Griffen's Mate (Armageddon Mates Book 5)

By Hazel Gower

Can the destroyer of worlds change her path?

Griffen has found his mate, but Pet isn’t what anyone expected. He found her near death and nursed her back to health. The pack doesn’t approve of their Omega’s mate. Griffen hopes, given a chance, his pack will fall for Pet just as he’s beginning to.

Pet had been a prisoner all her life, forced to use her visions to aid the demons in their fight to conquer Earth. Thanks to Griffen and his family she’s finally free, and she’s willing to give up her seer abilities to live a new life. The problem is no one but her mate is happy that she’s become part of the pack. Pet just wants to live her life, make friends, and have a family. The question is will she be accepted in Griffen’s pack and get everything she yearns for?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hazel Gower
• Release date: Feb 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005273569

Hazel Gower

I'm a mother of four amazing children. I started writing down my story ideas in high school, and never really stopped. Writing, I have to say, is my salvation. After I've gotten all the kids in bed and have cleaned up, I sit at my computer or sometimes a notebook with a pencil and relax, write, and escape.I love to hear from any of my readers, so feel free to send me an email and like me on Facebook.

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Can the destroyer of worlds change her path?

Griffen has found his mate, but Pet isn’t what anyone expected. He found her near death and nursed her back to health. The pack doesn’t approve of their Omega’s mate. Griffen hopes, given a chance, his pack will fall for Pet just as he’s beginning to.

Pet had been a prisoner all her life, forced to use her visions to aid the demons in their fight to conquer Earth. Thanks to Griffen and his family she’s finally free, and she’s willing to give up her seer abilities to live a new life. The problem is no one but her mate is happy that she’s become part of the pack. Pet just wants to live her life, make friends, and have a family. The question is will she be accepted in Griffen’s pack and get everything she yearns for?

Content Warning: This book contains sexy shapeshifters fighting demons to save the world.

Copyright © 2022 Hazel Gower

Griffen’s Mate – Armageddon Mates book 5, by Hazel Gower

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual events, locales, or persons living or dead, are coincidental.

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MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR

THIS BOOK IS set in Australia. In Australia the legal age to drink, vote, and get married is eighteen. The characters speak Australian English, so if you see the word ‘arse’ instead of ‘ass’ it is because that’s how we say it in Australia where the book is set. If you find a word you haven’t heard before, look it up or message me I’d be happy to talk to you.

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy my book.

Hazel Gower

Dedication

To my family, thanks for all the support.

Prologue

The forest was vast, a never-ending sea of greens and browns. The water was a dark blue and only took up thirty percent of the world. The people of Enewu lived peacefully with their fellow species that occupied their world. The Enewu people were one with the forest, and when it started whispering the pain it was suffering at a new entity in their world the Enewu people consulted their seer. The seer told them their time was coming to an end. That beings called demons were breaking into their world and taking over it. She said some of them would fight, but in the end, it would be no use. The elders were shocked at the news and reluctant to believe it, but when the demons started being seen they knew the seer told only truths.

The seer became more valued than ever before, but when she told them that the foretold seer that had been prophesized for centuries would now become the destroyer of worlds, and not the savior she had been foretold to be, the once peaceful Enewu fought among themselves about what they should do. Most lost touch with the world around them and they split off into their own groups. The demons slowly destroyed the world. The Enewu people started disappearing and blamed each other. Wars begun between the groups until it became hard not to notice their dwindling numbers and what the demons had done to the Enewu. The nature and peace-loving Enewu came out and helped band together the last of their people.

They knew what had to be done. The Enewu’s time was at an end, but they could save other worlds. They could not let the destroyer of worlds be born. The cull began, but one woman hid away, keeping her pregnancy a secret, and when she was captured by the demons she brought them what they had been searching for from the start, and what the Enewu had been trying to stop…The Destroyer of Worlds.

Chapter 1

Pet

A little over a month ago

Hope. Today it was bright. Pet knew as soon as she was shaken awake that today was a day for change, and now she stared gleefully at the people that would change the world, and not just their own. She had struggled with all the different ways fate could make of now and had hoped outcome two and five didn’t happen. Three and one were outcomes that would be okay, just not for her. She wanted number four. If fate granted her number four, she would have a chance, and Faith would fulfill her destiny. If the number four outcome came to pass, the people around her and their family and friends would have the means to save not just their world but many others. But Pet knew number four would be a risk. It would change a lot, and not just for her, but for Faith and for the man of Pet’s dreams—the man who was her mate.

Everything was jumbled though, because her visions hadn’t turned out how they should have so far—she didn’t have the power that Faith did. Pet wasn’t supposed to have met one of the people before her, the one called Sandra, today…if her visions were what she went by. Ava had been who the vision had shown in number four, no one else, no Sandra. What had happened to change her visions so drastically?

Pet jumped up and down in excitement when she realized that the demons had changed fate. She grinned at Ava. This was good. This meant that visions one, two, three, and five wouldn’t happen. It could also mean she may not get to meet her mate.

An intense vision came upon her, and Pet knew she would be uncommunicative for a moment or two until she saw what she needed to. When she came out of the vision hope and happiness like nothing Pet had ever felt before flowed through her, and she prayed to fate that what she saw came true.

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Present day

Pet wrung the end of her dress. The quality fabric felt strange. She didn’t think she’d ever get used to it. It was smooth and so warm against her heated skin, things a month ago she’d never felt. It was all new to her. Well, she’d ‘seen’ it all before, but never had the privilege to experience or feel anything firsthand. She wiggled her toes and they sank further into the hot sand. She listened as her new friend Remy married her mate.

Today was the first day she’d been outside for longer than an hour. It was a day to celebrate firsts, and she was having many, like wearing the pretty dress and a bra. Pet would admit she wasn’t that fond of the bra. She was happier without it, but her other friends had said the dress needed a bra. The bra she wore matched the panties. All new. So many new things to get used to. She’d started wearing panties when she was rescued from the demons. They felt good against her skin. They were extra protection. It was nice to have any kind of extra protection. She’d never been safe with the demons.

She shivered at just the thought of her old life. It had her shaking, feeling like she was going to vomit, and becoming terrified. She closed her eyes for a moment to focus on staying in the same skin color and not fading into the background. When she became a chameleon, the demons always punished her worse. She would kill herself if she ever ended up back in the hands of her torturers.

Large hands came to still her fidgeting ones, and her mate Griffen settled against her back, wrapping her in a safe haven. She opened her eyes and sighed with contentment. Griffen was her dream come true. A vision she never believed would come to pass. She didn’t deserve him. Not with all the chaos, destruction, and death she’d caused.

His head came down and his breath feathered over her ear, a body part she’d made sure had stayed hidden, and she’d made it known that she hated anything near them because it tingled. Her ears were the only major tell she wasn’t human, and they were highly sensitive. Her other traits she could hide.

They’re almost done. Hold on a moment or two more, little one, and we can leave.

She gave her head a slight shake and turned into him and whispered, I don’t want to leave. Now that you’re with me, I’m safe.

His lips against her head had a soothing warmth settling over her. I’m glad you feel safe with me, but this is the first time you’ve been out around this many people. I don’t want to overtax you.

Spinning in his embrace, Pet rested her head on his chest, listening to the beat of his heart. It was fast becoming her favorite sound. I’m having fun out here. I know you’re worried. I can feel the tension flowing through you, but you have to let me out some time, and this right now is probably the safest.

His forehead came down to rest on hers. "I can feel the pack’s hatred beating down on me. They know nothing of you. Most haven’t even met you. How do they know if you had anything to do with what happened to their loved