Pride

By Brynn Paulin

She's there to interview them.

 

They're there to claim her.

 

Rock stars, Kaz and Myan know Hanna is their mate. They've spent the last year maneuvering her into their grasp, and she's arrived just in time for the Harvest moon, the time when the lion shifters in their pride must claim their mates.

 

The full moon is coming, and by sunrise, she'll be theirs. Forever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Supernova Indie Publishing Services LLC
• Release date: Apr 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781623443375

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Pride

By Brynn Paulin

Supernova Indie Publishing Services, LLC

www.supernovaindie.com

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Pride

by

Brynn Paulin

She’s there to interview them.

They’re there to claim her.

Rock stars, Kaz and Myan know Hanna is their mate. They’ve spent the last year maneuvering her into their grasp, and she’s arrived just in time for the Harvest moon, the time when the lion shifters in their pride must claim their mates.

The full moon is coming, and by sunrise, she’ll be theirs. Forever.

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© 2019, Brynn Paulin

Pride

Cover Art by Supernova Indie Publishing Services, LLC

Formatting by Supernova Indie Publishing Services, LLC

Electronic Format ISBN: 978-1-62344-337-5

Published by: Supernova Indie Publishing Services, LLC

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and occurrences are a product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, places or occurrences, is purely coincidental.

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Dedication

Haven, gurrrrrrrrl, I know you wanted a rocker. How about two?

Chapter One

Hanna Herst stood in the shadows of the near empty auditorium and watched two of the most desirable men in the world perform their music. She wasn’t the one declaring that, though she agreed it was true. Tabloids were in accord on this—the front men of Harvest were H.O.T. Hot.

The area just in front of the stage was teeming with reporters and photographers vying for their chance at a bite out of the duo and their new look for this tour. Their once long, golden blond hair was closely shorn and their lean bodies were even more ripped than the last time they’d publicly appeared. Frankly, the pair made her mouth water and the rest of her warm and melty, though she preferred them with the longer locks.

Kazimir and Demyan Pycnahvich Ruslan were the American-born children of two Russian immigrants. Kaz and Myan. They were exotic and had captured the avid adoration of fans since they’d entered the scene some eight years ago. Yet, for all the fascination, no one really knew much about them—not more than they allowed. Hence, the circus up front. Everyone wanted a piece of the twin gods.

Was she the only one who noticed they pandered to the press, giving them boatloads of face time but nothing substantial? No one really knew about the twins’ lives. And she wanted to know. She wanted inside, because she was confident this pair had something to do with her sister’s disappearance. At very least, she was sure they knew something.

Hanna had been on the fast track up the media food chain when Melanie had disappeared. Mel had worked as one of Harvest’s roadies. Every communication had been rife with Kaz this or Myan that or gushing about whatever big city the tour was playing. Then suddenly last year, they’d all stopped. As far as Hanna could tell, Mel had disappeared somewhere between St. Louis and Des Moines. Inquiries had turned up nothing. The band claimed Mel had just left the tour. Hanna didn’t believe it. Even more, she couldn’t believe that the police had closed the case. It was untenable! A woman—her sister—was missing and no one seemed to care!

Determined to find out what had happened to Mel, Hanna had stepped away from her job as a political journalist and, stunning everyone, commenced entertainment reporting. It had taken her too long, but finally, fate had positioned her to get some answers.

Her magazine had gotten her a coup. She would be allowed to travel with Harvest for the next week. They were letting her inside the fold, and she’d get to see what they hid from the rest of the world. She wouldn’t just be behind the scenes of the band. She’d actually travel with Kaz and Myan.

Despite herself, the opportunity excited her. The reporter inside her wanted to see how they lived even if she didn’t like them—but she did grudgingly like them. They made her hot even when her brain screamed no. This wasn’t right. They knew something. She wanted to know their secrets for Mel’s sake and for the sake of her sidetracked career. This would be the exposé of this generation—the fall of these fake idols. Her hormones be damned.

* * * *

She’s here, Kaz muttered under his breath to his brother as they headed backstage, the rest of their band following them while the group’s publicist handled the media circus.

It’s about time. Took her long enough, Myan replied.

You think it’s been easy for her to maneuver into this position? Subterfuge takes planning. Kaz grinned and looked toward Hanna. The shadows backstage hid him from her, while his feline sight cut through the darkness giving him a clear view of her. Notebook in hand, she was staring in his direction while chewing on the end of her pen. Thinking about her article or how to pin a nonexistent crime on them? A good question.

He knew she was worried about her sister, but if she’d come directly to them, her fears and all this hassle could have been avoided.

Kaz took a deep breath. Even through the scents of all the others in the building, he could smell her…his mate. He glanced at his brother. Their mate. He and Myan had been waiting for her since they’d matured. When they’d met her sister, Melanie, they’d known she somehow knew their destined partner…and then a letter from Hanna had arrived.

He’d nearly lost control and shifted in front of everyone. The other band members were part of his pride, but the crew…not so much. They would have been pretty freaked out to see a full-grown, three-hundred pound African lion in their midst. Then Myan would have felt the need to shift