Curves for Shifters by Zoey Thames

Author:Zoey Thames [Thames, Zoey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 978-1-944138-64-6
Publisher: Etopia Press
Published: 2016-10-27T04:00:00+00:00

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It was so quiet here in the locker room that it set Jackson’s nerves on edge. At Jackson’s request, he and Aaron each occupied separate locker rooms. Normally a place like this would be full of trainers and assistants right before a fight. There would be pep talks and last-minute strategy sessions. But right now there was nothing. Only the hum of a soda machine’s cooler. It was almost unnerving.

Too late to back down now. He’d set this in motion. He had to see it through to the bitter end.

He leaned against the row of lockers, feeling the cold metal press into his bare back. Soon he’d be in the ring. He’d be shifting into his wolf, fighting against Aaron as the council looked on.

God, what the hell was he doing? How had everything gone so wrong?

It had taken every ounce of his strength to keep his face expressionless when he’d demanded this fight. It had taken every bit of his self-control, finally honed after years of martial arts and combat training, to stay cold as a marble statue. He’d seen the hurt in Aaron’s eyes. The man had hid it almost instantly. But Jackson knew him. Knew him so well.

He clenched his fists, staring at a space on the textured concrete floor between his feet.

And Michelle. Part of him had wanted to challenge her. To rattle her the same way she’d shaken him to the core when she’d burst into the plane and his wolf had scented her, had realized the true mate bond. But the rest of him had been screaming in his mind, outraged and hating himself for doing this to her. That first part of him had wanted to defy his wolf. Reject the wolf’s insistence that she was their mate. Challenge his own attraction to her, the urge to make her like him. To make her appreciate him. Even to love him…?

No. Even his lust for her was a weakness. Just as his love for Aaron Duvall had been a weakness. He had to remember that. No matter what else happened tonight.

And look at him. Always the bad guy. Back when Aaron hadn’t wanted to expand Dark Howl Security to the West Coast, Jackson had sold his fifty-fifty founder’s share in the company and moved to California on his own. Started his company, and damn the consequences and damn all it cost him. He could still remember the anger in Aaron’s eyes when Jackson had told him what he intended, when he’d played that final card.

Anger, but underneath it all, that same hurt. That same flinch of betrayal.

He covered his face with his hands. What the hell was he doing? But he’d set them on this course. He could not stop it now. There was too much at stake. Not just money. Screw the money. It was pride. Having to be right. Always right.

He wouldn’t even admit to Aaron he’d been wrong about Michelle. Hell, that wasn’t it—or at least not all of it.

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