Authors: Zach Collins
Twisted Time (11 page)
“How the hell do you know?” Mila stormed the main hall. The Elven King was pissed and she didn’t really care too much. He had been acting like an asshole for weeks. And she was about sick of it. They were mates, and he refused to acknowledge it until they returned to their Stratums.
“They are opening the portals in a week. Then we will be able to talk about all this,” Deke, the Elven King said to his mate impatiently.
“You know we are mates, you admitted it. Why won't you just accept the claiming?” Mila shouted.
“I have my reasons, you have to trust me,” Deke said.
“Damn it, I have been more than patient, not anymore, I am done, if you don’t want this then get the fuck out of the way because I am going to find a new man,” Mila yelled and left the room.
Shit, how had things gotten so fucked up? He was sure that Mila would be reasonable, she was supposed to be his perfect mate, which was supposed to include being calm, sedate, and most of all—an adult. Mila was behaving like a child. He knew that she was impatient, but he was not going to get into his personal life while stuck in the
Wizard Stratum
.
Deke knew that Mila had a point, but she was going to be shocked and pissed when she discovered they already had another mate. One that was waiting for him to return to the
Elven Stratum
as they spoke. Deke had left Raven in charge while he was gone. It was well known the two men were close, but no one knew how close, they had been lovers for years. They also knew they were destined to have another mate. Finding Mila had been a shock.
Raven was going to be excited, and pissed he missed the meeting, but he would be furious if Deke claimed their mate without him. Therefore, the last month had been torture staying away from her. She was everything they wanted in a mate physically. Tall, sexy, red hair. Just thinking of her made him hard. But she was also impetuous, and demanding. Something they were going to have to talk to her about.
It was simple, since being able to travel to the
Human Stratum,
Raven and Deke had experimented. Deke was a Dom, and loved it, Raven liked it also, but in this case, they were going to really have to talk to their mate about this. She was the Queen of the Paladins, the
Paladin Stratum
Warriors
─
they
were fierce. Deke had been wary about how this was going to work out.
Bortant stood over the city waiting for the portal to open, Killian and his mates may be going back to the
Fae Stratum,
but he was moving on. The Elves has something he wanted and he was going to get it.
Looking at the men he had accrued since Dion’s death, he wanted to snarl at them, the pissants. They needed a lot more training to get them into shape. He was not going to make the same mistakes that Dion did. He would not make his move until he was sure of the outcome. Either it was win or die trying—there was no other option.
He felt the ripple of power flowing around him. Bortant was more than ready for this to happen. The circle formed and he grinned, he was going to get everything he wanted. Including Mila, the Queen of the Paladins, her luscious body was more than enough to keep him awake at night. The only thing that would make this better was her—shackled to a wall begging for her release.
Stratum Series
Wasted Time – Book One
Enough Time – Book Two
A Lion for Christmas – Book Two ½
Twisted Time – Book Three
Meridian Warriors Series by Jana Leigh and Zach Collins
Meridian Warriors: Xander and Des
Book Two – Coming Soon
Web site:
www.zachcollinsauthor.com
Meridian Warriors Book One
By Jana Leigh Zack Collins
They were large, tall men, both leaders, and both dominant. Sometimes both of them wondered how they were ever paired together. The Gods truly had a sense of humor. Xander was the leader of the city they lived in, Des was his Second, and they were a force to be reckoned with when challenged.
Standing well over six foot, Des had black hair and Xander had white. They were opposites in looks and demeanor. Xander was Alpha all the way. He dominated every room he was in, where Des was a bit lighter and had a lot more humor according to him. Xander would shake his head and laugh every time his mate made the statement.
Xander had been the leader of the Warriors when they left their planet. However, when all the other ships were destroyed in the blast from the planet blowing up, he became their overall leader. Unfortunately, the ship they were on was only filled with male Warriors. None of their women had survived. They knew they were supposed to have a second mate, it was the way of their planet, but since the females were all dead, they were forced to accept and be happy with only one mate.
Xander never complained, he loved Des like a mate, like a man, and like a friend. There was no one he would rather be with—in time of trouble or happiness—than Des, though both of them felt the emptiness of their missing mate.
The leader pushed his tongue past his mate’s mouth and demanded a response. Des did not let him down, and they explored each other’s mouth as if it was the first time they’d kissed. Thankfully, Xander had just gotten out of the shower, and hadn’t bothered to dress so the cloth around his waist was quickly dispatched. Des only had on sparse clothes from his workout, which were quickly removed while they continued to kiss each other.
Des ran his hands over Xander’s shoulders and chest. Their muscles were sculpted showing how they kept in shape in case they needed to defend themselves. Xander’s face was angular, and what some may not consider handsome, until they looked into his eyes. They were the most amazing color. Some would say they were purple,
but whatever
, Des loved looking into them. While Des was boyishly handsome, no matter their three hundred human year age, he had a perfect nose, cheekbones, and mouth. His face would be one many of the human women swooned over when they surfaced.
Xander ran his hands down his mate’s back and grabbed his ass. It was tight and firm and he loved to pull his mate close and rub their cocks together while they petted and kissed each other.
When Des finally pulled back, he looked at Xander and smiled, “Well, welcome home to me.”
Warning: Sexually explicit content.
Ménage – M/M/F
The Otrera Island Book One
by Sabrina Kent
Leila shook her head and tried to release the wench, but it was stuck. She jerked and jerked on it, but it wouldn't budge. She had to get down to the engine and fix the problem before she drifted too far off course. Leila climbed down the ladder to the engine and took off the case. She began to go through the checklist she had learned in class. As she was checking the fuel line, the boat lurched and she fell back into the side of the engine casing. She heard an awful loud cracking noise from above so she stood and rubbed the sting away on her hip from the fall as she dashed up the ladder to the deck to see what had happened. She climbed out on the deck and turned toward the bow when the flash of lightening lit up the sky just in time for her to see the boom swing toward her head. Leila put up her arms and covered her head just as the boom hit her, knocking her overboard.
As she hit the water, she dragged in a lungful of air and prayed she would be able to resurface. She came up sputtering, her arms flailing about, looking for the boat. She could see it in the distance and began to swim toward it. She saw the sea was rough due to the storm and was tossing the boat back and forth. She saw the boat tip dangerously to one side and some items fall overboard. Leila kept swimming in the direction of the boat, which seemed to be getting further and further away. Miraculously, she came upon a life preserver that had been on deck and somehow managed to put it on in the water. Then she was able to float and drift on her back in order to rest her arms and legs from swimming. Leila was a good swimmer or she wouldn't have been on the water, but she wasn't a long distance swimmer. She turned her head to see where the boat was and it seemed she would had to have been a speed swimmer to catch it at this point.
As the rain poured down on her face, it mixed with her tears as she realized she was in real trouble. It was the first time since she had hatched this whole plan that she doubted herself.
Leila floated; her arms and legs tired from fighting the roughened sea. The blackness took over, and she remembered nothing more as she passed out.
Warning: Sexual explicit content: F/F
Forever in Your Arms Vampire Series Book Two
By Shelby Lynn
Ramos looked out over the huge hall in front of him. Most of the familiar faces he had known forever, it seemed.
This should have been one of the happiest days of his life
. The presenting of a Mate to the Pack was usually a celebratory occasion followed by all the drinking and eating a person could ever want after the Acceptance ritual was performed before the Elders of the Pack.
For Demon Dog pairs, this meant shifting into their counterpart and basically making him or her theirs in what they call the “Mating Dance,” the final link as they share their blood with a bite, linking them together physically and mentally during intercourse. This custom has been followed by the Demon Dogs for thousands of years. Sex and nudity wasn’t something the Pack hid away behind closed doors. All adult Demon Dogs were very open around their Pack members.
Now, if the mate wasn’t a Demon Dog then they did things a little differently for the mate’s peace of mind. The couple mated in human form if they weren’t both Shifters of the same species. There was a small luxurious tent put up just outside the Pack house. The intercourse part of the Mating was done in private. The only thing the Elders verified were the Mating Marks from their mating bites.
At that point, the Elders welcomed the new mate into the Pack, and the party began.
That was the way he wanted his mate to be accepted. Ramos knew it would come to a shock to most of the Pack that Levi was a Vampire. As he looked at his people, he had to believe they would not abandon him in his time of need.
“Welcome—first I would like to thank all of you for coming on such short notice. I have some very important news to tell all of you, and a huge thing to ask of you as well. Well, I am not going to beat around the bush per say. I have found my mate.” Ramos could feel the confusion coming off his people as he continued.
“I have been blessed to find the one person who completes me in every way. As many of you know, several of our mates come from outside of our Pack. My mate is the first Vampire mating I have ever been aware of in my lifetime.” Ramos could hear a few gasps and grumbles in the background as he went on. “It has been written though in the ancient texts that Vampire and Demon Dog matches were some of the most powerful couples of all time. Truly though—the fact of the issue is much more complicated.
“For you see, my friends…my mate has been kidnapped by the Rebel Dogs. I would have liked nothing better than to introduce Levi to you. I know you would come to like and trust him if he was given the chance. Unfortunately, on the way home tonight, we were attacked and were outnumbered. My mate was captured and taken before I could do a thing about it as we were fighting off all the Rebel Dogs.” Ramos went on to tell them everything that had happened, except for the man with the needle. Something was holding him back from confiding this part of what happened. When he finally came to the end of his speech, he was glad to see most of them had taken it pretty well. He looked back over the room, and finally asked them to help him.
“My people—I need your help finding my mate. I cannot track him, since we have not mated.” He held his breath in anticipation of the answer they would give him. Honestly, he couldn’t anticipate their answer in this instance. Maybe it was his turbulent emotions at losing his mate. With each passing hour, the feeling would intensify until he once more had his mate safe within his arms.
Maggie had been watching the emotions playing across everyone’s face in the crowded meeting hall. This had come as a shock, and it still lingered on many of the faces. It was going to take one person to get this started and bring all the others around. She would do it herself, but it wouldn’t work nearly as well coming from the Beta of the Pack.
As she looked around the room looking for a likely candidate, her gaze fell on a recent member of the Pack. A Demon Dog who had
rabbios
attacked Jeremy close to a year ago. It’s a deadly disease to the Demon Dogs and the only way outside of a Mating that can turn a human into a shifter. Considering everything he had been through in the last year, he was doing exceptionally well. It was only his extreme shyness that was keeping him from fully evolving into the strong shifter he was now meant to be.
She could hardly believe her eyes. Jeremy was slowly making his way toward the front of the room.
Could it truly be
? Maggie thought.
Warning: Sexual explicit content: M/M/F