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GRIFFIN-
My original escape plan had hinged on tricking a guard, and I had picked River on first sight. Until I realized who he was to me.
I never wanted a mate, never wanted to have to rely on another that way, but I've found that I haven't been given much of a choice. On my own, bouncing from one group of evil men to another since the moment I was able to leave the wretched woman who raised me- a curse on her name- I never expected to find my mate while imprisoned for the only crime I didn't commit, in a land not my own, and with my bear bound and gagged.
I never expected to find my mate in fierce, flirtatious, gorgeous River. Kind and gracious with a sweet heart and a habit of wearing pretty things that had my bear sitting up and taking notice, River was made for me, and I for him.
He was also the man whose sole responsibility it was to guard my cell and keep me from escaping.
RIVER-
I've fallen in love too many times, and had my heart broken just as often. But this time, with Griffin, the man who swears he's innocent of trying to harm the Emperor, but guilty of every other crime I can think of, I feel... safe. Safe and loved and cared for. Since learning of wild mages and their mates, I've had a desire to have that kind of love. That devotion and pure need that I've seen in the eyes of the men around me.
I thought I was safe with him, as his mate, but his betrayal...
I'm not sure I'll survive this heartbreak. I'm not sure I'll be able to move past the soul-tearing, heart-rending realization that nothing is as I thought it was. That maybe, as much as I love him, Griffin never saw me as more than the man who held the keys to his cage.
***** The Light Beyond Constellations is a M/M bear shifter fantasy romance and is the fourth and last in the Wild Magic Series, though the Strange Magics Series is linked. Each book can be read as a standalone, but they're best read in order, if only to keep from spoilers :) *****
"You're bruised," the boy came up to him slowly. His calculated demeanor melted as he walked and for once, Jett saw the eighteen-year-old behind the princely mask he always hid behind.
"It'll heal," he assured him. "You look a bit beat yourself."
"I took it too far," he gently held his arm where the bruise was. Every touch left a tingling sensation. "I'm sorry. My father. He..." he trailed off. The brown eyes that Jett had quickly fallen for wandered off into the distance. Jett wished he could read them better.
"What's the matter with your father?"
"I don't want to talk about that," he shook his head.
"Then what do you want to talk about?"
"Us," those dark eyes met with his again, showing Jett something he hadn't seen before in him.
"What about us?" Jett grinned.
The boy caught him by surprise. He kissed him with a passion that Jett hadn't known he had.
Oh Shiro, the next in line to the Reverence Pack.
What was he going to do with him?
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BlackCreek was a beautiful city well-known for it's foggy weather, amazing scenery, and the werewolves that guard it.
Four packs surround the city, but none compare to the mysterious Reverence Pack and their secretive ways. The only thing that sparks Jett's interest in them now is a new coming-of-age Alpha. The princely young man was as quiet as the forest that surrounded them. And he finds himself pulled to the man in a way he can't describe.
Shiro's spent years preparing to take leadership of his pack. He trained both his body and mind to their greatest potential.
He prepared for it all.
Except for his mate being the Alpha of the Valor pack.
Shiro was a master at keeping his secrets hidden to the world. But there was only so much time before the Alpha found out; before the news would spread.
Only so much time before the curse took its toll on them.
With so much against them, and secrets that most took to their grave, can a love between two Alphas be strong enough to last all the hate that's sure to follow?
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