Dragon’s Clutch
Sanmere Shifters
Lola Gabriel
Dragon’s Clutch: Sanmere Shifters
Text Copyright © 2020 by Lola Gabriel
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events or locales is entirely coincidental.
First printing, 2020
Publisher
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Contents
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Epilogue
Other Books You Will Love
Thank You
About the Author
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1
Callin McKenzie looked up from the script he was going over when there was a knock on his front door. He knew it had to be a member of the dragon pack he was a part of; they all lived in a large apartment block in LA and if it wasn’t someone who lived in the building, the doorman would have called up to tell Callin someone was here to see him.
He debated ignoring the door. It was likely Valerie, the pack alpha and his co-star in the movie he was due to start shooting tomorrow. Callin didn’t really like Valerie and it was bad enough that they were going to be spending up to fourteen hours a day together filming without her turning up at his apartment too.
Sighing, he got up and headed for the door. Although the idea of entertaining Valerie wasn’t how he had wanted his Sunday afternoon to go down, he was a professional and if Valerie wanted to go over a part of the script with him, he would do it. He knew that as an A-list Hollywood actor, he was in a position most people would kill for and he wasn’t about to let his personal feelings for Valerie affect his career.
He already knew his career could only last another ten years, maybe fifteen at the absolute most, and he had no intention of wrecking it before that. Callin was twenty-seven and he would stop aging at twenty-nine. He would have to drop out of the limelight at around forty or so as he couldn’t risk the scandal that would arise when people noticed that he didn’t age. He couldn’t risk anyone finding out that he was a dragon. Valerie had only allowed him to explore the idea of being an actor when he had promised to get her in the door with the directors on his last movie and he hoped she understood the same thing as him. Ten years and it was all over.
He feared she didn’t get it yet, but he hoped in time she would, or that she would get bored of acting like she got bored of most things, and move on of her own accord, because if she didn’t, he knew she would refuse to listen to reason when the pack tried to tell her why she had to step away from the fame.
Callin pulled the door open, his face set in a fake smile that widened into a real smile when he saw it wasn’t Valerie, but Lucian standing on his doorstep. Lucian was the pack beta and he was genuinely pleased to see him. Lucian was Callin’s best friend, but he was so much more than that; he was practically his father.
When Callin had been barely more than a baby, almost two years old, his parents had been killed by a hunter. Lucian had turned up, too late to save his parents, who were shot with bullets made of Ure, a rare metal that could kill any shifter, but in time to save him. Lucian had managed to take the hunter down, and he had raised Callin like his own son, although he had never made any secret of the fact of who Callin really was and who his parents had been. Despite the tragedy of his early life, Callin had had a happy childhood and he would always love Lucian like a father as well as the best friend he had become as Callin got older.
Callin stood back from the door and gestured to Lucian to come in.
“How’s it going?” Lucian asked, nodding to the script in Callin’s hand as Callin closed the door and they made their way back to the living room.
“Good. I’m just going back over the scenes we’ll be shooting tomorrow,” Callin said.
“Is now a bad time, then?” Lucian asked.
Callin shook his head.
“No. I’ve got it all down, to be honest. I’m just passing the time, really. Do you want a beer?” he said.
“Sure,” Lucian said, sitting down on the large, black leather couch.
Callin closed the script and put it on the low, glass coffee table and then walked across to the kitchen area of his open-plan living space. He pulled open the fridge and grabbed two bottles of beer. He opened them and came back to the couch, handing a bottle to Lucian before sitting down in a large armchair that matched his couch. Lucian raised his bottle in Callin’s direction.
“Break a leg,” he grinned.
“Cheers,” Callin said.
They both drank from their bottles.
“So, you and Valerie starring together in the romance movie of the decade, huh?” Lucian said.
“Yeah,” Callin winced. “I really didn’t think that part through when I convinced the director to hire her. I should have waited for the next movie—one that wasn’t romantic in the least. I just hope she’s professional enough to know that when the cameras stop rolling, the chemistry between us goes away.”
“I’m sure she is,” Lucian replied. “She might not have hit
