His Reluctant Omega

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ISBN 13 : 9781520477640
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (776 download)

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Book Synopsis His Reluctant Omega by : L. C. Davis

Download or read book His Reluctant Omega written by L. C. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitchell is an alpha among alphas in the brutal Mountain Ridge Pack. He rules with equal parts fear and respect, but his pack is growing restless after decades without an heir to his proverbial throne. Only an alpha and an omega pair can sire another alpha to lead the pack, but Mitchell's not-so-secret shame is the fact that he hasn't been able to impregnate any of his female omegas.Unlike the other weaker packs, the Mountain Ridge wolves have always kept their omegas in line and at a safe distance through the infamous yet efficient Breeding Program. On the recommendation of an old rival turned tentative friend, Mitchell decides to try his hand--among other things--in a last-ditch effort at siring an heir with a rare male omega. When a transfer request for one of the only male omegas in the pack uncovers unspeakable abuse and corruption within the Breeding Program, the very future of the pack is thrown into question. -Angel's heart has turned to stone after a lifetime of abuse at the hands of the alpha shifters who oversee the Breeding Program in his pack unit. The only love he has left belongs to the three other omegas he shares his little corner of hell with. Angel will do whatever it takes to protect them, even if it means becoming the mate of the top alpha himself.Angel knows better than to believe the gruff Mitchell when he claims that he's not like the others. Despite his best attempts to steel himself against the strange bond that forms between them, Angel discovers that Mitchell is the most dangerous alpha of all because he wants the one thing Angel has sworn never to give--his heart.With war looming on the horizon, a pack in chaos and two hardened hearts melted by an unlikely spark of love, only one outcome is certain. The Mountain Ridge Pack will never be the same.Disclaimer: See inside cover for content warnings. This is the second book in The Mountain Shifters series. Reading His Unclaimed Omega may provide context, but this book can be read as a standalone.

The Reluctant Alpha

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis The Reluctant Alpha by : Susi Hawke

Download or read book The Reluctant Alpha written by Susi Hawke and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As much as I felt bad for this Elisha person-God, my heart was breaking for the young man and all he'd been through-I was also angry. I'd left that pack in my rearview ten years ago for a good reason."Matthias Longclaw is happy living his life on the back of his beloved Harley with his five best friends and brothers-in-arms at his side. The West Coast Wolves are a rare pack of alphas, made up of unwanted orphans and second-born sons. The packs they were born to may not have wanted them, but they've built a solid family of their own. They help where they can, doing random acts of kindness and expecting nothing in return, just helping to build a world they want to live in.Then Matt gets a call from an old childhood buddy. He's being called back-begged to return-to reclaim his birthright and save a life in the process. The problem is... to do it, he will have to take a mate. And if he refuses? The omega will die. Torn between his duty to help others and his resentment of his old pack, Matt never expects for Elisha Whitetail to tilt his world and change everything. Can Matt and Elisha rebuild a broken pack while tending to a new love and a growing family while dealing with outside threats from neighboring packs? They're wolves. Strong, proud, and willing to do what it takes when their community needs them... whatever it takes.This is the first in a new mpreg series about finding joy in a hard world, building family, and discovering that life can surprise a person when they least expect it. Although this world has harsher themes than my previous books, it still has the same heart you'd expect. Plus a dose of my irreverent humor and all the naughty, knotty heat that comes with true mates. It wouldn't be a Susi Hawke book without it. Be sure to read the author's note at the beginning for possible trigger warnings.

His Taken Omega

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981224708
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (247 download)

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Book Synopsis His Taken Omega by : L. C. Davis

Download or read book His Taken Omega written by L. C. Davis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas wants nothing to do with omegas, and Avery has already signed a contract binding him to another Alpha. Fate has other plans for them both. As the omega spokesman for the infamous Futurus Initiative, Avery is a controversial figure who's used to being envied, occasionally despised and always the center of attention. His kidnapping at the hands of the twisted omega at the helm of the radical anti-Futurus group known as Epsilon shook his perfect world to the core, and his abnormally conventional parents no longer know what to do with him. In a last-ditch effort to save their son's reputation-and his engagement to a prestigious politician-Avery's desperate family sends him to the small, quaint pack of Southbend for some much-needed rest and recovery. When Avery arrives in Southbend, he finds the Meyer household anything but welcoming and he immediately clashes with the rakishly reluctant head of the household. Nicholas might be a brilliant lawyer with good looks and charm in abundance, but he makes no secret of the fact that Avery is persona non grata in his pack. How is Avery supposed to heal his own wounds when an Alpha who looks at every omega with disdain makes him question everything, including his participation in the breeding program he's devoted his life to promoting? ~ Nicholas has it all on the surface-rising-star status as an attorney with his own practice, a sizable inheritance and the option of going home with any omega he chooses at the end of the night-but beneath the mask of his status, he hides a secret that makes him feel unworthy of the title of Alpha. Past abuse has left him with a deep-seated revulsion towards omegas, the very class of shifter he's supposed to crave. He uses work and meaningless flings with other Alphas and betas to distract himself from the family life he doesn't believe he deserves, but in the wake of his estranged father's death, Nicholas is called home to take on a role he never wanted. Forced to give up his high-profile career and take the reins of his family's pack, Nicholas finds himself wholly unprepared to fill the shoes of the man he hated. Because fate isn't cruel enough, the Spirits choose this moment to send him his destined mate-a charming yet infuriatingly stubborn omega he can never love or even claim. At least, that's what he thinks until he realizes that the very traits that repel him from other omegas draw him to Avery in a way he finds as bewildering as it is intoxicating.

The Omega Project

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765336324
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Book Synopsis The Omega Project by : Steve Alten

Download or read book The Omega Project written by Steve Alten and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joining a scientific team originally scheduled to travel to one of Jupiter's moons, tech genius Robert Eisenbraun is put into hibernation against his will and awakens on a hostile Earth where he must defeat a technological adversary of his own making.

Dead Heat

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Publisher : Ace
ISBN 13 : 0425256286
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Book Synopsis Dead Heat by : Patricia Briggs

Download or read book Dead Heat written by Patricia Briggs and published by Ace. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Mercy Thompson series transports readers into the realm of werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham... Charles and Anna soon discover that a dangerous fae being is on the loose, replacing human children with simulacrums. The fae have started a cold war with humanity that's about to heat up and Charles and Anna are in the crossfire"--

Alpha and Omega

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Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0399181504
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)

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Book Synopsis Alpha and Omega by : Harry Turtledove

Download or read book Alpha and Omega written by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove reveals a new side of his potent imagination in a gripping speculative novel about the End of Days—and a discovery in the Middle East that turns the world upside down. What would happen if the ancient prophecy of the End of Days came true? It is certainly the last thing Eric Katz, a secular archaeologist from Los Angeles, expects during what should be a routine dig in Jerusalem. But perhaps higher forces have something else in mind when a sign presaging the rising of the Third Temple is located in America, a dirty bomb is detonated in downtown Tel Aviv, and events conspire to place a team of archaeologists in the tunnels deep under the Temple Mount. There, Eric is witness to a discovery of such monumental proportions that nothing will ever be the same again. Harry Turtledove is the master at portraying ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events, and what is more extraordinary than the incontrovertible proof that there truly is a higher force controlling human destiny? But as to what that force desires . . . well, that is the question.

Omega Rising

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Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0385386648
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Book Synopsis Omega Rising by : Patrick Carman

Download or read book Omega Rising written by Patrick Carman and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Voyagers land on a planet made entirely of water where they must find the third element of the Source that will save the Earth."--

Lola and the Millionaires: Part Two

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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Lola and the Millionaires: Part Two by : Kathryn Moon

Download or read book Lola and the Millionaires: Part Two written by Kathryn Moon and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lola is being hunted by her past, stalked with every step she takes. Sheltered with the pack of her dreams, at first it seems like the hardest challenge isn't even staying safe from Indy. Tensions at work are at a tipping point and after taking the role of management's spy, Lola's in the crossfire if anything goes wrong.As romances between Lola and the pack members are developing left and right, the woman who swore she wanted nothing to do with alpha is turning to them like a bloom to the sun. If only it weren't just one monstrous alpha that twisted her own thoughts. Lola is quickly realizing that her worst enemy is herself, and it's like walking the tightrope to find a balance with the pack that gives her strength rather than sends her toppling to the ground.But Indy won't be ignored. One way or another, he's determined to get his hands on her again. Lola needs more than a pack to shield her. She needs to be ready to fight.

Omega

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Publisher : NLA Digital LLC
ISBN 13 : 1941098398
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Omega by : Jasinda Wilder

Download or read book Omega written by Jasinda Wilder and published by NLA Digital LLC. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This isn't a fairy tale. Not everyone will get a happily ever after. Sometimes we can't just walk away from the past. Love doesn't always save the day. The beast won't always get his beauty. But maybe, just maybe, we can get our happy ending.

Omega

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Publisher : Marvel Comics Group
ISBN 13 : 9780785119432
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)

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Book Synopsis Omega by : Jonathan Lethem

Download or read book Omega written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Marvel Comics Group. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the first ten volumes of the "Omega: The Unknown" comic, which features the adventures of an alien superhero and an orphaned teenage boy who shares his destiny.

Unknown Omega

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Publisher : V.T. Bonds
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unknown Omega written by V.T. Bonds and published by V.T. Bonds. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You have every right to hate me, little one. I’m an a*hole. But I’m your a*hole now.” -Seeck Orphaned in a desert village, I'm little more than a slave, but when my scent changes and the Chieftain assaults me, I fight back. Terrified and bleeding, I run through the streets, praying for death. I meet Seeck instead, a ruthless, heartless soldier willing to crush anyone who gets in his way. Except, he isn't just any soldier. He's an Alpha Elite–a top secret Special Operations unit of super soldiers–and according to him, I'm in his way. He leaves me broken and humiliated in an alley, but his teammates find me and care for me. They know something he refuses to admit. I'm his omega lifemate, and now that he's had a taste of me, he'll never be able to walk away. Which means I'm in more danger than ever before. His enemies have found us, and they know his one weakness. Me. Unknown Omega (Alpha Elite Series Book 1) is a full-length, sizzlin’ hot, dark paranormal romance set in a dystopian world. Intended for +18 readers. Tropes/themes include: *Mf pairing (male/female) *Rejected Mate *Forced Proximity *A morally grey, OTT jealous/possessive male hero *Nonshifter Omegaverse (nesting, knotting, marking) *Inexperienced but strong female main character *Instalust/Haters-to-Lovers *HEA (Happily Ever After) *Graphic Violence *No cheating

The Children of Men

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Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307367711
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis The Children of Men by : P. D. James

Download or read book The Children of Men written by P. D. James and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman leads him into contact with a group of dissenters. Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

Omega Replaced

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Publisher : TC Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Omega Replaced by : Tanya Chris

Download or read book Omega Replaced written by Tanya Chris and published by TC Publishing. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alpha Donovan is certain about one thing. His work recovering missing omegas who’ve been separated from their protectors is a service—to the alphas who hire him and to the omegas themselves. What he’s less confident about is his unconventional desire to be dominated by someone as strong as he is. No alpha is supposed to want that. When Donovan arrives in North Leland, he expects it to be just another job. Find the omega, bring her home. Then he meets Judge Tarek, the gorgeous alpha determined to thwart his mission. Tarek disapproves of his job, but not his fantasies, which he’s ready and oh-so-able to fulfill. Everything is backwards in this strange town. Wanting another alpha’s teeth in your neck is okay, but returning an omega to their rightful place isn’t? Donovan has a lot to learn, and if he can’t change his way of thinking fast enough, he’s going to lose what he’s never allowed himself to believe he could have. Omega Replaced is an alpha/alpha novella with BDSM components in the Omega Reimagined series. It can be read as part of the series or as a standalone. This is a non-MPREG omegaverse.

Wicked Lies Boys Tell

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Publisher : K Webster
ISBN 13 : 1687710503
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book Wicked Lies Boys Tell written by K Webster and published by K Webster. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today Bestselling author K Webster comes an angst-filled, friends-to-enemies-to-lovers MM romance! I’m in love with my best friend. Lie. I’m in love with my enemy. Truth. But they’re the same. They. Are. The. Same. Lines in my world are blurry between fantasy and reality. Truth and lies. Love and hate. Copeland Justice is my enemy. My once best friend. The sadist in my heart plucking and pulling at every thread of who I am until I’m unraveled at his feet. His mouth says he hates me. His eyes burn with animosity for me. His heart beats for someone else. But Copeland Justice is the best liar of us all.

Bound to Two Bears

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Publisher : Twisted E-Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1310824061
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Bound to Two Bears by : Kelex

Download or read book Bound to Two Bears written by Kelex and published by Twisted E-Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly dumped Carson Davies decides the vacation he’d planned to take his girlfriend on—in hopes of fixing their troubled relationship—is the perfect getaway he needs to clear his head. A few days of solitude, hiking along picturesque Bear Mountain is just what he thinks he needs to move on. But as soon as he arrives, he’s shocked by the sensual reaction he has to the two owners. The two male owners. Carson has never been attracted to a man, and he fights the sensation tooth and nail. Royce and Jared know their mate as soon as he walks in the door of the main lodge. They’re ready to claim what’s theirs, but know they need to be careful. The man sees himself as straight, but that’s the least of their problems. They’ll need to show him their true nature, their inner bear, and hope it doesn’t send the man packing. The shifters have just three days before the human is scheduled to go home. In a short span, they’ve got to show Carson how bound they all are and hope they can seduce the man into surrendering.

The Omega Portal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book The Omega Portal written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fascinating read, The Omega Portal, two friends get together over a weekend to record conversations about one of them having a life changing near death experience, that opened up ongoing seeings and understandings about Greater Reality, the nature of Consciousness itself, and how to connect more deeply with our True Essence, even during challenging times. Excerpted From the Introduction: So the short version is, you had a serious medical situation in the last year that led to your heart stopping, and during that time you had a very impactful near death experience, to say the least, in which you found yourself in a Light-filled Space, deeply connecting with a Multidimensional Being, which you now call the Omega Being or the Omega Consciousness, or just Omega. And you not only had some amazing experiences and had a lot of really intriguing information come in, but through that a communication portal somehow opened, so that you now regularly have communication sessions, you call them bridging sessions, with this Being, during which you receive what to me are also really fascinating information downloads, about a variety of topics, including a map or model of how Multidimensional Reality is basically set up. And today and tomorrow, we're having what we're calling a marathon weekend, where we're going to go into a lot of this in a lot more depth, and then I'm planning to transcribe it and turn it into a book. And this might be a good place to mention, since it will be an anonymous book, just to have some bare minimal orientation of who's talking, we're both American or Canadian males, between the ages of 30 and 65. How's that for vague? There goes our anonymity. Sorry, how inconsiderate of me. Next up, we agreed on an outline of four main topics. So today we'll be talking about your near death experience, and this portal or bridge that opened for you during it, then we'll move into the second main topic, which is your ongoing bridging sessions, where you relax in a chair and plug back in to that connection, and information comes in about more subtle levels of reality, about consciousness, and about a variety of other topics, and I've found some of those really interesting and impactful, so I'm looking forward to drilling deeper into them. And then we'll divide tomorrow between two other general topics. The afternoon will focus on how during your near death experience one of the things that happened was you were flooded with scenes and information about a possible future. One potential way the future could look. Then tomorrow evening's topic, a few times you've talked about some practices or processes that the Omega Consciousness has given you during your bridging sessions, and, well first, some of the background you laid out for one of those in particular, the one you call Influencing Your Unfolding, was really interesting to me, and got into some territory we hadn't talked about before around the connection between consciousness and reality, and some other things, so I wanted us to get into that. And second, it seemed good to designate some time for you to go into some of those practices in case any readers find them helpful. So I'm sure we'll stray into other territory at times, and I've got my list of questions at the ready, about things we've talked about that to me were especially intriguing or fascinating, as well as some things I haven't asked you yet, but that's the basic layout I suggested for the weekend and you said sure. Yeah, we'll see what actually happens, best laid plans, but that feels like a good basic outline. Alright, then let's go ahead and dive in. First up, your near death experience.

Mating the Omega

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Publisher : Ada Stuart
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mating the Omega written by Ada Stuart and published by Ada Stuart. This book was released on 2020-12-13 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mated to three large alpha shifters? No way, Leah decides. She might be an omega, but who says she needs to follow every dust-covered tradition? She would rather work on her studies than count male abs. Particularly when those abs belong to three of her uncle’s most intimidating enforcers. Unfortunately, her uncle is also the Alpha, the pack leader. And he has too many unmated males to deal with. Still, Leah refuses to solve the Alpha’s ‘problem’. Particularly not when she learns that her fated mate is her childhood tormentor - and he wants to mate her with two of his friends.. —————————- “Mating the Omega” is a steamy hot Dubcon Reverse Harem Erotic Wolf Shifter Romance. Full length, explicit sex scenes, standalone, no cheating or cliffhangers - and Happily Ever After. Reader advisory: This story contains elements of non-consensual sex, strong language, suicide thoughts and very explicit sex scenes. Themes: Reverse Harem, Enemies to lovers, Happily ever after, Opposites attract, Alpha male, Unrequited love, Matchmaker, Accidental pregnancy, Arranged marriage, Love triangle, Menage, Protector, Return to hometown, Wolf shifter, Pack life, Omega, Alpha NOTE: The cover has been changed, but the content remains the same. ————— Excerpt: The next morning, Leah tried to stick to her usual routines and ignore what had happened yesterday. It wasn’t a great success. Her mind seemed to be constantly churning on how she could avoid her fate. But so far, no good ideas had come forward. She needed to calm down. That would help her mind work more efficiently. But even a long, warm shower had failed to calm her nerves. She dried her hair and got dressed. Taking some comfort in doing what she always did in the morning. There had to be a way out of this mess. Some miracle that would restore her life to normal and wake her up from this nightmare. As she left the bathroom, Leah heard her mother call from the story below her. "Leah?" "Yes?" "There's someone here to see you." "Who?" "Come down and see for yourself, dear." Leah had a strong suspicion who it might be. Taren. Otherwise, her mother would have said so. She had briefly told her mother what her uncle had ordered her to do. Her mother had seemed relieved, but she hadn’t nagged about it. Instead, she had kept her questions to a minimum, as if she sensed Leah was too shocked to want to talk about it. In fact, she didn’t even want to think or talk about the mating. She wanted to forget the whole thing. But the people around her wouldn’t forget. Particularly not if her so-called mate would become a frequent visitor to her house. Leah heard muttered voices coming from the living room as she moved closer. Fearing the meeting, yet it was better to know. She stood in the doorway and looked inside. At the same time, they stopped talking and turned their attention to her. Even if she had moved silently, it felt like she had barged in. Leah stiffened when she saw Taren wasn’t the only visitor. Three large men towered over her mother. Each of them so large and broad, their living room suddenly felt tiny. Their faces turned to her. Leah felt their eyes scan her entire body from top to toe. As if they were weighing her, judging her. ——————