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It's finally release day today for Gregory's Rebellion - book six in my Shifters' Haven series with TEB so I'm celebrating by offering a free copy to a commenter on this post. Just leave a comment with your email address to enter and a winner will be chosen at random later in the week. Good luck!
The Blurb:
Leopard shifter Gregory is delighted to finally meet his mate, but why doesn’t the heavily scarred young jaguar shifter Hayden recognise their bond?
When supernatural council member Gregory is sent to Las Vegas to pick up a stray jaguar shifter, he thinks it will be an easy job. But upon his arrival, Gregory discovers that his quarry is his destined mate—a mate that doesn’t recognise their bond. Hayden has an angry looking scar running the length of his left cheek, but he won’t tell Gregory how he got it or why he hasn’t shifted into his cat form for the last two years. Something bad must have happened to him, but can Gregory convince his wary mate to confide in him?
To make matters worse, many council members’ mates have been murdered in recent months so Gregory is afraid to tell his employers that Hayden is his mate. Instead, he lies to the council—risking his job and his life—and takes Hayden to Texas where he’ll be able to protect him. But is Hayden as safe on the Crazy Horse ranch as he imagined?
Excerpt:
When the early morning sun made its first appearance on the horizon, Gregory grabbed a quick shower and change of clothes and doubled back to the street outside Hayden’s condo. Hiding behind a battered old Ford, he waited for the young jaguar to appear then watched him lock up and cross the street, heading in the direction of the diner.
The kid hunched forward as he walked, keeping his eyes to the ground. He looked as though he carried the weight of the world on his shoulders. Moving out of his hiding place, Gregory began to follow Hayden down the street. He felt for the kid…he really did. He wished there was something he could do to help him, but his hands were tied. He had to take Hayden in, because if the council sent in other operatives, Gregory would be in a shit load of trouble he didn’t need.
Every few steps Hayden tugged at the waistband of his jeans to pull them back up his narrow hips. They were at least a size too big for him and dragged along the ground as he walked. The grey T-shirt he sported was threadbare and so washed out it had probably started its life as black.
Gregory wasn’t an expert on fashion, but Hayden’s clothes didn’t look as though they’d been picked out to meet a current trend—they looked as though they were the only things he could find to fit him in a thrift store. Gregory couldn’t help but wonder what sort of life the young shifter had led. What had happened with his family? And how in God’s name had he ended up in this dump?
The report the council had given him to read on Hayden before he’d left for Vegas had been brief—the kid’s age, address, the name of the diner he worked at. The report had said that Hayden’s parents had kicked him out at sixteen, but it had held no information about the first three years he’d been on his own—nothing until he’d arrived in Vegas and started working at the diner. There was a picture of Hayden that had been captured from a distance, but the kid was barely distinguishable. In the photograph Hayden had his head to the ground, his shoulder-length hair and bangs covering his face.
Quickening his pace, Gregory all but caught up with the young cat shifter, walking no more than ten feet behind him. The closer he got, the harder his dick became. He cursed under his breath and kept on walking. What the hell did he find so appealing about the young jaguar? He was pretty, for sure—his body slim and lithe, just Gregory’s type—but Gregory had never experienced this level of attraction before. And he’d never had this much trouble controlling his damn libido.
“Hayden!”
The jaguar stopped walking and turned to face him, pinning him in place with a narrow-eyed glare. “Who are you? How do you know my name?”
When Gregory caught his first glimpse of Hayden up close, his breath caught in his chest and the words he had planned to use on Hayden, to get him to come quietly, stuck in his throat. Hayden’s icy blue gaze burned into his mind and imprinted on his soul. And his scent…
This couldn’t be happening. “I, uh…”
“What do you want from me?” Hayden asked, eyeing him warily.
Gregory took a step closer to the jaguar and pulled in a deep breath to confirm his suspicions. He couldn’t smell Hayden’s cat at all, which was odd, but his body reacted to the shifter just as he’d thought it would. His hands broke out in a sweat and what felt like tiny currents of electricity zapped him everywhere at once. His heart raced and his eyes and teeth threatened to shift to their cat form. He had to work hard to contain his cat, to force it inside himself. Gregory had never felt anything like it before and knew he wouldn’t again. The feelings, the sensations rolling around in his body, were unmistakable. He didn’t need to have experienced them before to know exactly what they were or what they meant.
Hayden was his mate.
“Uh, my name is Gregory Hale.” Gregory held out his hand for Hayden to shake. It trembled uncontrollably as it inched towards the young man.
Hayden’s eyes widened and he looked at Gregory’s hand as though it were something that could bite him. How the hell was Hayden so unaffected by their meeting? Gregory wanted to pounce on Hayden and rub himself all over the jaguar, to bathe him in his scent. But Hayden didn’t seem to recognise their bond at all. If he did, he wasn’t acknowledging it.
“How do you know who I am?” Hayden demanded.
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