The Shadow's Leap [Mates of the Jaguar 1] (Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting) by Marla Monroe

Author:Marla Monroe
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2017-05-31T04:00:00+00:00

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I’ll rip his heart out and punch holes in his lungs for this. He had no right to use me as a pawn when he knew my past.

Then her great-uncle had never much cared for her in the first place. The only kind thing he’d ever done for her was dissolve the mating between her and her abusive mate. She’d had to subject herself to his beatings on five different occasions and have a witness come forward to prove her claims. Since shifters were often violent during sex, the bruising would be commonplace and easily explained away.

Now she had to be sure and get pregnant by her mates so that she could remain with them as their mate. How many ways could it get any more fucked up? The worse part of it all was that they were her true mates, and she wasn’t sure she could get pregnant. Two years with her ex hadn’t produced a kit, and with the decline in pregnancies among their Leap, she was afraid that she would be one of those who’d ended up sterile.

The thought of allowing the arranged mating to continue, the disappointment of not being able to become pregnant, then the mandate that she leave her true mates and take their Felix as a mate was enough stress to prevent even a fertile leopard from carrying a kit. What was she going to do?

Run.

That one word sounded so simple but held major consequences should she decide to do it. Living out in the human world without a Leap to fall back on, or take comfort from, would not only put her at risk among the humans but also make her fair game to other unmated male shifters searching for a female.

I can’t ask my true mates to leave everything they know to go with me. They would offer, but I’ll just refuse.

Honestly, did she think she had a choice where those two were concerned? She talked a big game, but the truth of the matter was that they held sway over her heart, so everything else in her world would fall into step behind them.

There just had to be another way to settle the problem without bloodshed or losing their place in their shadow. The thought of them saying good-bye to all of their friends and any family they might have among their people broke her heart. They’d talked of caring for some of the kits in their home and how much they wanted kits of their own someday. Tayler couldn’t see relegating them to a life without something they dearly wanted. Nor could she see leaving them if she didn’t get pregnant to go to their Felix. That would be equally cruel for them.

I’m damned if I do and damned if I don’t agree to this crazy scheme.

One thing she’d learned growing up in the political unrest of a shifter group was that she could never depend on anything turning out the way she’d planned it. That proved even truer when someone thought they could circumvent the issue by using trickery.

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