Taken by Fate (The Alpha Territories, #1)

by Shannon Mayer

the next shipment was going to the werewolves. The shifters. It was their turn for new girls and boys.

A something I couldn’t define, but I felt it inside of me, whispering that I was closer every day. Whispering that there was someone out there looking for me, as hard as I was looking for them. Fanciful thinking, I know.

Perhaps it was my laugh that turned my luck that day, calling down the wrath of some unknown god by my lack of humility. Because I believed I could outsmart the supernaturals that had claimed our world as their own. Maybe if I’d been more sober, more demure, I wouldn’t have ended up facing my worst nightmare.

I was Dominic Blackthorne, General of the Crown Prince’s army and bastard son to King Stirling.

Her breasts were full and her hips rounded, made for midnight sins that never saw the light of day. Her dark auburn hair was a matted mess precariously held up by a golden pin. Narrowed eyes glittered with a fiery anger that was so clearly alive in her, despite her situation.

If Edmund was a shark, Will was a Labrador, splashing around in the water, looking for the next stick to retrieve, blissfully unaware that an apex predator lurked below the surface, waiting for its chance to strike.

“Because I believe I know who, and more importantly . . .what you really are.”

“You admit to wanting to kill me? Even as you get a hard on?”

“Suck it up, stop your crying and give as good as you get. They've already shown their colors, so believe them. Next time, don't wait for them to strike first.”

“Sometimes, it is the one piece everyone would claim as . . .useless . . .that can become the most important piece of all.”

“Trouble rarely shows itself when we have all the time in the world for it.”

“That is because we cannot be friends.” He shrugged. “I watched ‘The Fox and the Hound’ with my niece, just last week. I do believe that is you and I.” I laughed. “You would relate our childhood friendship with a Disney movie?”