One True Mate 3: Shifter's Echo by Lisa Ladew

Author:Lisa Ladew [Ladew, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Heat Publishing LLC
Published: 2016-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Dahlia wrote furiously, doing the only thing that could disengage her mind from her troubles, so she didn’t have to think about other worlds, lost loves, or strange jungles that shouldn’t have ever been there.

Her fingers pounded against the keyboard until they hurt, until six hours later, when she finally typed the two words she’d been seeking since she’d started to write her short story about the werewolf who fell in love with a human woman, and how exactly they made their life work.

She read over the last few paragraphs:

Cole held out a hand to her. Danielle took it, trying to keep her fingers from shaking, as he spoke with an amber eye to the horizon. “We’ll go, then. If we can’t build a life here, we’ll go somewhere we can. No matter what our differences, we can make it work. I knew I had to have you the moment I saw you, and that hasn’t changed, human or not.”

Hope soared inside Danielle. But… “Cole, can we, well, do you want…”

“Babies? Yes. We can have babies, Danielle. They’ll be strong warriors like their father, or beautiful, proud vixens like their mother.”

He pulled her close and stared down into her eyes, wiping away one errant tear. “Don’t worry, baby, I’ll take care of you from now on. You’ll never have to be afraid of anything again.”

They kissed, the sun finally slipping below the horizon as their lips met. Danielle’s eyes were slightly open, so she saw the flash of light in the sky as it went down, like the very gods were blessing them.

She grimaced. Cheesy. Awful. But even as she criticized herself, she knew she could fix it up into something her fan base would love. She’d been writing for years without ever trying to get a book published. She did it because she had to, because the stories filled her mind and tore at her brain until she put them out into the world.

Last year, she’d worked sixteen-hour shifts for over a week when a neighboring town flooded and homeowners had to abandon their animals on their land. During that week, with its constant flow of injured and flood-water-poisoned animals, she hadn’t had time to write even a word before falling into bed, and the build-up of stories in her imagination had made it hard for her to tell fantasy from reality by the fifth day. Her boss had finally forced her to go home sick because of her mental state, and she’d spent that day writing eighteen hours straight, not even stopping to eat. She’d completed a full thirty-two thousand words and put it up on the online storytelling community where she had almost six hundred followers who devoured every word she wrote.

Her avatar there was Accalia, which meant she-wolf. She’d chosen it when Acca Larentia, who had been the adoptive mother of Romulus and Remus from Roman times, had been taken. She’d always loved all things wolf, and after the captured werewolf had been discovered in her dream world was when the urge to write had overtaken her.

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