HERS TO LOVE – An Alpha’s Claim, 1
Series: An
Alpha’s Claim
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BLURB:
Ataahua
Hemopo needed to find the man who killed her Grandmother. Thanks to a waking
dream, she knew exactly where to find him. He’d stolen something precious from
her family, and she was determined to get it back. Killing him as revenge was
just an added bonus.
Taika
Morgan was not a man easily surprised, but he's stunned when a woman appears
out of nowhere on his property, only to press a gun to the back of his head.
Not just any woman—his mate. She disappeared into thin air, and he's determined
to find her, and prove that she's his.
When
he finds her, he sets out to prove they’re made for each other, but an evil
from her past threatens their new found happiness, and they have to fight just
to survive.
**erotic romance, paranormal, shape-shifter
STORY
EXCERPT:
“Don’t
move.”
Taika Morgan
froze at the same instance his gorilla growled a warning within him.
Too fucking late, you dumb hairy
bastard. Where the hell were you when a woman managed to sneak
up on us on our own damn lands!
His
gorilla’s response to that was a grunt, and Taika had no doubt the sound came
with a lip curl that showed equal amounts of disdain and contempt for his human
side. Gritting his teeth at the surge of power that flowed through him as his
beast pushed forward, Taika lifted his hands in the air.
“You’ve got
some skill to be able to sneak up on me on my lands, and without the rest of my
group tearing you apart,” Taika said in a low voice. “That’s grounds for punishment,
and by that I mean a fucking beat down, so you might wanna tell me what the
hell you’re doing on my lands before I turn and show you why sneaking up on a
man like me was your worst mistake ever.”
“We’ll get
to that,” the woman responded with no fear in her voice at all. “First you have
a decision to make, and because I have about as much desire to be here as I do
the possibility of a full body cavity search the next time I fly through LAX,
you had better make it quick.”
Despite his
anger at being caught unawares, Taika felt his lip quirk at the woman’s words.
“Well, I have never been accused of keeping a woman against her will,
sweetness, so let’s hear it.”
The woman
moved slightly, just enough that the air around her shifted, and he inhaled her
scent for the first time. Everything within him stilled, his gorilla huffing
low as everything became confusing and clear at the exact same moment. As a silverback,
he was the leader of his group, and had fought for that right on more than one
occasion. He was an alpha, a shifter no body every fucked with. He was feared
and revered. He never knew he’d felt so untethered to the world until a bond
snapped into place within him, holding him steady. The emotion that came with
it was so fierce it almost dropped him to his knees, the realization that the
woman standing behind him was his. His mate. His.
The
confusion that came with that powerful recognition was the fact that the scent
was difficult to catch, so weak he might have thought he’d simply crossed paths
with his mate, and not that she was currently standing directly behind him. Click. With a weapon apparently, and
Taika had a feeling she wasn’t just pointing it at the sky. A suspicion that
was confirmed moments later when he felt the hard metal of the barrel press
against the back of his head.
“Oh, I’m
sorry,” his mate said in a voice that said she was anything but. “Did I
interrupt you ignoring me? That is so rude of me. I mean, here I am talking
like you might actually be listening to me, and in the middle of my badass
rhetoric, you ignore the shit out of me, and I have to press the barrel of my
truly beautiful Glock 9mm to the back of your head to make myself heard.”
Taika loved
that his mate was a badass. Oh, he was pissed as hell that she was standing
there with a weapon in her hand, but not because it was pointed at him. As long
as she stayed close to him, he didn’t give a shit if she pointed a goddamn
grenade launcher in his direction. No, he was angry because beneath the bravado
and the sexy as hell sass flying from his woman’s lips, there was a thread of
uncertainty and, if he wasn’t mistaken, fear, in her tone. He was fairly
confident it had nothing to do with him though, as surprising as that was. What
that did to his gorilla wasn’t surprising at all. He wanted to shift, take
control, find whoever or whatever it was that made her scared and rip. Them. To
pieces.
“You have my
complete attention, sweetness.” Taika heard the anger in his voice, and from
the way his woman stilled behind him, she did, too. “You’re scared. Stop it. It’s
fucking with my animal, and he’s a monster. You ain’t ever seen anything like
him. Just tell me who it is you fear. Give me a name and I promise you, they
will never fucking frighten you again.” Or
breathe.
“And what
makes you think that it’s not you that I fear?” His mate’s tone was more
quizzical than anything else.
Taika held
his breath as he raised his hands, desperately trying to appear as
non-threatening as possible. Not an easy task for a guy who weighed over
two-fifty, stood close to six foot six, and had the ability to shift into an
eight-hundred-pound silverback. “I’m gonna turn around so we can have this
conversation face to face. I’ll try not to scare you, and you try not to blow
the back of my head off by mistake.”
Her laughter
was something someone could write sonnets about, and had him closing his eyes
briefly as pleasure rolled through him. “Trust me. If I blow the back of your
head off, it won’t be by mistake.”
© MAIA DYLAN, EVERNIGHT PUBLISHING,
2018
ALL ABOUT
MAIA DYLAN
Mother, wife, author, and all around
crazy…
I write the
kind of books that I love to read. Love stories between strong men and their
independent soulmates. Usually, their path to Happily Ever After is a bumpy
one, but there is always a Happy Ever After.
In the
world's I create there is someone (or two, or three) for everyone! Love comes in many forms and I believe it is
all beautiful and should be celebrated!
I live, love
and write in New Zealand, married to my husband of fifteen years with two
beautiful children who I truly believe were sent as a blessing, but sometimes
to try my patience, and I wouldn't have it any other way!
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