by T. S. Joyce
A girl.
He imagined a tiny baby with soft hair the color of dark whiskey, like Gia’s. With brown eyes that held bottomless understanding, like Gia’s. It would be months still until he met his daughter, but he couldn’t wait for the day he could see his mate holding the baby they’d made together, staring down at her with the same look she got at night when she looked at her rolling stomach with wonder.
A girl.
Creed held his breath and dove into the cold waves. Gia had come back to Saratoga bearing great gifts. Herself and a child, and though that was more than enough for a simple man like him, she’d devoted herself to giving him even more.
Creed sliced through the dark water with the graceful, powerful strokes Gia had been so determined to teach him over the past couple of weeks. He kicked up and broke the surface for a quick gasp of breath, then sank down and paddled his hands above him so he could take this moment in.
The falls pounded against the surf with such power, his skin vibrated with it. The water around him was infused with bubbles racing toward the surface again. Streams of sunlight cut through the water, creating an entirely different world down here. One where sound was dulled and the cold water stung his skin. One that was different from the terrible world his mother had created in the bathtub at 303 Janey Brook Road.
For a moment, he looked up and thought he saw his mother’s silhouette in the streaming sunlight above. A second of panic was settled by one thought.
A girl.
Gia was giving him a little girl.
Creed steeled himself and swam hard under the waterfall, then came up on the other side. The gentle side with the wet boulders to relax on and the slippery rock cliff that jutted straight up. The side he’d dreamed of swimming to since the day he’d first seen Bear Trap Falls.
She was waiting for him—his Gia.
Sitting on the edge of the rocks, her feet in the water, long, damp hair trailing down her shoulders, bare belly beautiful in her bathing suit, she smiled at him the moment he broke the surface.
He’d forbidden women in his territory, then broke his own rules, and something strange and unexpected had happened.
A woman had made him into a stronger man.
He swam to Gia and pushed up on the rock until he could look into those beautiful, tear-rimmed eyes of hers.
His past had been dark and fraught with uncertainty, but here, in this moment, none of that mattered. Gia had claimed his future.
She’d given him the other side of the waterfall.
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T.S. Joyce is devoted to bringing hot shifter romances to readers. Hungry alpha males are her calling card, and the wilder the men, the more she'll make them pour their hearts out. Experienced at handling an alpha male of her own, she lives in a tiny town, outside of a tiny city, and devotes her life to writing big stories. Foodie, bear whisperer, ninja, thief of tiny bottles of awesome smelling hotel shampoo, nap connoisseur, movie fanatic, and zombie slayer, and most of this bio is true.
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Contents
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Copyright
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
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Table of Contents
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Copyright
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
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