Detective Lion Shifter (A Paranormal Night Club Book 3)
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Lana watched Nick playing pool with Brady, Lucian, and a couple of his other friends. Nick looked very relaxed with his white shirt halfway unbuttoned and his tight jeans accenting his sexy butt and large package. Just looking at the small bit of chest hair covering his massive chest muscles made her feel warm between her legs. She knew that as long as they lived, her sexy husband would always turn her on.
She rubbed her belly, smiling at the thought of the life that grew there. She thought she would tell Nick when they got back home.
Nick had decided he had enough of detective life. He had seen enough murder and pain, and all the terrible things that people could do to each other. He was ready to enjoy the beauty of the world and his family.
He had resigned his position and moved to live in the shifter world with Lana and her parents. The castle was big enough that they never crossed paths with her parents if they didn’t want to. That made him feel more independent and free. However, Nick loved his in-laws and Clarence and Sara thought that he hung the moon.
A couple of times, Lana joked that they loved him more than they loved her.
Nick seemed to really enjoy helping Clarence lead and helping Lana take care of the people.
Lucy had declared that she wanted to stay in the human world. She had become so accustomed to it that she didn’t think she could be happy living permanently in the shifter world. She lived in Nick’s place and took care of it, so that worked out well. Lana and Nick visited the human world often and stayed with her.
The only good thing to have come from her marriage to Brian was that he had managed to become wealthy in the human world. No one was quite sure how he had amassed such a large amount of riches in the short time he had resided there, but no one wanted to ask questions.
His assets allowed Lucy to live comfortably in the human world. She also earned money by waiting tables at the Paradigm. Colleen had joked with her that she was so sweet and pretty that a nice man would come along soon and sweep her off her feet.
Lucy’s reply was, “I don’t think so. I’m going to be on my own for a very long time before I even think about becoming involved with a man again.”
Colleen just smirked knowingly at her new friend.
Although Lana had come to love many of the people in the human world, such as Colleen, Casey, and Brady, she was most happy when they returned home.
She put the babies in their beds and left Nick to read a story to them. She headed outside to sit with the flowers and inhale the sweet scent of the roses.
The night sky had always fascinated her, too. She sometimes wondered if there were other worlds out there besides just the shifter and mundane human worlds. It made sense to her that there would be. She wondered if any of them had ever visited this planet. She smiled.
Her thoughts returned to Nick. He seemed to be happy living in the shifter world, although he had spent his entire life in the human one. That was all he had really known.
She wondered if Nick ever regretted giving up his life in the human world. He had a lot of friends, and there were a lot of comforts in the human world that didn’t exist in the shifter world.
Nick had finished getting the babies to sleep, and their nanny was in the next room in case they woke up in the middle of the night. He came out and slipped his arms around his wife from behind.
She smiled, as her stomach fluttered each time Nick touched her.
“What are you thinking about, love?” he asked her.
“I was just wondering if you missed living in the human world,” Lana said.
“Let me see. Crime. Murder. Phones ringing non-stop. Cars racing up and down the road at all hours of the night. Pollution. Chaos. Noise. I think that would be a no. Well, as long as you let me go visit my friends and watch the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup, The World Series, and the FIFA soccer tournaments,” Nick said.
“I don’t know,” Lana teased. “That sounds like a lot.”
Then, she turned around into Nick’s arms and forgot that anything else in the world existed.
Later on, after they made love, Lana asked, “How do you feel about being a father again?”
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Scientist Dragon’s Assistant
Irish Dragon Shifter Brothers Series
Blurb
A dragon shifter must protect his human mate from an otherworldly threat.
The Human Assistant
For years, I’ve worked hard to earn my PhD in genetics.
I rarely take time to date.
I’ve never met a man who respected the passion I have for my work.
Until now.
But the man isn’t my boyfriend.
He’s my boss.
Dr. Eli Bennett offers me a job as a research assistant.
I’ll be working for the best scientist in the field.
Eli is not only a genius, but he’s the most handsome man I’ve ever seen.
I love working in his lab.
But my gorgeous scientist has a secret -- he’s not human.
And there’s a big threat looming, one he didn’t even know existed.
He says I’m his mate, and he does everything in his power to protect me.
But his world is so different from mine.
How can I ever fit in?
The Scientist Shifter
Building my career has always been my priority.
I spend my days saving lives in a cutting edge genetics lab.
In the evening, I pursue my passion, studying the stars
My family wants me mated, but a mate is not in my future.
All of my exes said I care more about my lab than I do about our clan.
Then I hire Ava to work for me.
She’s the perfect assistant.
She’s beautiful, smart, and dedicated. She’s everything I could ask for.
I can’t stop thinking about her.
But she's human. And I’m her boss.
After a work event, we give into our passion, and struggle to keep our relationship professional.
On a work trip to Ireland, danger emerges.
My research has led to a startling discovery…
We aren’t alone in the world.
Now protecting Ava is my priority. Her safety is the only thing that matters.
Can a dragon shifter show his human mate that there’s a place for her in his clan?
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1
Eli
“Eli, I’m ready. Are you coming?”
Eli Bennett studied the readout on his computer, comparing it to the notes he’d made the previous week. “There’s definitely an increase,” he muttered to himself.
Something nudged his arm. “Eli!”
He jumped, dropping his pen. It clattered to the floor.
“What?” he asked. He turned away from his equipment to see his girlfriend standing with her arms crossed.
“You said you’d come tonight.”
What was tonight? He had no idea. Dragon shifters don’t get tired as easily as humans do, but he’d been up all the previous night watching the radar in his garage. He’d been tinkering with the sensitivity, and he’d forgotten to go to bed.
During the week, he didn’t allow himself to get lost in his hobby like that. As a geneticist at a lab connected to the Oregon Health and Science University Hospital, he couldn’t afford to be sleep deprived. He lived in Portland to be close to his lab, and he spent his days researching how genes were inherited and how they mutated. He had a PhD in molecular biology, and identifying genetic disorders was his life’s work, but his passion was astrophysics.
He had chosen a different path for his career, but in his spare time, he studied s
pace.
On the weekends, he went home to stay in his family home with his dragon shifter clan. His parents had always indulged his hobby, and when he was fifteen, they let him build a separate garage on their property where he could set up his equipment.
He’d started with astronomy and studied the stars and the planets. Later, as he learned, he moved onto astrophysics, even getting a degree in the field just because he enjoyed it.
When he got lost in his work and forgot to eat, his mother smiled fondly and patted his head. His father clapped him on the back and boasted to the neighbors about how his son had two degrees. Neither of them ever got angry at him.
But that was not the case with his girlfriend. Or any of the females he’d dated. His preoccupation with his work, both paid and unpaid, seemed to piss all of them off beyond reason.
“Tonight?” he asked.
She flung her arms out to her side. “Eli! Yes! There’s a big group going over to the cliffs. We’re supposed to go flying.”
“We can do that anytime.”
“No, we cannot. It’s really windy, which you know makes it more fun.”
Windy weather could be fun, especially when there was a lot of rain and fog. It meant that no one was out. They didn’t have to worry about planes, or drones, or sailboats. The humans would all be taking shelter.
His laptop beeped, and he turned his back to her. “Let me just check a few things.”
Sometime later, there was a loud crashing sound. Eli typed in another equation and then turned around just in time to see his girlfriend opening the door.
His metal recycling bin was on the floor with a few cans spilling out of it. “Did you kick my bin over?”
“Yes!” She stomped her foot. “Eli, I freaking kicked it over! You didn’t even turn around.”
He’d learned to tune out loud noises at the lab. As a shifter, his hearing was more sensitive than a human’s, and he often wore noise-canceling headphones.
“I just had to put the—”
“I don’t care what you had to put in. I don’t want to know. I’m leaving! You can stay here and goof around with your computer, and I’m going to meet our friends at the cliffs.”
He stepped away from his desk. He could tell from the pounding of her heart that she was furious. He still wasn’t sure why she was so angry. She didn’t need him to go flying. She was part of their clan, too; she would know everyone there.
His parents, and Jackson, too, had tried to tell him that he needed to be more sensitive and listen to what she wanted. And he tried to do that—he really did. But the hard truth was that she wasn’t his mate. He knew that. And she did, too. He wasn’t trying to be a bad boyfriend.
“I’m sorry,” he said. He forced a smile. It pained him to leave his project behind before he’d answered all of his questions. “Let’s go right now,” he said. “The fog is only going to get thicker, so we won’t miss much.”
She crossed her arms. “No. I don’t think you understand. I’m going. And you can go if you want. But we aren’t going together.”
“Why not?”
She let her head fall backward. Her hands rolled into fists as she raised her head back up and glared at him. “Damn you, Eli.”
He was baffled. “What’s wrong?” If he was honest, he didn’t really want to know, but he didn’t want to treat her badly. He did care about her, even if she wasn’t his mate.
“Let me spell it out in simple terms. I am breaking up with you.”
He nodded. “Okay.”
She made a growling sound that was dangerously close to the sound shifters made when they changed. He took a step back, shielding his computer and equipment. “Please don’t shift in here.”
“You really are an idiot.” She spun around and then she was gone.
He waited a moment, a little stunned by her wrath. Then he peeked out the door. She was truly gone. Now he didn’t have to worry about going down to the cliffs. He was free to work on his measurements and study his data.
Five hours later, someone knocked on his door. He inhaled, fearing it was his girlfriend again. Or now, he supposed he should call her his ex-girlfriend.
But it wasn’t her. It was his best friend, Jackson. He was alone. His mate, Helena, wasn’t with him.
Jackson didn’t wait to be invited in. He barged in, just like he always did.
“Hello,” Eli called out over his shoulder. He had a few more calculations to check.
“Why didn’t you come down to the cliffs?” Jackson asked.
“I was busy.”
Jackson didn’t share his love for outer space. He always said the Earth was good enough for him. But he also didn’t give Eli a hard time about the way he spent his free time. Jackson was a little more open-minded than other shifters in their clan. He’d married the daughter of a demi-god after all, and he was supportive of his cousin Garrett, who’d left their clan to live in Las Vegas.
However, Jackson was not accepting of everything. He wanted Eli to be mated, just like Jackson himself was. He couldn’t stop going on and on about how wonderful it was to have a partner.
Then, Jackson asked about Eli’s girlfriend. “Why didn’t you come with her? We had a lot of fun with the gusts of wind.”
“I was busy.”
“Right.” Jackson came and stood in front of Eli. Jackson crossed his arms over his chest. He was a big guy, even for a shifter. He pulled the notebook from Eli’s hands. “Why didn’t you come?”
Eli surrendered the notebook and plopped down in his office chair. “She broke up with me. It was very loud and dramatic.”
“She broke up with you?” Jackson came to stand beside him, putting one hand on his shoulder. “Man, I’m sorry.”
“I’m not,” Eli said. And he wasn’t. Lately, she had always been mad at him. “I think I’m done with dating. I’m not like you; I’m not going to find a mate. So, I just need to quit wasting my time.”
“I promise you it’s not a waste of time once you find the right person.”
“The females I date never want me to work.”
“That’s not true. None of them have complained about your job at the hospital. They get annoyed because you’re choosing to spend all your time in this garage, holed up with the stars. It seems like you care more about them than anything else.”
“Jackson.” Eli picked up his pencil and spun it in between his fingers. “Listen to me. I’m just not cut out for mating.”
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