The Author’s TrueMate
Necklace Chronicles BookSix
By R. E. Butler
Copyright 2020 R. E. Butler
TheAuthor’s Truemate (Necklace Chronicles Book Six)
By R. E. Butler
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Edited by Sarah Dawn Johnson
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For my beloved Montana,the real Mytan.Aroo, buddy.
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Thanks to Joyce, Shelley, and Ann forbeta reading.
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Table ofContents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
ChapterEight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
ChapterFourteen
ChapterFifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
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TheAuthor’s Truemate
Necklace Chronicles BookSix
By R. E. Butler
Paranormal romance author TrinityJeremiah loves to write about bad boy alpha wolf shifters and thewomen who love them. When she attends her first book signing, a fanbegs Trinity to write a story redeeming her series’ most popularvillain, Wrath. When Trinity refuses, the reader gives her aparting gift of a necklace that—when she puts it on—sends her intoa realm that mirrors the stories she’s written.
Wrath Valentine, alpha of the BloodWolves, has been dreaming about a curvy brunette for years. Despitebeing the best hunter and most powerful male around, he’s neverbeen able to find his true mate, the female he’s certain haunts hisdreams. The endless nights without his true mate have filled himwith blood lust, and he spends his days trying to destroy the otheralphas and take over the realm.
When Trinity wakes up in Wrath’s bedsporting the bonding tattoo that matches his, she isn’t interestedin getting to know the alluring man who haunted her dreams—shewants to get back to reality. Discovering that the reader whocursed her into her book’s reality is a character she wrote aboutin a story, Trinity learns that she’s definitely not dreaming andthe stories she wrote about actually happened—in another realm.Trinity will be faced with the toughest decision of her life—leaveWrath behind and return to her own world or stay in hisforever.
Chapter One
Prologue
Veltris howled in rage when he finallyreached the cavern and found his true mate, bleeding, bruised, andchained to the wall. She was unconscious, the fresh smell of bloodfilling his senses and driving his wolf to the edge ofmadness.
Wrath would suffer! Him and his damnedhybrid pack.
Veltris shifted to his human form andpulled the pins on the cuffs to free Gemma. She moaned weakly butdidn’t regain consciousness.
His beta, Ren, joined him, snarling atGemma’s condition. Ren’s line of wolves were blessed with healingpowers. He put his hand on Gemma’s forehead and said softly, “I canfix all that was done to her.”
“Not here,” Veltris saidwith a low voice. “Not in this place of death andmisery.”
Ren gave him a sharp nod. Drake, oneof the pack guards, let out a low growl as he stared toward thedoorway of the underground cavern. “I can hear the others relayingthe message that Wrath and the Blood Wolves are on their wayback.”
“We must leave,” Ren said.“I can carry her.”
Veltris’s hands tightened on hisbeloved mate. “She’s mine to carry. I failed her once. I won’tagain.”
“As you wish, but let’s gonow,” Ren said.
The trio moved out of the small cavewithin the underground tunnel system that the Blood Wolves calledhome. Veltris and his pack of purebred wolves had created adistraction for the Blood Wolves to draw them from the cavern sothey could get in and free Gemma. His mate had been taken threedays earlier by the alpha of the hybrids in retaliation for twoBlood Wolf males who’d been killed during a full moon hunt. Veltrishad known Wrath would come after him, but he hadn’t thought he’dtake Gemma. As a fully mated and pregnant alpha female, she wasoff-limits to any and all who would intend to cause her harm. Nopurebred would harm a female, let alone an alpha female.Disagreements and territorial battles were between malesonly.
Not that the Blood Wolves had anyhonor. As hybrids of vampires and wolves, they had traits of bothsupernatural creatures. But while they’d inherited vampire speedand strength, they hadn’t gotten wolf honor. It wasn’t exactly aphysical trait, but it was an important one all thesame.
Veltris and his people left thecaverns and headed for their home territory. Because of Gemma’sinjuries they had to pass through the dangerous Eldrin Forest,where the Mytan—a creature straight out of nightmares—roared,looking for prey. It would be a tough route, but they had to getaway from the Blood Wolves and safely into their own territory soshe could be healed.
Her physical wounds would be gone, buthe had no doubt that she’d been mentally harmed as well, and thosewounds would take longer to heal.
Scouts left them and spread out,shifting into their beasts and keeping an ear out for the Mytan.Even the Blood Wolves steered clear of the enormous fur-coveredbeast that howled like a dog and had icy blue eyes.
Once they made it to their hometerritory, they went straight to the lodge where Veltris and Gemmashared a room. Ren followed them, muttering to himself about BloodWolves needing to be wiped out of existence once and forall.
Veltris laid his beautiful mate ontheir bed and took a step back. He forced his beast down, whowanted to run back to their enemy’s territory and destroy them, buthe knew their pack couldn’t do it alone.
“You need to leave?” Renasked as he rolled his neck and reached for his healing powerswithin him.
“To plan, yes. But that canwait until she’s healed.”
“She’ll still beunconscious after the
