“I see you met Jane and Liam.” Sam plunked down a coffee cup in front of him and started pouring.
“Yeah. We met.”
Sam rolled her eyes and left to wait on the tables in the back.
Jane. His mate’s name was Jane, and she already had a kid. His grip on the mug tightened, and the cup almost shattered before he put it carefully back down onto the counter. The thought of her being with some other male infuriated him. Where was her mate? Where was her mating mark?
He threw down a handful of bills and stalked outside. He’d found the woman destined to be his. But he might be too late to do anything about it.
• • • • • • • • • •
“Sir, I think I found her,” James whispered into his cell phone watching the large man stalk out of the restaurant. “She’s still using the same first name, Jane, and you were right. She doubled back through this area with her son last month.” He texted the picture of the boy in his mother’s arms and winced at the low growl on the other side of his phone.
“That’s her.”
“Do you want me to kill her, kidnap her, what? Your father’s orders weren’t very specific.”
The roar erupted through the earpiece, and he pulled the cell away and rubbed at his ear. “You just keep an eye on her and report back to me. About her and her cub. Wait, has he shifted yet?”
“I don’t think so, she seems to keep him pretty tightly reined in, and I found receipts for medicine she’s been giving him for the past few years. With all due respect, sir, I think that’s why your trackers couldn’t find her. He’s just another human until he shifts.”
Another louder growl caused James to shudder in panic. This man scared him more than all the other bad people he had worked for these past ten years. “I’ll continue to watch them, sir.”
His employer spoke so low, he almost couldn’t hear him, and the hairs on his arms stood up. “Don’t lose them. Jane and the cub are mine, and she won’t run away from me again. I’m on my way to Bear Paw.”
The line went dead, and James shuddered as the fear passed through him. The men who had hired him were scary SOBs, and he had heard the stories about what happened to humans who pissed off the lion clan. Lions, real lions. Like the kind that could rip his head away from his shoulders with one swipe. Okay, he’d continue watching the woman. And when the alpha’s son got there, James would take his payment and get the hell out of dodge. No more jobs with shifters. These guys meant business.
He strode out to his car, started it up, and drove to the small apartment complex on Jessup Street. After parking, he positioned himself to do the same thing he had done for the past week. Watch the woman and her child.
• • Coming Soon • •
The second installment of The Mates of Bear Paw River.
Jane’s been running from her past and her abusive ex-boyfriend for years. Ever since she found out he was a shifter—a lion—she knew she wasn’t safe. But her sweet boy is his father’s son, and the medicine she gives him to control his urges to shift, isn’t working as well anymore. Every time her baby comes close to shifting it brings danger to their door.
Bear Paw River seems like the perfect place to hide. Away from the man that continues to hurt her, even in her dreams. Away from shifters. She just needs to lay low and keep Liam from going through his first shift. Their lives depend on it.
Bo Alexander loves Bear Paw, his land, and his family. As the alpha and protector of his beloved bear pack, he’ll stop at nothing to keep it safe. But when he meets his mate, a beautiful single mother on the run from lions, he knows he has to protect them too.
Jane fears shifters and might bolt again when she finds out who he really is.
Bo’s job just became more difficult. Protect his pack, protect his mate and her son. Protect his heart.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Renee, Jessica, Emily and Maren for all your help! And a huge bear hug to Renee B for everything she did to help me bring this book together. I appreciate all you do for me. Hugs and paws. <3
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