HERS
TO LOVE
An Alpha’s Claim - book 1
by Maia Dylan
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Ataahua Hemopo
needed to find the man who killed her Grandmother. Thanks to a waking dream,
she knew exactly where to find him. He’d stolen something precious from her
family, and she was determined to get it back. Killing him as revenge was just
an added bonus.
Taika Morgan was
not a man easily surprised, but he's stunned when a woman appears out of
nowhere on his property, only to press a gun to the back of his head. Not just
any woman—his mate. She disappeared into thin air, and he's determined to find
her, and prove that she's his.
When he finds
her, he sets out to prove they’re made for each other, but an evil from her
past threatens their new found happiness, and they have to fight just to
survive.
**erotic
romance, paranormal, M/F, shape-shifter
“Don’t move.”
Taika Morgan froze at the same instance his gorilla
growled a warning within him.
Too
fucking late, you dumb hairy bastard. Where the hell were you when a woman managed to sneak up on us on our own damn
lands!
His gorilla’s response to that was a grunt, and
Taika had no doubt the sound came with a lip curl that showed equal amounts of
disdain and contempt for his human side. Gritting his teeth at the surge of power
that flowed through him as his beast pushed forward, Taika lifted his hands in
the air.
“You’ve got some skill to be able to sneak up on me
on my lands, and without the rest of my group tearing you apart,” Taika said in
a low voice. “That’s grounds for punishment, and by that I mean a fucking beat down,
so you might wanna tell me what the hell you’re doing on my lands before I turn
and show you why sneaking up on a man like me was your worst mistake ever.”
“We’ll get to that,” the woman responded with no
fear in her voice at all. “First you have a decision to make, and because I
have about as much desire to be here as I do the possibility of a full body
cavity search the next time I fly through LAX, you had better make it quick.”
Despite his anger at being caught unawares, Taika
felt his lip quirk at the woman’s words. “Well, I have never been accused of
keeping a woman against her will, sweetness, so let’s hear it.”
The woman moved slightly, just enough that the air
around her shifted, and he inhaled her scent for the first time. Everything
within him stilled, his gorilla huffing low as everything became confusing and
clear at the exact same moment. As a silverback, he was the leader of his
group, and had fought for that right on more than one occasion. He was an
alpha, a shifter no body every fucked with. He was feared and revered. He never
knew he’d felt so untethered to the world until a bond snapped into place
within him, holding him steady. The emotion that came with it was so fierce it
almost dropped him to his knees, the realization that the woman standing behind
him was his. His mate. His.
The confusion that came with that powerful
recognition was the fact that the scent was difficult to catch, so weak he
might have thought he’d simply crossed paths with his mate, and not that she
was currently standing directly behind him. Click.
With a weapon apparently, and Taika had a feeling she wasn’t just pointing it
at the sky. A suspicion that was confirmed moments later when he felt the hard
metal of the barrel press against the back of his head.
“Oh, I’m sorry,” his mate said in a voice that said
she was anything but. “Did I interrupt you ignoring me? That is so rude of me. I
mean, here I am talking like you might actually be listening to me, and in the
middle of my badass rhetoric, you ignore the shit out of me, and I have to
press the barrel of my truly beautiful Glock 9mm to the back of your head to
make myself heard.”
Taika loved that his mate was a badass. Oh, he was
pissed as hell that she was standing there with a weapon in her hand, but not
because it was pointed at him. As long as she stayed close to him, he didn’t
give a shit if she pointed a goddamn grenade launcher in his direction. No, he
was angry because beneath the bravado and the sexy as hell sass flying from his
woman’s lips, there was a thread of uncertainty and, if he wasn’t mistaken,
fear, in her tone. He was fairly confident it had nothing to do with him
though, as surprising as that was. What that did to his gorilla wasn’t
surprising at all. He wanted to shift, take control, find whoever or whatever
it was that made her scared and rip. Them. To pieces.
“You have my complete attention, sweetness.” Taika
heard the anger in his voice, and from the way his woman stilled behind him,
she did, too. “You’re scared. Stop it. It’s fucking with my animal, and he’s a
monster. You ain’t ever seen anything like him. Just tell me who it is you
fear. Give me a name and I promise you, they will never fucking frighten you
again.” Or breathe.
“And what makes you think that it’s not you that I
fear?” His mate’s tone was more quizzical than anything else.
Taika held his breath as he raised his hands,
desperately trying to appear as non-threatening as possible. Not an easy task
for a guy who weighed over two-fifty, stood close to six foot six, and had the
ability to shift into an eight-hundred-pound silverback. “I’m gonna turn around
so we can have this conversation face to face. I’ll try not to scare you, and
you try not to blow the back of my head off by mistake.”
Her laughter was something someone could write
sonnets about, and had him closing his eyes briefly as pleasure rolled through
him. “Trust me. If I blow the back of your head off, it won’t be by mistake.”
©
MAIA DYLAN, EVERNIGHT PUBLISHING, 2018
ALL ABOUT MAIA DYLAN
Mother,
wife, author, and all around crazy…
I write the kind of books that I love to read. Love
stories between strong men and their independent soulmates. Usually, their path
to Happily Ever After is a bumpy one, but there is always a Happy Ever
After.
In the world's I create there is someone (or two, or
three) for everyone! Love comes in many
forms and I believe it is all beautiful and should be celebrated!
I live, love and write in New Zealand, married to my
husband of fifteen years with two beautiful children who I truly believe were
sent as a blessing, but sometimes to try my patience, and I wouldn't have it
any other way!
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