“She’ll wake up, Twistie. Just give her time. Her body had a lot of healing to do.” His hand was slowly running up and down my back. The feel of his skin against mine made me shiver with desire.
“But she’s healed, you can barely see the bruises now,” I mumbled, my eyes getting heavier. We’d just finished making love, my body was relaxed and sated against him, and every time I started to feel happiness and security, I’d remember my mom was unconscious two rooms down.
I felt his lips gently kiss my hair again. He did that a lot, and I loved the pure sweetness of it. It wasn’t lust or passion, though we had that in spades. It was intimacy beyond sex, and I lived for those little moments where he showed his sweetness. I relished them. He was an alpha, but an alpha that understood those under him were meant to be protected. He was the alpha I never wanted, but the one I needed. I was a fox in a cat world, so I’d never be a part of the club, but I’d found my place here. I was his mate and anything else I wanted to be.
“I love you,” I whispered, falling asleep in his arms. Right where I belonged, out of the shadows and out of his blind spot.
Six
She fell asleep on my chest every night. Her smell surrounded me, and my cat was more at ease since she’d been by my side. My instincts were urging me to breed her, and since we fucked like rabbits without using any protection, my guess was that it wouldn’t be long until she was having my cub.
I stared at the ceiling entirely at peace with the way things unfolded for us. Her skulk was moving on, and the women and the children had left the compound. Hopefully, they found a better family to belong to. If they were smart, they’d have followed Eduardo’s mother wherever she was now. She’d had the makings of a good leader, all she needed was the right mate standing beside her to make her great. I had no doubt because I’d seen it.
My eyes closed as I started to drift. I felt it coming on, it was there and over in a flash. I saw it clear as day, and then I heard it from down the hall. There was one pissed-off cat.
“Twistie. We’ve got get up.”
She was already waking from the noise. There was a knock on my door, and I heard Kitty shout, “Six!”
“Shit. Coming,” I threw a shirt at Twistie, and she slipped her arms through it then crawled out of bed. It hung down to the middle of her thighs, and if shit wasn’t hitting the fan right now, I’d bend her over and fuck her while she wore one of my shirts.
“What is it?” Twistie asked, pulling her hair up into a bun as she moved behind me.
“Your mother.”
About the Author
Annelise Reynolds is a devoted mother to two amazing kids. She resides in a small town in south Texas where cows outnumber people and there is no such thing as being anonymous. She loves the small-town life, but misses being just one of many in the big city. On any given day you can find Annelise hanging out with her kids watching movies or wrestling, depending on which night of the week it is. If she’s not at work or with her kids, she’s writing or reading, anything to do with books.
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Other Works by Annelise Reynolds
Steel Demons MC Series
Phoenix Bar
Ember’s Burn
Holiday Heartthrob Series
Bidding on Santa
Stupid Cupid
Christmas Calamity
Hard to Love Series
Afraid of Love
Alluring Assassins with Dawn Sullivan
Cassia
Standalone Titles
Sweet Treats
Ridin’ Nerdy
Part VII
WHITEOUT
South Texas Dark Leopards MC
R.R. Born
Recognition
To Kris Shade Riley
I would have never guessed when I gave you a book that it would have led me here.
Thank you for supporting Indie and New Authors and thank you for stopping at my table.
You’re a rare treasure.
Blurb
Oz “Wizard” Zhang, Vice-President of the Dark Leopards Motorcycle Club, knows only three truths in life:
Women are trouble
Relationships are messy
Mating is for fools
Wanting no part of the Dark Leopards’ current mating insanity, Oz escapes their pheromone-flooded clubhouse. He jumps on his bike and leaves town, seeking solitude on the open road. But when a freak Texas snowstorm forces him to take refuge in a hole-in-the-wall shifter bar, everything he thought he knew about life gets turned upside down.
Ronnie Garrison is a jill-of-all-trades. This week she’s slinging drinks in a dive bar in the middle of nowhere, Texas. A life on the run is hardly living, but she’ll do whatever it takes to protect her little sister. By this time next week, they’ll be in a new city, with new names. She just had to finish her last shift and they’d be on their way.
When Oz finds Ronnie in a back alley, her body is battered but her spirit’s not broken. During the storm, someone nearly killed her while snatching her sister, and now Ronnie’s determined to find the most important person in her life before it’s too late. Will Oz continue to live by his rules, and just walk away? Or will he help Ronnie, and find a new truth during the whiteout?
Chapter Ninety-Seven
The torrential rains turned a refreshing motorcycle ride into something cold and nasty. Then into something white and fluffy. Oz pulled over to a bar in the middle of nowhere when the snow flurries distorted his view of the highway. He knew better than anyone that Texans didn’t know how to drive on ice or anything resembling frozen precipitation. He parked his silver and black Fatboy motorcycle near the corner of the bar, away from the crowd of snow-covered cycles.
Oz Zhang had always been
