Secured Heart: Timberon Cat, #1

By Yvette Hines

When an unexpected woman from Kal's past enters a high profile party his team is working, his raw, feral feelings for her may jeopardize the growing success of his business. Lana is not just any woman. She’s the one that got away.

Lana doesn’t have time to deal with a jealous and prideful Amofeli male. That’s especially true for Kal, a past friend, who was supposed to be there years ago when she needed him. Right now she has enough men vying for her attention in one way or another. When it comes to Kal, her mind knows it is best to keep him at a distance, but her heart aches for the one that stole it a lifetime ago.

Foolish youthful mayhem may have caused Kal to make rash and wrong decisions where Lana was concerned. However, this time he plans to claim his mate and secure her heart forever.

Book 1 of Timberon Cat series. It was originally at ARe in there One Bite contest in 2010 at 3k length. It has now been modified and expanded to meet the general short story length of the others in the series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Romance Management, Inc.
• Release date: Oct 2, 2015
• ISBN: 9781519929747

Yvette Hines

USA Today Bestselling Author, Emma Award winning "Author of the Year" 2013. I’m just Yvette Hines. An erotica author who loves pleasurable hours between the sheets, whether it is a blended tale of interracial lovers, the clandestine bite and wicked passion of a paranormal lover or the sting of a commanding whip against tender flesh. Even better, make my day and toss in two gorgeously decadent men who only want to pleasure their woman. Oooh, yeah, now we’re talking. I write erotica because I love it. I’m a Scorpio, so I’m sensual by nature and that just makes me naughty. I’ve been penning erotic tales, on the hedonistic side of romance genre, since 2007. I’m married to my best friend. A guy who makes me laugh ‘til I can’t breathe. A man who steals my breath every time he walks into a room. I enjoy long walks on the beach... Well, I do, but really I love meeting readers, going to conferences, writing with my fellow authors in a coffee shop, attending BDSM events and Christmas. What do I write? Short and Sexy, Sensual Erotica. Yup, that’s me, SASSE Yvette Hines.

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Secured Heart

Yvette Hines

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Secured Heart

Copyright © 2015, Yvette Hines

Cover Artist: Covers by K Designs

Editor: Bernadette Schane

Beta Readers: Lonnie H.

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Author’s Note

Hello Readers. Some of you may recall that Secured Heart was originally in the Just One Bite contest at All Romance eBooks. This story at only 3k at the time, because of contest rules, came in third place among 36 other stories. Well, all rights have been returned to me and I have taken the time to increase this story and modified it significantly. It is now longer and hotter. So, the story that started the Timberon Series is back. Hope you enjoy it and the others in the series, On the Prowl, Rescued Mate, and coming soon, Stalking Nayla.

Best Regards,

Yvette

Chapter One

Strolling around the room one more time to check with his men and ensure everyone was in place and everything was secure before he left, Kal stepped to Dwayne, the man in charge for the evening.

Okay, Dwayne, everything appears to be under control. I’m heading out. Normally, he wouldn’t have come at all with Dwayne leading the team for the night, but this project was a big one. The success of tonight’s event would mean more contracts of this caliber. Tyler, Bridge and Anderson law office was the largest firm in the city. They handled all the high-profile white-collar crimes around the state. Having Mayor Davy present was an extra bonus. The fact that he’d snagged this contract was proof that his company was succeeding in a major way. In the next few weeks, he would be hiring four more security people to add to his team of twelve.

Got it, boss man. Everything will be fine. Dwayne, his good friend and fellow pride member, had left his job as athletics coordinator at a local recreation center to work with him. He was a six-three, dark-skinned black man who was as wide as he was tall.

Patting Dwayne on the shoulder, Kal confirmed, I know you got it all under control. I don’t doubt it for a moment. Glancing around, he whispered, I just came here to show my face.

And what a lovely mug it is. Dwayne’s bantering tone matched Kal’s as he added, A face only relatives and pride members could love.

Chuckling, Kal nodded.

Kal and Dwayne’s families had lived in Albuquerque most of their lives, only five hours from the Amofeli sect in in Timberon. Dwayne’s family members were unattached shifters. For years Kal’s elders had attempted to convince the family to join with Timberon Amofeli pride, but Dwayne’s father had declined. When he and Dwayne went to college his best friend joined the pride.

Well, I’ll see you tomorrow at the offi--

Sorry I’m late, everyone. Burt Tyler, the lead partner who had started the law firm twenty-seven years ago with his father, came in with a petite black woman.

Presently, she was about five-eight in her three-inch heels and her skin was a soft brown with red undertones, like Georgia clay. She was perfection, every feature designed by the Creator to attract and hold a gaze, in its flawless symmetry. Her long ebony hair cascaded down around her shoulders in layers, tempting a man to bury his hands in it.

Kal’s hands itched to do just that as the desire he once believed dormant flared up as hot and scalding as ever. A joyously sweet and erotically intoxicating combination of osmanthus and vanilla rum reached him from across the room.

He watched her smile as she worked the room beside the stout lawyer who was barely an inch taller than her. Her short black dress haltered around her neck, conservatively revealing the swell of her breasts. The garment hugged her slim form and ended mid-thigh, giving the illusion that her toned legs went on and on. Lana