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The Reluctant Cougar (Rise of the Alpha King's Heir)

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Reads 27,628
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Parts 56
Time 12h 56m

Mature

*Complete but still subject to edits* 

Ben Cougar and Eileen Grau have been best friends since they were kids.  For the young cougar-shifter, it was love at first sight. For the ostracized Vampire girl, it was good to have a friend--even if he was six years younger. 

Time changes all things, however, and when Eileen comes home from college Ben is no longer "little" in any sense of the word. He has a young man's body, a young man's desires, and he's done letting other men break his woman's heart.  

Ignorant people might call her a cougar, but if Ben has his way, soon everybody will be calling her Mrs. Cougar.  

Shapeshifter x vampire 
Older woman x younger man

*** A few notes: 

This story takes place in the late '90s/early 2000s. 

This is a prequel, and while it does lead into the next story it can be read as a HEA standalone.   

This is an instant-love, slow-burn story that will include dirty talk and some some tamer aspects of kink-play as the characters' relationship progresses. 

Also, because I want everybody to have a happily ever after, this story will occasionally take detours into the minds and relationships of the side characters.  

I hope you enjoy!
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White Lies

"You can't take all of us, sweetheart." Valen's voice is smooth, teasing, but the way his fingers brush against my hip isn't playful. It's testing. Behind me, Fennec chuckles, his breath warm as he leans in, his lips barely ghosting the shell of my ear. "She could try." His voice dips lower, dragging heat down my spine. "I'd love to watch her try." ------------------------------- Soraya Cordova was never meant to survive. Stolen as a child and discarded as a mistake, she was given a second chance when the Cordovas adopted her into a life of wealth, secrets, and silent wars. But when her parents are declared dead and the world turns against her found family, she realizes survival is no longer enough, she needs to fight. Raised as assassins, her adoptive brothers have spent years keeping her in the dark, but now? Now, she's in the center of the storm. Wanted by the government. Hunted by the man who created her. And trapped in a dangerous game of love, loyalty, and lies with the only people who have ever mattered. Because in their world, trust is a weapon. Not all love stories are gentle. Some are jagged at the edges, built on shadows and sins, tangled in pasts too dark to escape. White Lies is one of those stories. It's about the things we do to survive, the lies we tell to protect, and the love that thrives even in the darkest corners. Read at your own risk.