Werewolf Boyfriend Rudolf 2 (special preview)

Rudolf then shrugs and sighs. “Still, how do I know I can trust you? After all these years? For all I know, right after I left, you were taken in by a den of conglomerate candy makers and trained up to steal all my ideas and recipes for them.”

I look at him, cocking my head to the side while he grins. “If I paid you to say that again, could you?”

“No,” Rudolf shakes his head. “But even still, you can’t see this book.” He picks it up and clutches it to his chest. “Most of these aren’t ready or even tested. I don’t want you to see something and get your hopes up.” 

“Well, what do you have for me today?” I ask.

“Good question,” he stands up and offers me his hand. “We’ll have to go downstairs for that.”

I take his hand, enjoying the way he laces his fingers with mine. He takes me downstairs, leading me through a hidden door in the wall and down into the kitchen of his candy shop. 

“The gummy bears I spilled last night were the first one,” he huffs. “Unfortunately, I spilled those everywhere.” He pulls out a tray from one of the tall cooling racks. He lays it down on the counter and lets me look over what is there.

Each corner has a different set of candy. One looks like caramels, the other looks like glossy hard candies, and then there are two types of chocolate.

“I came up with this one when I was trying to figure out the recipe for wolf’s milk,” he says, picking up one of the caramels.

“Wolf’s milk?” I ask.

Rudolf nods. “It’s something my mom started working on ages ago. When I was first born, I started shifting really early and it caused me a lot of discomfort. She noticed that there were several other babies dealing with the same thing, so she wanted to create a special drink or food for were pups suffering from early shifting.” He motions over to the freezer. “We’ve perfected a formula and she’s started giving it to new mothers in Hearthway Hollow. We get orders for it from all over the world now.”

“That’s amazing!” I gasp.

“It’s pretty good in milkshakes too,” he chuckles then offers me the caramel. “This, however, was one of the failures, but it turned out to be an amazing base for diabetes safe caramels. I put a touch of sea salt on top to counterbalance the sweetness of it.”