Crookshollow foxes box set: The complete fox shapeshifter romance series by Holmes Steffanie

Author:Holmes, Steffanie [Holmes, Steffanie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Bacchanalia House
Published: 2015-12-31T05:00:00+00:00

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“Get her out of this house,” I snarled at Ryan.

I’d found him in his studio, an enormous, high-ceilinged room with elaborate plaster detailing and an inlaid marble floor. It must have been a ballroom at one point, but now it served as Ryan’s studio space – a white grand piano in the centre was covered with canvases stretched across easels. Benches stacked high with paint-stained cushions sat beside the floor to ceiling windows, overlooking the gardens and forest below. Lamps stood scattered throughout the room, bent at odd angles to create beautiful, delicate lighting. Shelves and boxes of paints and supplies lined one wall, beneath a large mural depicting a wild fox hunt painted in the traditional style of the rest of the house – the only reminder of the room’s previous occupants.

Ryan was standing behind an easel, his hands moving furiously across the canvas as he sketched out a new composition. His eyes had a kind of glazed look, as if he’d had a couple of drinks. He didn't look up, or acknowledge me in any way.

I stepped closer. "Ryan? Can you hear me?"

“Huh? Who are you talking about?” This time he tore his eyes away from the canvas, and looked at me.

“I'm talking about Melissa. When you left the kitchen, she started talking to me and … argh! She is impossible. I am asking you, as your mate, to make her leave.”

“You know I can’t do that, Alex. If I send her from my protection, Isengrim will kill her. I don't want that on my conscience. Why does she make you so angry?”

“I can’t help it. I hate her. She’s so … urgh!”

He laughed. “Ignore her. She’s feeling a little possessive. Can you blame her?” He stood up, setting down his palette and crossing to me in a few wide strides. He wrapped me in his arms, resting his chin on top of my head as he stroked my hair. “You do have me utterly under your spell, you know.”

I rested my head against his shoulder, breathing in the deep, spicy smell of him. "I know."

“Try to imagine things from her point of view. She takes an incredible risk to come here, cross through the boundaries Isengrim’s pack is establishing, to deliver me a message. It seems that even stone-hearted Melissa still has some feelings for me. She arrives, only to discover I’m in bed with someone else, and that we’ve already become linked. For years, she’d begged me to link with her, but I refused, waiting for my last niggling doubts to fade away. And within a few hours of knowing you, I had linked myself forever to you. She is jealous of you, Alex.”

“Mmm-hmmm.” He was making it sound a bit better. “Supermodel gorgeous, shape shifting Melissa is jealous of me. Right."

He signed, reaching up and stroking my hair.

"I’m sorry for being like this, Ryan. I know I sound crazy–"

"You do."

"And I know you've got other things on your mind."

"Yes." His voice choked a little on that word.

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