Jacks, Marcy - Eli's Reluctant Mate [DeWitt's Pack 5] (Siren Publishing Everlasting Classic ManLove)
Authors: Marcy Jacks
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DeWitt’s Pack 5
Eli’ s Reluctant Mate
Eli Martin has sunk into a severe depression after the death of his brother. He hides his grief behind cheap liquor, and he hardly cares that his alpha is considering banishing him from the pack.
Until he meets Chris Lefroy, the gorgeous man with the multi colored eyes who offers Eli some of his humanity back.
Though Chris feels something for Eli, he is insistent that he is straight, and wants nothing to do with the dangers of being mated to a werewolf, while Eli is suddenly finding himself wanting to become the man he knows he can be, and whom he knows his mate deserves.
Eli is forced to come to terms with the fact that Chris will be in constant danger if he stays, always a target of the wild werewolves. Eli struggles with the idea of whether or not it is responsible of him to convince Chris to stay, lest Chris pay the ultimate price.
Genre:
Alternative (M/M or F/F), Paranormal,
Vampires/Werewolves
Length:
32,361 words
ELI’S RELUCTANT MATE
DeWitt’s Pack 5
Marcy Jacks
EVERLASTING CLASSIC
MANLOVE
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ELI’S RELUCTANT MATE Copyright © 2012 by Marcy Jacks E-book ISBN: 978- 1-62241-519-9
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ELI’S RELUCTANT MATE
DeWitt’s Pack 5
MARCY JACKS
Copyright © 2012
Chapter One
The first rule of surviving as a werewolf was to stay away from all the normal people. Werewolves weren’t allowed to be overly social with humans beyond what was necessary. It created too many complications if some human got too close, too chummy with the werewolf in question, and they started to figure things out.
The only reason for being in the same room with someone not of the paranormal variety for more than an hour was for the basics. Buying food, clothing, or if a mate was scented nearby.
The second rule was that werewolves weren’t allowed to get drunk in bars, partly because it was linked in to the first rule, and alsobecause it called into question the behavior of the wolf getting wasted.
Werewolves were fast healers with amazing metabolism, making it difficult to get drunk, but enough alcohol down the chute and anything was possible.
It was a risk because of the way the alcohol impaired judgement and thinking. People did stupid things while they were intoxicated, and a werewolf could not afford to be stupid in front of humans.
Last week, Eli, being too far gone to notice, had taken off his clothes and transformed into his wolf after last call had been
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announced and he’d been getting ready to head home sometime after midnight. He’d thought he was alone as he did it behind the bar, but had been too drunk to scent that kid nearby.
Eli hadn’t even known about him until his alpha, James DeWitt, woke him up the next day with a bucket of ice over the head and a newspaper shoved into his face, telling the story of how a teen boy had cried wolf after getting drunk at the local bar.
Luckily the writer had been more interested in putting the bar owner on the spot for selling to minors, and nothing else was said about the werewolf the drunk kid had supposedly seen.
Eli had never seen James look so pissed, and with his scarred face, it wasn’t hard for him to appear angry.
James had always been a softy, however, and Eli had been let off with a warning, which Eli was promptly ignoring as he downed the last of his Blue and signalled for another.
The new bottle thrust into his hands was cold, and the beer went
down his throat the exact same way, which was welcome on a
scorcher such as this.
It seemed the heat outside was doing its best to overthrow the power of that weak-ass air conditioner, because it was fucking hot in here.
At least the heat was a better subject to think about than his dead
brother.
Oh Christ, he’d just thought of him again.
Eric, I’m so sorry
.
Not nearly drunk enough. Eli threw his head back and let the beer slide down his throat. He’d need another one of these quickly if he was going to get hammered.
The bartender came back and cleared away the empty bottles, shaking his head and muttering about where Eli put it all.
The man had been a loyal servant as far as getting the drinks went, because Eli had always been quick to offer up the payment for what he consumed.
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Now, however, he’d long since ran out of any money he’d managed to save, and Isaac had refused to loan him anymore.
Eli was on a bar tab, and he didn’t give a shit if he ever managed to pay it back.
Something hard poked his shoulder.
Eli ignored it and opened his next bottle with his teeth, spitting out the cap.
At first he thought he’d imagined the tap on his shoulder, but then it came back, and he had to acknowledge the annoying feel of it.
He tilted his head enough to see what was up behind him.
The angry face of some guy Eli had never seen before glared down at him.
Eli went back to his beer.
“Hey! You look at me, you fucking freak.”
Nope
.
The guy didn’t try to grab his shoulder or anything when Eli ignored him, but instead he went and sat down on the stool next to Eli’s.
“My kid tells me you’re the guy who was getting undressed in
front of him.”
“Your kid’s a liar,” Eli said, unfazed. It had been forever since
he’d bothered himself with taking anyone to bed, and never had he done it with someone who looked remotely underage.
“You’re gonna regret saying that, you fucking pervert,” said the angry father. “Don’t know what you drugged him with, making him see shit like that, but he tells me you were taking off your clothes right in front of him.”
Oh. That kid that Eli had accidentally transformed in front of.
Well, shit
.
“The fuck is your problem?”
“To be fair, I didn’t see him there,” Eli said, still not bothering to
look at the guy.
“You piece of shit.”
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Something hard smashed into the side of Eli’s skull. White
exploded behind his vision and then colorful dots as he was thrown from his stool and landed on the filthy wooden floor.
Maybe he was a littler drunker than he’d originally thought.
The guy that punched him stood over him now, and Eli’s inner wolf didn’t even give a shit that he was being dominated by some