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Hollywood comes to Goldclaw when two stars marry at the ranch. Renata refuses the opportunity to work for the star of the latest superhero movie, Astrid.
After Renata nearly loses her life in a disastrous fire, she changes her mind about the job and flies to L.A., but after she leaves, fire chief Odell discovers she is in danger, and sends his breed partner Chris after her. By the time Odell follows them, both are in danger from an unknown source. While they burn up the sheets, they hunt down the people who burned down her store and are now threatening her life.
In Hollywood, nothing is as it seems.
AVAILABLE: Friday, March 27th
This title is offered at a 10% discount. Offer ends midnight CST, April 3rd
Surrendering to Her Mates (The Tigers of Texas )
By: Em Ashcroft
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Goldclaw police captain Chris and fire chief Odell have wanted boutique owner Renata for a long time, but Renata has always said no. As a tiger shifter, she wants to establish herself first, before she lets the rampant alpha males begin the mating dance.Hollywood comes to Goldclaw when two stars marry at the ranch. Renata refuses the opportunity to work for the star of the latest superhero movie, Astrid.
After Renata nearly loses her life in a disastrous fire, she changes her mind about the job and flies to L.A., but after she leaves, fire chief Odell discovers she is in danger, and sends his breed partner Chris after her. By the time Odell follows them, both are in danger from an unknown source. While they burn up the sheets, they hunt down the people who burned down her store and are now threatening her life.
In Hollywood, nothing is as it seems.
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Excerpt
STORY EXCERPT
Renata Goldclaw smoothed a wrinkle from
the beautiful teal dress on the mannequin. It was a Dior, fresh off the
runway. She wouldn’t have it in stock for long, despite its breathtaking
price. The sheath flowed down the model’s body, enhancing the slight
curves. It wouldn’t suit Renata at all, although she loved it. She was
too short and too rounded to do it justice.
When the gentle chime sounded from the
door, she took a moment to touch the matching leather bag displayed
above the dress, more to draw attention to it than because it needed
adjusting. She might as well have saved her efforts, because when she
turned around Odell Goldclaw stood there. Odell didn’t notice clothes
much, only what was inside them.
In jeans and T-shirt, Odell was as
gorgeous as he was in his fire chief’s uniform. From the top of his
head, covered with thick, wavy chestnut hair to the tips of his worn
cowboy boots, and every part of his powerful body in between, he was a
sight for sore eyes. He grinned, the corners of his impossibly blue eyes
crinkling at the corners. “Morning.”
“Hi.” She put on her best store owner
face, smooth and gently smiling. She’d have a little fun. “May I help
you? Do you prefer Dior or Chanel, or perhaps something a little
more—adventurous?”
“Damned if I know to the first part and hell yes to the second.”
She’d asked for that one, and he made her laugh. “You shouldn’t.”
He walked across the polished beech wood
floor, his sneakers squeaking on the wood. “I’d love to kiss you good
morning. Perhaps one day I will.”
She propped her hands on her hips, the
fine cotton of her dress smooth under her hands. “One day, maybe not.
Odell, you know this isn’t right.” He’d been interested since she’d
arrived in Goldclaw five years ago, and seriously chasing her for
months. But these men were so sure of themselves, and so dominating that
she wanted to set up her own power base before she considered dating
any of them.
“I know no such thing.”
“But your breed partner is dating the
doctor at the hospital. She could be your breedmate, and shape-shifters
can only have one of those.” It wouldn’t be fair to Trinity to muscle in
on a promising relationship now.
Odell grimaced. “Trinity’s cool, but I
can’t see her being a breedmate. Not ours, at any rate. I don’t get that
tingle when she comes close. Not like I do when you’re near, darlin’.”
The man was almost irresistible. Almost.
She hung on to that qualification by a thread, but when she tried to
step back, he brushed his hand over her waist, grazing the skin of her
wrist when he withdrew. As if he’d restrained her, she halted, gazing up
at his face. He must be a good eight inches taller than her five and a
half feet. “Odell, I’m working.”
“I know. I won’t do anything—inappropriate. Not right now. You look beautiful, by the way.”
“I’m working,” she repeated. “If I didn’t look good, I wouldn’t be a very effective ad for the place, would I?”
“You’d look gorgeous in dungarees.” His
gaze heated, and he swept a comprehensive glance over her. “In fact, I
can’t wait to see you in them. And nothing else.”
“I’m not a dungarees kind of girl.”
“What if it had a fancy designer label on it?”
She pretended to consider. “Weeel…” She touched a finger to her lips.
He groaned. “For the love of God, don’t do that. Are you working late tonight?”
“No.” She’d planned to close the store at
six, and prepare for her Thursday late night. She’d have a busy time,
now her boutique’s reputation was spreading. People came for miles to
see what new items she had in store. Parcels arrived from designer
houses all the time, and after the big collections, they increased. She
loved that part of her work, unpacking the clothes and accessories,
seeing for real what she’d often only seen online. There wasn’t much
about her job that she didn’t like.
“Come to dinner. I’m off duty until tomorrow at two. I’ve got all this time to kill. Help me kill it?”
“I can’t.”
“Why not?” Closing the distance between
them, he kissed her. Softly and sweetly, but an undercurrent of passion
stirred her body into life, made her pussy wet and soft, readying itself
to receive his cock. He smelled of an elusive citrus cologne, and pure
man. Heat washed over her, and a harder touch as their skin came into
contact. When he drew away, a stray prick of stubble nudged her chin.
Renata opened her eyes and gazed up at
him. She sighed. “Because of that. I’ve been waiting to see the mating
band on your wrist.” The band was hard shell, like a bracelet, that
encircled the wrists of a mated trio. She’d put her life on hiatus,
waiting to see them on the wrists of Chris, Odell and Trinity. Then she
could move on, and keep her secret locked inside her. The one that
wanted Odell so badly.
When she would have moved away, he gripped
her hands. “Listen. I want you, Renata, and I have ever since you came
to Goldclaw. I let you be because you were setting up your business. Now
you have, now you’re expanding, I want us to see what we have. You
don’t have to be breedmates to find happiness. Look at Mia, Jag and
Dion. They’re married, but not breedmates. They’re happier than it’s
possible to be.”
Mia and her two breedmates lived on one of
the smaller ranches close to town. Which wasn’t saying much,
considering one of the largest ranches in Texas lay on their doorstep,
so “smaller” was relative.
That reminded her of her plans for the
day. “I have to go out to the concession. Some VIP’s for that wedding at
the weekend are coming in this afternoon and I promised Sam I’d give
her a hand.” Her assistant and friend, Samantha, was another lucky
breedmate, to one of the breed partner pairs in the syndicate that owned
the ranch.
The corner of his mouth quirked in a
smile. “Then you’ll be hungry when you’ve done. Shall I pick you up
there, or do you want to drive back to town?”
She huffed a reluctant laugh. “You’re impossible.”
ADULT EXCERPT
“Bed,” he said. “I want you on your back,
on your front, in every position. I want to hold you and touch you, and
taste you. Shit, Renata, you are so gorgeous, I’m close to coming right
now.”
So was she, and she was so tired that was close to a miracle.
He would have lifted her except she was
ahead of him, getting off the sofa and heading for that huge white bed
in the master bedroom. If she stopped to think about this, she’d back
out.
By the time he’d got through the door,
she’d left the robe behind and lay, totally naked, on the cover, her
legs slightly apart in a deliberate tease.
He nearly tripped over his jeans when he
took them off, kicking his trainers and underwear off in the same
movement. Then he walked to the bed.
The sight amazed her. Excited her, too as
the bead of pre cum on his huge cock glistened in the soft bedside
lights. But he wouldn’t let her claim it.
Instead, he leaned over her, gathering her
wrists in one big hand and pinning them over her head. He straddled
her, stopping her lifting her legs. So she opened them wider, giving him
a better view.
“You heard me, then,” he said, and bent his head to kiss her.
After one luscious kiss, he released her hands and moved down her body. “I’ve been waiting to do this for so long.”
He licked her pussy, one long sweep of his
tongue gathering all her juices, then looked up into her eyes as he
swallowed. “I knew you’d taste good. I just didn’t know how good.”
Her lips formed a word, but her voice didn’t come. She tried again. “Fuck.”
He looked so fucking good. He was tanned
all over, and from here she could see pretty much all of him. As if he
heard her, he waggled his fine ass. It was round and begging her to grab
it and pull him inside her. Not for the first time she thanked all the
gods that being shape-shifters, they didn’t need to use condoms. She’d
feel him inside her with nothing between them, very soon now.
Now! her mind screamed, so loud he
picked it up. She felt her thought go out of her, ready for him to read.
“Not yet,” he murmured. “I haven’t tasted nearly enough of you. I want
to know you. It’s taken me so long to get this far, I’m not rushing
anything.” He released her wrists. “Don’t move your hands. You’ll get
your turn.”
He pushed her thighs apart with his shoulders and draped her thighs over his arms.
He’d wined and dined her in the best way
possible. She was so not in the mood for a dinner at the French
restaurant in town, good though it was, making small talk. No, no, no.
He took another taste, this time pushing
his tongue into her, his mouth over her cunt. Then he sucked, and she
went through the roof.
Nobody had done that before, licked her deep inside and stimulated her clit with his upper lip. “Ah, fuck!”
He carried on sucking, making his
movements slow and rhythmic. His slurping became the only thing she
could hear, his touch all that mattered.
Holding her firmly, he sucked, thrust and
worked her to screaming point. Steadily, so she marked every step in her
journey to orgasm, he took her.
Then he let down his fangs. Teeth gleamed
white, then a slow graze slid down each side of her clit. He was so
careful, so delicate, that the razor-sharp weapons only nudged her,
without so much as nicking her. This was all pleasure.
A sharp clench inside her informed her that her climax was on its way, inevitable, no going back.
Then air hit her pussy as he swung up. His
fangs slid back into his mouth, but his eyes held the look of a wild,
beautiful predator. He crawled up the bed, his cock hanging between his
legs, hard and long, his balls heavy behind it.
Renata licked her lips, cupped her breasts and presented them to him.
He swiped his tongue across first one and
then the other. Renata shivered, but she wanted him. He’d kept her on
the edge for so, so long that she couldn’t stand it anymore.
She reached for him, but he grabbed her
hands and stretched them over her head again. “Naughty, naughty.” He
tapped the side of her butt, then flicked a finger across her clit. She
cried out and arched up to him, but before her ripple of orgasm was
over, he had plunged his cock inside her.
Speed and grace were the hallmarks of the
tiger, and he was feral now, human in form, tiger in nature, taking his
woman, surrounding her with him and showing her no mercy.
He pounded into her, thrusting past her
orgasm and throwing her into another, harder, more insistent one. He
made her mindless with passion, and all she could do was buck under him
and take everything he gave her. He crooned words to her. “Fuck, you’re
good,” and a moment later, “I need you, Renata,” and finally, “You can
touch me now.”
With a cry of surrender, she brought her
hands down and clutched his back, hanging on for dear life as he thrust
inside her, his cock forging a path deep within. He moved, and when he
swiveled his hips, he pressed against her, around and around until tears
came to her eyes and she sobbed his name. “Don’t stop, please don’t
stop!”
I don’t think I can.
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