Defense Mechanism (Bad Little Falls #5)
E.C. Dane
He's been saying it with flowers for ten years. Nobody's asked the elephant how he is in eighteen.
Miles Pratt is a skunk, an alpha, and the most careful man in Bad Little Falls. He runs Stems, the flower shop on Dock Street. He changes the library's flowers every Thursday based on the librarian's mood. He has been in love with the librarian for ten years and has expressed this exclusively through floral arrangements because words require closing a distance that everyone else keeps open.
Bernard Willoughby is an elephant, an omega, and the town librarian. He remembers everything. Every checkout. Every overdue book. Every flower delivery. Every time Miles walked past the window. He has never once been asked what he needs, because elephants carry things and the carrying looks like fine.
Miles doesn't flinch. Bernard doesn't forget.
When Miles walks into the library on a Tuesday instead of a Thursday and asks for a book about elephants, Bernard's hands shake for the first time in eighteen years of shelving.
Then there's a clearing. A bond. A biological event that Wyatt files as a level-three biohazard. A produce section incident that happened in 2016 and did not, this time, repeat. And a town that knew before either of them did, because the town always knows, because the town has a hummingbird.
Defense Mechanism is a cozy, high-heat M/M shifter romance with fated mates, flower language, a perfect memory, a produce section that has recovered, and a guaranteed HEA. Fifth in the Bad Little Falls series. Includes a bonus short story.
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