The Queen's Strength
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By the time Riker secures a meeting with the hawk shifters, the situation between his human, Val, and the rest of his pride has not much improved. Riker expects Val to make some concessions for shifters as he does with humans, and Val is hesitant when it comes to the one he wants most: having sex out in the open. She demurs, but Riker makes it clear it won’t work for long.
Then he shows up at her human workplace, shirtless and sexy and exuding so much confidence that Val nearly lets the barbell drop on her client. Riker is testing her confidence, testing her limits ... and she doesn’t know much longer she can hold out.
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The Queen's Strength - Deidre Huesmann
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Copyright© 2018 Deidre Huesmann
ISBN: 978-1-77339-742-9
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Editor: Audrey Bobak
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This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and places are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE QUEEN’S STRENGTH
Blood Bonded, 2
Deidre Huesmann
Copyright © 2018
Chapter One
Val had always been one to wake quick and early, even before she started spending nights with her new boyfriend. Before the sun would peek into her cramped studio apartment, she’d be up and in her jogging clothes, slipping the key into a hidden pocket in the waistband of her shorts. She loved breaking into the cool morning air, how dew clung to her face and gave way to sweat as she ran. The sweet smell of grass refreshed by the night’s precipitation.
Early mornings were her favorite for a run: few cars, fewer people. Pleasant smells, better sounds, softer than a dream. Quiet. Calming.
If only mornings with Riker were so nice.
She lay naked on a bed of animal furs, cloaked in the tepid warmth of a mid-autumn morning. Her eyes were open the barest sliver, her breathing even. The slamming of her heart against her ribs sent pulses through her eardrums—unwanted fear. Others occupied the den as well … though they were shifters, unlike her, and most slept in their lion or lioness form.
Riker didn’t. She felt his warm presence at her back, his chest expanding in even rhythm, one arm slung casually yet protectively over her waist. As much as she wanted to cuddle back into him, she didn’t dare move. Not yet.
It had been almost three months since she and Riker had blood bonded, a ritual where shifters allowed their blood to mingle with someone whose soul sang to them. It had been an ethereal experience, more so because Val was the first known human to blood bond with a shifter. An alpha, even. The alpha, the leader of the lions, who perched comfortably at the top of the food chain.
As a result of their bond, Riker’s pride—the lions, not his ego, though the double entendre never failed to amuse her—was less than enthused. In fact, Val still remembered her fight with them in stark clarity, to the point her jaw sometimes ached where one of the shifters had punched her.
Though only one shifter had picked petty fights since, Val couldn’t rest peacefully. She loathed that summer was over, forcing the shifters to share the den. They seemed to hate it just as much as she did. All of them slumbered near the entrance, as