Surprise Mating (15 page)

“How in the hell is this possible?” Pilar said and stepped back and looked at her brother.

“
I have no idea, I just can’t remember, something is, like, blocking it,” Phillip said and ran a hand through his hair.

“
You mean to tell me that all this time we have been working against ourselves?” Pilar said frustrated.

“
No,” Brooks said as he stepped into the room.  “No, someone was working against you, but not to hurt you, to protect you.  There is a spell, I can feel it, and we need to unlock it.”

“
Great, now you want to talk to me?” Pilar scoffed.

“
Look, I told you it wasn’t time, then.  Now it is, can’t you feel it?  He is your mate, and he is dying, unless we figure out what the hell they did to him, we will lose him.  I am not willing to let that happen.  Now, work with me!” Brooks barked.

“
Ha, for years you have been ignoring our bond, and now you want to use it like a fucking talisman? Forget it, I will find a way to save him and you can go and fuck yourself.  I am sick of you thinking I can be put on hold forever.  This was my life you were fucking with, mine!”  Pilar screamed.

“
And I have suffered just as much, but we had to wait.  Our mate was not here yet,” Brooks said gruffly.

“
Oh please, you didn’t want to bother because you wanted to do what you wanted when you wanted and how you wanted.  Don’t try to sugar coat this shit,” Pilar said and Phillip held up his hand.

“
I think I am gonna give you guys some space here to deal with this.  Sister, call me when you are ready,” Phillip said, laughed, and went to Brooks and patted him on the shoulder.  “Good luck with that. Remember—she can breathe fire.”

“
He is going to need more than luck,” Pilar grumbled.

Denver Pack Series

Alpha's Mate

Tey's White Wolf

Devon: The Beta's Double Trouble

Cloe: Two for the Bite of One

Reggie:  A Wolf's Changing Heart

Blaine:  A Wolf's Second Sight

Lacy: Seeing Double

Jordan's Misunderstanding

Trinity: Heart of the Shifters

Argus:  Meeting the Challenge

Trace: Following His Destiny

Shea: The Last Hope

Denver Pack Twelve 1/2

Chosen Wars Series

Cat
’s Choice

Dante
’s Dream

Finally Home
– Taming of a White Wolf

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Dangerous Series

Dangerous Trio

Dangerous Two

Dangerous Finale

Dangerous: Working Against the Clock

Dangerous: Off Limits

Dangerous: All Bark and No Bite

Cassidy Family Series

Playing With Zack

Killing Jared

Holiday Surprise

Drekinn Series

The Mating Call

Healing Cherri

Mob Moms’ Christmas

Reaching Rissa

Surprise Mating

Taming Team Ten

Boots, Chaps, and Cowboy Hats

Raising a Cowgirl

Meridian Warriors by Jana Leigh and Zach Collins

Meridian Warriors: Xander and Des

Meridian Warriors Book Two – Coming soon

Shifter Justice by Jana Leigh and Bryce Evans

Perfect Reflections

Infiltrating the Pack
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Denver Pack Book One

By Jana Leigh

Quin went into his office and answered the phone that was blinking at him,
“Hello Father.”

“
Son, what progress have you made with the Rogues?” A gruff voice responded to him.  His father, never a man for long discussions, was always quick and to the point.  When he was growing up, his mother was the one who dispensed the hugs.  His father, though Quin knew he loved him, was more serious.  His father also believed the Alpha of every Pack had a greater responsibility than even to his own family.  This is where they differed.  When Quin finally found his mate, he was going to make sure she knew exactly how important she was to him.  His children would know the same love his mother had shown him.

“
We had a skirmish last night in a suburb, but so far we can’t seem to find their lair.  I hope they will show themselves soon.  We have heard their Alpha is a wolf named Roark, but we haven’t been able to find him,” Quin said turning in his chair so he could watch the last of the sun setting.

“
You may have to send out more patrols.  I heard from Roan in Northern Ireland, and his Alpha in the States is having problems too.  He has lost three females and one Enforcer in the last week.  You need to watch the Pack,” his father warned.

“
I know what is at stake here, father.  I will talk to my Beta and the Enforcers.  We are planning a retreat next week, but I do not want to leave the Pack unguarded.  We may have to postpone, at least while this mess remains.  They will understand, even if they are itching to run,” Quin said.

“
I agree.  Do you need any more people?  I could send your brother and a few others to help,” his father asked. 

Quin sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose.  He was the Alpha of this Pack.  He loved his father, but he was still set in the old ways.

“Let me talk it over with the others, I will let you know.  I may have to have some more help if they try to take one of our females,” Quin replied.

They spoke for a few more minutes, and then Quin hung up the phone, hoping he would be able to give his father a better report the next time he spoke to him.  He didn
’t want his brothers to come here unless the need arose for that particular action.  They were all working on settling their own Packs.  All except for his youngest brother Adrian, who was just concluding his training.  He hoped to offer the young wolf a place in his Pack.  It had been too long since he had seen his family, and he wanted to have that connection again.

He had no clue what the Rogue wolves were trying to do.  Taking female wolves was an act of war, soon he would have no choice but to hunt and kill the Rogues if they could not get them under control. 

He could hear loud voices in the outer office and sighed again.  What else could happen today?  It had been a long day already, and he wanted to have a nice quiet dinner and go to bed.

Just before he reached the door, it burst open and his Beta fell in the room.  Devon was larger than most of his wolves, so he nearly took up the entire space when he sprawled on the floor.  Being the Beta of the Pack, Devon was the strongest wolf.  Quin never wanted to find out who would win if they fought for Alpha, he suspected it would be a close fight.

“Get your ass out of my way,” he heard a female growl come from just outside the room.

Quin laughed when Devon jumped up and looked at him with red cheeks. 
“She caught me off guard.”

“
Right, we’ll go with that, if it’s how you want to spin it.”  Quin agreed and poked his head out of his office to see who had thrown his Beta through the door.  It must have been a large female wolf to do this kind of damage.

He laughed even harder when he saw the small sprite before him.  A small blonde woman stood there tapping her foot with impatience.  Wow, she was beautiful.  Long flowing hair pulled back into a high ponytail and voluptuous curves, the woman stood a good foot below him.  It made him feel like he was a giant.  Quin grinned and looked at the woman with more interest.  He wondered why she was here.  He knew every member of his Pack, and she definitely did not belong.

“Listen buster, I have been sitting out here for the last two hours, waiting patiently for the head dog to come and meet with me.  I no longer have the time, or the inclination to sit here.  Tell your overly important man when he makes an appointment; he should have the courtesy to show up.”  The woman fumed, turned on her heel, and stomped to the elevators.

The Chosen
’s War Book One

By Jana Leigh

“You will not keep me from her, wolf,” Diavolo snarled, as he twisted Adolfo’s arm back further.  “She is mine and will always be mine.”

Suddenly, Adolfo turned on Diavolo and somehow got the
vampire under him again.

“
She is not yours, vampire.”  Adolfo growled into his ear, “I will kill you before I allow you to take her.”

Adolfo started to change into his wolf.  His face elongated, and his claws came out.  He pushed the
vampire further into the carpeted floor.

Then his eyes met hers. 
“Caterina, run.  Go to where we planned, as we have talked about doing.  Go there and they will keep you safe.  Run now, Caterina, and never look back.”

At first, her legs couldn't move, but then she found herself flying down the stairs.  She picked up her purse, car keys, the plane tickets that were sitting on the table next to the front door, and then she opened the door to run out.

She looked back at her long-time friend and guardian to see that he had now fully changed and was holding the vampire down by his teeth around Diavolo’s throat.  Adolfo looked up at her, and their eyes met.  She saw then something she had never seen in his eyes before.  She looked at his side and saw the blood that was matted in his fur and dripping from his side.  She knew at that moment that Adolfo knew he would not survive this fight, that he would not be able to go with her and protect her anymore.

Tears fell from her eyes as she looked into his again. 
“I love you, Adolfo.”

He just growled his response, but she knew it was him telling her he loved her too.

With that she raced out the door and jumped in her car.  She was still in her pajamas and had no luggage with her to take, but she didn’t care; she just needed to get as far away from there as possible.  She peeled out of the driveway and sped down the road.  As she turned the corner on to the road that would take her to the airport, she heard a howl of pain breaking through the night, and knew her dearest and closest friend was dying—dying to save her from a fate worse than death.  She sobbed as she sped along the road.  She was alone now, all those she loved were now gone. 

She looked in her rear-view mirror to make sure Diavolo wasn
’t right behind her.  But when she met her own eyes in the mirror, she couldn’t help but cry harder.  No, Caterina didn’t see hope when she looked at herself.  She never saw hope, and she doubted she ever would.  There was no god—there was no hope.

Excerpt from the Mating Call

The Drekinn Series Book One

By Jana Leigh

"Hello?" Calli yelled as sweetly as she could, waiting to see if her friends were close, or if the assholes that kidnapped her were intelligent enough to see she was awake, come in here, and tell her what the hell was going on.

In the distance, she could hear her friends cussing.  Cherri's voice came out the clearest as she screamed, "Muther fucking assholes, come back in here and show me what kind of men you really are.  PUSSIES!"

Well, someone woke up on the wrong side of the drug-induced coma.  Calli wanted to laugh hysterically.  If any of them got free, they were going to kill their captors, or seriously disfigure them.

"Cherri shut the fuck up.  Where the hell are we?" Calli yelled and waited while her friends, who were obviously together, argued.

"Cherri, seriously, answer her, you have got to stop the screeching," Rissa said calmly.  Calli wanted to laugh, because out of all of them, Cherri was the most levelheaded, unless she was given drugs, it pissed her off since she was a doctor.  She lectured them constantly on putting foreign chemicals in their bodies.  Like caffeine, Calli had to have at least three cups of coffee in the morning as well as a shot of caffeine in the afternoon. 
They didn't make it like they used to,
she thought.  Coffee had been deemed bad for you, so therefore, the days where you could get a double shot of espresso were gone.  Now when you ordered a cup of coffee, you were lucky if you got a slight nervous buzz from it.

So many things had changed over the years.  When the
Breyting,
or magical community, came out of the closet, suddenly everything changed.  Besides the fact that Central Park was overran with shifters running in the open, the humans thought they could control things.  They just didn't realize they had been around for a lot longer than humans.  So they did what any normal race would do, they tried to fight them.  That lasted for only a few years until the Drekinn Agency stepped forward and compromised.  The damage was done though.  Caffeine was labeled bad for shifters just because one stupid dragon had gone crazy on a caffeine buzz.  Really, if anyone drank twelve cups of coffee to stay awake for a midterm, they would have reacted the same.  However, the college had not appreciated their classroom being torched just because the guy was jittery and misinterpreted the guy next to him handing him a test for an attack.   

It was the little things that pissed off the humans.  Calli heard a door open and swung towards the door.  They may have her chained to the wall with silver, a big misconception by the way, but if she could get free, it wouldn't even leave a mark.  Silver only drained the shifter's powers for a little while, but it wouldn't kill them.  No, the only way to kill a shifter was the normal way, a bullet through the head.  And that was only if you were a good shot.  Most shifters were too fast and could react, but they couldn't heal from a bullet to the brain.  In other words, whoever took them had a purpose.  One Calli didn't think she was going to like.

The door opened to the cell she was in and her heart sank a little.  Yep, she was going to die.  Calli hung her head and shook it in resignation.  She could hear the murmur of voices outside the door. 
Great
, when she was done with this asshole, she had to kill the others.  The man was strangely proportioned with a large body and small arms, though his hands were huge.  His long, greasy, unwashed hair added to his disgusting appearance.  She totally would not fuck him, even if she were paid.  His face was the ugliest thing she had seen in a long while, with brown, dirty teeth and a thin mouth.

"Seriously, you fuckers are gonna pay for this," Calli growled and then pulled against the chains.  They had her chained against a wall, spread eagled, with her hands and feet bound and then chains crisscrossing her chest.  Her feet weren
’t even touching the ground, so she couldn't get any momentum to move.