Happy Tease-tastic Tuesday! Here's a short, unedited snippet from my current work in progress, Pacts and Promises, which is the first book in my newest series, The Shifters of Trinity.
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Henry Atwater watched his mate
disappear into the café without looking back. His inner wolf snarled, demanding
he go after her. But Henry was strong, and he willed his wolf to calm down.
“What was that?” Kory asked, his
expression puzzled and his voice confused.
Ace didn’t answer Kory. Instead, he
barked a question of his own, “What’re you two doing here?”
Henry’s hackles rose. Ace might be
his future alpha, but he wasn’t alpha yet. “What are you doing here?”
Ace’s dark eyebrows shot up. “I brought
Kent to meet his daughter.”
“Daughter?” Kory frowned. “I thought
he only had two daughters.”
“Yeah, well, he didn’t know about
MacKenzie,” Ace replied. “Her mother left before he found out.”
“He should have known,” Kory
snapped, his irritation evident, as he began to pace. “Everyone in Trinity has
three kids. Seeing that his first wife died before having her third, he should
have suspected something fishy.”
Ace’s already severe face darkened.
“Kent didn’t know.” He growled defensively. “He wouldn’t have ever allowed his
child to be raised away from the pack. He wouldn’t have permitted her being
shielded from our world and our people. It endangers her to be clueless. And
you know, he would never, ever endanger one of his own. So don’t fucking
disrespect him, Korrigan.”
Kory’s face mottled. “Do you always
have to be the alpha’s pet or does it just get you off?”
Ace gave a long, hard snort. “You’re
just jealous, asshole. Someone likes me better than you.”
“He’s the only one,” Kory spat with
venom.
“Whoa!” Henry jumped in before the
two boneheads started bickering and inevitably brawling—like they always did. Imbeciles.
“That’s Kent’s daughter?” His head spun with possibilities, some good and
some pretty damn bad. “With his human mate?” Henry wasn’t normally one to pry.
But this was his mate, and he wanted to know what the hell was going on.
Scowling, Ace nodded. “Yes. That’s
his and Mirabella’s daughter, their nineteen year old daughter. Not that it
pertains to you.”
Ace’s possessiveness ticked Henry
off, and he snapped, “It pertains to me more than you, asshole.”
Ace’s face went ice cold. “I doubt
that.”
Henry didn’t back down. He didn’t
even bat an eye. “She’s my mate, Ace. Not yours.”
Kory rounded on Henry, growling.
“What the ever loving fuck, Henry? She’s mine.”
Oh. Hell. No.
“No,” Ace ground out. “She’s mine.”
Fuck. Surely, the gods hadn’t given the three of them a mate to
share. They didn’t get along on their best day. How could they ever share a
woman?
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I hope y'all enjoyed a sneak peek into the story of Mackenzie Blackburn, Ace Gallagher, Henry Atwater, and Kory Sherwood. Check back next week for more! XOXOXO!
Love and cherries,
-Mia
