Miss Taken by Milly Taiden

Author:Milly Taiden [Taiden, Milly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Multicultural, Paranormal, Romantic Comedy, Fantasy, Multicultural & Interracial, Werewolves & Shifters
ISBN: 151759264X
Amazon: B016964GPS
Publisher: Latin Goddess Press
Published: 2016-01-05T05:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

Luke saw pain flash through her brown eyes. She smiled, but he knew she hurt at the memory of her parent.

“Mom loved doing things just with me.” She sighed. “She said I was like her and living with my father would destroy me slowly.”

“What about your brother? It wouldn’t destroy him as well?”

“No, it wasn’t that. My father was raised to believe women needed to be taken care of, that they were weaker than men. He raised my brother in the same manner. My mother died when Peter was still a baby. He only remembers my father’s examples of how to treat a woman. Peter and I used to get along when he was little, but then my father slowly drove a wedge between us. Don’t get me wrong, I still love my brother, I just can’t stand being around him for long. My father was a hard man, it was always his way or no way.”

His chest clenched at her words. The idea that living with her father would hurt Kira in any way angered him. What kind of a man tried to destroy his children?

“Why? He was your father. Surely he loved and protected you.”

She started walking beside him again, only slower. “My father didn’t love my mother. He married her because she got pregnant with me. It was one of the reasons she was always so unhappy. She had no other family. No one who could help her and she wasn’t like me. My mother was a gracious and beautiful woman, but she didn’t know how to survive on her own. She wasn’t going to let that happen to me, though. My mom raised me to be independent. She saw what life with my father was like and she wanted better for me. ”

“In what sense?” He wanted, no, he needed to know more about this complex woman. She had so much more in her than he could have imagined. The lion in him had claimed her the moment he got her scent, but the more he spoke to her, the more Luke, the man, wanted her.

She glanced at him with a grin. “I’m stubborn. I won’t let anyone tell me what to do. He, my dad, tried to do just that from his grave.” She cleared her throat. “I have to get married or I lose what rightfully belongs to me.” She shook her head. “I didn’t marry when he ordered me to, and I sure as hell won’t do it now.”

“You were engaged?”

She glanced at him sheepishly. “Three times actually.”

“Were they your father’s choices and that is why it didn’t work?”

“Two of them were my choices; they wanted to change who I was. The third was my father's choice and he was just like him.”

“Are you against marriage?” He wondered how she’d feel about being mated. Would she object to his claiming her as his woman?

“Not at all. If someone is in love and wants to get married, more power to them. I’ve seen what a fucked up marriage can do to people and their kids.

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