Tooth and Nail
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Last published Fri, Jul 21, 2023
"You are mine to touch, mine to take, mine to do with what I please," he growled lowly, his face so close to mine I felt his lips brush my ear.
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Elyria Parker had lived a life just shy of normal. Sure, she might have been a shifter, a holder of ancient magic that allowed her to assume the form of animals at will, but she fit in just fine with all the humans that live near her small community. They all did.
Her community had existed peacefully for centuries nestled in the foothills of a nearby mountain range, blending in seamlessly with the humans that had built a city close by.
Her peaceful, normal life was suddenly turned upside down with the arrival of an equally ancient group of shifters with a bloody past that locked them into being able to take just one form.
This group demanded that the traditions from centuries past be upheld, that they be allowed to come and take a prize that is theirs by design: to take a mate.
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