uncle does.You two can go.”He turned to Jason who was still staring.“Jason, I assume.We should talk.If you’ll follow me?”
Jason nodded.“Sure.And thank you, thank you so much.”
“Not for this.This is my work, the thing I have been doing for a long time and am quite good at.It brings me pleasure but rarely, but it is necessary.”
The hunter sounded ominous.Gordon hoped nothing bad had happened to the roommate, nothing that actually required Maxim’s presence.Or that of his swords.
“Good luck,” he said and watched as the two of them walked away, but he didn’t get to watch for long.Mil took his hand.
“We should go.You don’t have to use your collectible money now.We can split this.”
The small wolf was serious as she waved the book money from…Uncle Maxim, and Gordon wasn’t sure whether it was a Mil thing or yet another werewolf thing.It didn’t really matter.They headed to the subway on their quest to buy some books.
The two of them spent nearly two hours in Gordon’s favorite and well-stocked bookstore in downtown New Amsterdam.They had a café as well, and Mil had hot chocolate while trying to decide which books to pick out of her pile.
Gordon had found a series of manga done by one of the people who’d worked on Kawaii Demon Hunter.He’d never heard about the manga series, presumably because it was romance while Kawaii Demon Hunter was marketed as action.Kawaii Demon Hunter only turned romance in fan fic writing.Yet, Gordon was excited.Deciding to grab the entire series still took him a half hour, it feeling so much like an overindulgence.He and Mil left the bookstore with a big bag full of books each.
“Should we have gotten Adler something?”Mil asked when they were on the subway, their bags sitting on their laps.
“Oh.You’re right.I didn’t think… He once said he likes watching me read.”
The little wolf nodded as if that made sense.
