Date Night

By Emma Holly

Olivia Forster never dreamed she’d serve as queen of an enchanted city beneath the sea—something her three sexy husbands know. Though she adores her shapeshifting mates, she’s shy by nature, and they can tell the strain of always being “on” is beginning to wear on her. Sneaking away from their responsibilities won’t be easy, but come hell or high water, they’ll treat their cherished bride to a date night she won’t forget!

A short companion story to Hidden Depths

• Language: English
• Publisher: Emma Holly
• Release date: Oct 10, 2011
• ISBN: 9780983540281

Emma Holly

Emma Holly is the award winning, USA Today bestselling author of more than forty romantic books featuring billionaires, genies, faeries and just plain extraordinary folks. She loves the hot stuff, both to read and to write!

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Date Night

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This story is a work of fiction and should be treated as such. It includes sexually explicit content which is only appropriate for adults—and not every adult at that. Those who are offended by more adventurous depictions of sexuality or frank language possibly shouldn’t read it. Literary license has been taken in this book. It is not intended to be a sexual manual. Any resemblance to actual places, events, or persons living or dead is either fictitious or coincidental. That said, the author hopes you enjoy this tale!

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Table of Contents

Title Page

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Date Night

HIDDEN CRIMES: Chapter One

About the Author

Other Titles by Emma Holly

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Olivia Forster never dreamed she’d serve as queen of an enchanted city beneath the sea—something her three sexy husbands know. Though she adores her shapeshifting mates, she’s shy by nature, and they can tell the strain of always being on is beginning to wear on her. Sneaking away from their responsibilities won’t be easy, but come hell or high water, they’ll treat their cherished bride to a date night she won’t forget!

Date Night is a companion story to Hidden Depths.

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Date Night

Olivia Forster, Queen of Oceana’s wereseals, eyed the blue velvet gown like a mortal enemy.

It wasn’t her enemy, of course. It was simply a dress: a very nice, very expensive dress draped on a fancy padded hanger. Thanks to the royal tailors, it fit her like a dream. Even if she hadn’t lost her baby weight from the triplets, those geniuses with the needle would have made sure it flattered her. The spacious walk-in closet in which she stood in her underwear also held no dangers—unless you were terrified of silk-wool carpet and custom-fitted drawers. Because she shared the space with her three husbands, the closet was bigger than her bedroom back when she lived in Long Island. The size wasn’t an indulgence. Her husbands had as many formal outfits as she did.

They also liked wearing them better.

As if to prove it, her most royal husband, aka His Majesty King Anso the First, stepped into the room with her.

That gown isn’t going to put itself on, he teased.

Minus the jacket, he was already in his tuxedo: a tall, broad-shouldered, glorious hunk of a shapeshifter. Because he knew how she was about dressing up, his beautiful sapphire eyes twinkled.

It’s floor length, she said. And the bodice is corset style.

That explains why you don’t like it, not why I should disapprove.

Ha ha, she said, unable to keep a hint of glumness from her tone.

It goes with your eyes, he cajoled, which was a joke among the four of them.

A year and a half ago, Olivia and her first husband James had become Anso and his fellow wereseal Ty’s bloodmates. What had started out as a heat-driven abduction on a deserted beach had become an extraordinarily deep relationship. Consummating a blood bond was the highest form of marriage for Oceanans, combining the concept of soulmates with genetic compatibility. Though the four-way mating hadn’t turned Olivia or James into wereseals, they had experienced changes. They could breathe underwater and were stronger and healthier. Their life expectancy was as long as any shapeshifter’s. Their libidos were heightened, so it was handy that there were four of them. Olivia and James gained a smidge more intuition than they’d had as humans, making them feel more at home among Oceana’s semi-to-very magical citizens. Olivia’s triplets each had a different father, which would have been a trick to pull off if she’d still been a mundane.

The primary sign that these things might happen had been a change in their eye color. Her and James’s irises were now the same drowning blue as Anso’s, with a touch of Ty’s bright yellow ringing their pupils. Olivia loved this evidence that they all were linked. The four of them finding each other had been the luckiest day of their lives.

The only drawback—to Olivia’s mind anyway—was that Anso was royalty.

Don’t be a grump, she ordered her reflection. Your life is amazing, and it’s only a damn dinner. The third damn state dinner in a week. Her babies were going to forget her name.

Her babies would have set up a wail at the way she frowned in the full-length mirror.

Let me help, Anso said soothingly. He slipped the