All Chapters of NYC Shifter Tales: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

CUFF LINKED Rami Llewellyn’s blood runs blue. He’s not looking for any complications in his life. But things get red hot real fast for the litigious Lion once he meets his potential mate. When a Pack of Wolves crosses the legal line on what is allowed in his city, Rami hunts for answers. Throw a curvy normal in the mix, and he’s more determined than ever to shut them down. Noemi Donato dreams of buying the bakery where she works from her boss who is soon retiring. But her mother wants her to move back home, away from the dangerous city she loves. All she needs is a reason to stay. Will the sweet, feisty pastry chef take on the sexy shifter? PROLOGUE “Rami! Come! Food and coffee are ready.” Nana’s lightly accented voice rang out from her first-floor apartment in the two-family brownstone where Rami was born. Generation after generation of the Llewellyn family had lived there for almost a hundred years. “Rami!” The woman was relentless. But still, her voic

“Mama, I told you already. I am fine. It’s just a bump on the head,” Noemi poured herself a tall glass of iced sweet tea and sat down at the tiny table in her eat-in kitchen.Every apartment she’d looked at in NYC seemed to be the same size. As in teeny weeny. Still, she loved some of the older homes with their big sandstone brick facades and wrought iron fences. The architecture was so different from back home. Noemi especially loved the ones with the tiny secret gardens out back. She noted several in the neighborhood, and they all called to that special place inside of her that loved to commune with nature.People never expected to feel that way in the city, but it was truly teeming with life. So much energy existed in New York. All of it flowing in and out of the millions of people, animals, and plants. The structures and monuments, heck, even the graffiti, were full of life.It was exciting. Different. New. Interesting. And exactly where she was meant to be. Thoughts of a certai

“Mimi, it’s your Mama. Call me.”Noemi shook her head and deleted the message from her mother. It was the eighth from that day alone.Sigh. There was nothing more relentless than a Southern mama hounding her chick. Noemi scrolled through the rest of the calls quickly, hoping for one particular number to appear on her cell.Alas, Rami hadn’t called. Then again, he’d spent most of that morning with her after they’d made love on her office floor. She’d had to shoo him away so he could catch a nap before his shift later that evening.It was evening now, and he was probably just arriving at work. Of course, he had important business to attend. She shouldn’t feel disappointed, but Noemi could not help it. After the purely phenomenal, bone-melting, soul-searing sex they’d shared, she thought for sure the big man felt as strongly for her as she did for him.It wasn’t like her to get things so wrong. Well, there was Peter. But nothing that had happened between the mild-mannered, aka boring

“So, you’re his mate, huh? And you are a Druid? What’s that? Some kind of Witch.” “Not exactly,” Noemi smiled at the captain, who was already crazy over the woman who brought him three dozen glazed donuts. “Oh, really? Okay, well is it true you want to join the SCNYC?” Captain Luani replied. “Yes, Captain. There is quite a large Druid community in New York, and they need representation. I have been corresponding with the local covens for some time.” “I see,” he mumbled around a bite of donut, okay, more like half the donut. “Cap, you gonna keep questioning my mate or, are you gonna give us your blessing already?” “I don’t know, numb nuts, you gonna take my seat like I asked?” “What does he mean?” Noemi asked, blue eyes sparkling mischievously. “The Primus is moving up to a higher rank on the Council and wants me to represent the Pride. And yes, I will, Captain,” he said nodding at the man who was now grinning from ear to ear. “Rami,” Noemi gasped, “We can work togethe

Konstantin watched her walk in, same as he had for the past three months. She wasn’t like the usual dancers he hired. Didn’t come on to him or any of the staff. Yasmin Malek worked three nights a week at The Stripe Club, that was the name of his exclusive, members-only gentlemen’s club.Konstantin was the boss, the owner, and sole operator of the establishment, but he still made sure he was there for every single one of her shifts. He couldn’t stay away. Had tried to, but to no avail. The woman drew him like a moth to a flame. His Tiger chuffed inside of him, watching the curvy Lioness walk across the smooth, polished floors.The animal inside of him recognized the female as his, but his human half refused to do a thing about it. Fated mates was a myth, or so he’d always thought. A Shifter fairytale told to children same as normals did with Cinderella or the one about the beast and the bibliophile.Her long brown hair was held back in a high ponytail, and same as always, he wondered