Only After Dark The Boxed Set Books 1 - 4: Shifters Forever Worlds (36 page)

E
vie rolled
over in her bed, relishing the sounds of Arceneaux Point, the scent of Arceneaux Point. And everything was made perfect because Mason was here with her.

“Mason.” His name slid off her lips with ease, as if years had not passed without each other.

His teeth nipped at her jaw line, traveling downward, and his tongue trailed hotness down her neck to the neckline of her sleep T-shirt.

“I want you,” he snarled as his fingers played with the fabric.

Evie’s breath escaped her quickly with each movement as he traced patterns into the cotton material. Each motion his fingers made, teased and tortured her. She craved him.

His lips landed on hers in a kiss that was tender. And then, just as quickly, his fingers turned into claws and shredded the fabric.

He leaned back, studying the creamy tops of her breasts, ivory swells rising above her ribcage.

“Beautiful.” Mason’s fingertips traced her skin, teasing her in the most delicious of ways that culminated in a buzzing that ran the length of her body. His fingertips tiptoed their way down the middle of her sternum, over her abdomen. “I need you,” he rumbled, touching the hem on her panties.

The sound of the panting coming from her mouth was the only thing Evie could hear.

“I want you, too.” She wanted everything he was, and everything they had been. She wanted his strength, his easy smile, the intensity behind his dark eyes, and his love to be for her.

She couldn’t stop her hands from drifting to his shoulders. His muscles flexed beneath her hands. She forked her fingers through his hair.

His tongue followed the path his fingers had created, leaving a hot trail from the top of her breasts to the center of her stomach, drifting down to her panties. He ran the course of her panties, tracing the elastic from hip to hip.

“Jesus,” he groaned, pushing at her hips and thighs.

Evie raised her lower body while he pulled her panties down.

Mason’s breath was hot, warming her, a forerunner of the heat and pleasure he would deliver between her legs.

She released a groan and it pushed him further. He continued to travel downward, every gust of his breath warmed her body. He licked his way lower.

Her clit throbbed.

He nipped at the tender skin.

She closed her eyes, expecting him to lick her slowly.

Evie jumped when his entire face dove into her with a ferocity that revealed his hunger. Her body ached with desire for him—too much time apart. Her breath rushed in and out, lungs burning with a need for air.

Mason’s lips sucked on her, teasing, then releasing with a popping sound that drove her desire. He devoured her repeatedly, mercilessly, until finally he thrust his tongue into her, going in, then out, pleasing her.

Her hands grabbed the sheets, gripping tightly. She bit down on her lip to keep from begging.

The moan that came made his tongue move faster. “Please,” she whispered. Electricity flowed through her blood. Her toes curled. “Mason.” Her pitch and tone were almost a scream.

“What?” Mason’s voice was more of a growl.

“I need you.” Her impatient fingers traveled to his hair, pushing his face closer to her desire, taking his tongue deeper.

She flinched in surprise and pleasure when he slipped a finger in and moved his mouth to her clit and began sucking while his finger pleasured her.

A low moan began and rose to a crescendo, as she climaxed swiftly and brutally, clamping her thighs around his head.

Evie’s body trembled. An occasional aftershock ripped through her, making her flinch and jerk in his arms.

T
he lion
in Mason pulled at him to take her to make her his.

Forever.

Also to give her what she needed. No-- What they both needed. He wanted to be so deep inside her that she’d pulse against his cock when she climaxed. Each of her peaks would create a tightening that pressed him to a climax of his own.

He’d never forgotten that. He wanted that back.

He groaned against her mouth.

“Are you ready to be mine?”

“Yes.”

With a thrust that spoke of his urgent need for this woman, for her tigress, for their ultimate bonding, he dropped his boxers and with one smooth motion, slid inside, all the way.

He fit in her just as he always had—perfectly. They were made for each other.

A deep sigh slipped out in a whoosh at his imminent homecoming to the woman he’d never stopped loving.

He paused, relishing her body, her tightness, and the way her muscles gripped him.

He started slow and intense, with a rhythm that matched the passion he’d kept penned up all this time. Each time his cock slipped out, his lion growled to be back inside her.

His lion didn’t let Mason keep a slow pace. He began to stroke, powerfully and vigorously, his body tight like an elastic band ready to snap any moment.

He pushed into her, his eyes locked with hers. Her tigress growled and his lion picked it up, roaring in return. His rhythm became quicker and built to a frantic pace, each thrust resulting in an exhaled breath.

Sheer primal lust and a need to have his mate with him without interference pushed him faster and faster, as he began to lose control. His body traveled toward the point of no return as the volcano within him began to careen.

A light sheen of perspiration made Evie’s face glisten. He studied her features while he lowered his face to hers, kissing her lips, tasting the very essence of her on her mouth.

He felt her orgasm begin as she tightened around him and tried to scream. He drank her scream in while he grunted as a pulse of his release began to come undone.

Dropping his head, Mason sank his teeth into the tender spot at the corner of her shoulder and neck. He bit fiercely, taking no prisoners—except Evie, and in return giving her himself.

He licked the spot, tasting the metallic flavor of her blood, sealing an irreversible covenant between them with a couplebond.

Her hands rose and buried themselves in his hair. She brought his head to hers for a kiss, her tongue tasting his, yielding to his, and at the same time, taking charge.

He pulled away slightly. “It’s done.”

She smiled. “It’s very done. And it’s just starting.”

He collapsed next to her, his head resting on her breast, listening to her heartbeat, listening to his own sync with hers.

“Mason?”

“Mmm?” He’d almost drifted to sleep.

“What would you think about traveling?”

The oddness of her question made the drowsiness diminish. “Traveling’s fine. Why?”

“I thought maybe we could visit Valencia and Rory sometime.” Her voice became sleepy.

He kissed her shoulder.

“Anything you want. Anywhere you want.”

“Mmmhmmm.” She drew the sound of agreement out as her eyelids began to close.

He kissed the tender spot that had already healed where he’d marked her as his.

Forever.

“I love you.”

“Me too.” Her response was murmured while a smile drifted to her lips.

I
hope
you enjoyed our visit to sultry steamy Louisiana! I have to tell you, I’ve fallen so in love with the characters that I’ve got a couple of extra stories headed your way. For one I feel that Leandra and Theo’s story must come out! Then there’s also Étienne and Celine’s story.

And I won’t give any spoilers away but expect to see one of more of our Louisiana shifters. Especially one. I have plans for that one!

I’ve teased you enough! I hope you’re ready for the next step in the Shifters Forever Worlds! Keep reading for more on that!

S
HIFTERS FOREVER SERIES

Are you ready for it?

I
have
a whole world full of shifters to share with you. I’m listing them here, in the suggested reading order, though I’ve tried to make it so that you can pick up anywhere in the series as we all have probably done that at one point or another.

W
here’s
the best place to start? Well, probably with
Shifters Forever
.

Shifters Forever
starts the series off with grizzly bear shifters and their mates that steam up the pages in these swoon-worthy paranormal romances. From trespassers with hidden agendas to curvaceous women who are ready to take a chance, the stories in this collection will capture your heart. 

•
Protection

• Seduction

• Persuasion

• Invitation

• Temptation

• Attraction

A
lways After Dark
is a spinoff with the white tiger from Shifters Forever: Vax, born Vittorio Tiero. He’s the one that helped Kane out during a shifter battle.

Follow the Tiero family, a group of white tiger shifters, as they head to America to find love... and heart-stopping danger. Full of romance, suspense, and gritty drama, this red-hot collection is sure to entertain!

• Controversy

• Territory

• Adversary

• Sanctuary

N
ever After Dark
is another spinoff that takes place in Europe. Here we visit cities along the Mediterranean and meet the old school Tiero white tiger shifters who are resistant to change.

Enter a world of sex, secrets, and forbidden love. Shifters who can turn into tigers, leopards, and panthers must decide who they can trust — and who they can’t live without.

• Forbidden

• Forsaken

• Forgotten

• Foreplay

O
nly After Dark
takes place in New Orleans. The Arceneaux shifters, led by Lézare, Vax’s white tiger cousin—on his mother’s side. The Arceneaux are the black sheep of the family. Lézare doesn’t cave to public opinion. He dictates policy in the area he rules and he shuns old school European rules and regimes.

• Desirable

• Insatiable

• Combustible

• Undeniable

F
orever After Dark
introduces us to a group of panthers that are related to Gavin’s Irish mother’s side. The panthers are related to elemental types like Mae and Astra. This is the stronghold of Mae’s cousins: Marco, the panther and Circe the powerful elemental who leads the OE (the Order of Elementals). The group that Mae shunned long ago.

• Notorious

• Scandalous

• Delicious

• Perilous

S
hifters
Forever After
follows a group of polar bears in New York. Russian and rumored to be mobbed up, they are a powerhouse of shifters, determining the fate of many on the East Coast. Mikhail Romanoff, Layla’s father, runs this outfit with an iron fist. Layla’s sexy cousin Malachi features prominently in this series.

• Complication

• Fascination

• Motivation

• Flirtation

• Captivation

• Infatuation

S
hifters
Forever More
is another group of grizzlies spun off from our favorite bunch in Bear Canyon Valley. Tempers and passions flare when the bears have to face a set of old enemies of Sara’s. Crossroads.

• Illusion

• Confusion

• Decision

• Possession

• Impression

• Passion

u
nbound
features Mae Forester’s nephew Dane Forester
, a freewheeling, sexy, successful, movie star who uses every role and every woman to escape and forget the heartbreak he left in Woodland Creek.

• Unbound

b
arely after dark
More of Mae Forester’s nephews! Grizzly bear shifters steam up the pages in these swoon-worthy paranormal romances. From trespassers with hidden agendas to curvaceous women who are ready to take a chance, the stories in this collection will capture your heart.

• Cross

• Lance

• Judge

I
do hope
you’ll be able to join me on this wonderful journey with our Shifters Forever Shifters and their mates!

Hugs, Elle!

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