All Chapters of NYC Shifter Tales: Alpha Shifters, Curvy Mates, and Fated Love in the City: Chapter 21 - Chapter 29

Eduardo ran a hand over his face and heaved a sigh. His Grizzly Bear paced inside of him, the animal desperate for an outlet. Snow was falling outside, December in the city as unpredictable as ever, but that was global warming for you. Though, to Eddie, it made zero fucking sense. If it was a warming, why the snow?“Eduardo? Are you with us? I’d like to talk about the fire that took out the back alley exit last night,” Konstantin, his boss and best friend, asked and Eddie nodded before the male Tiger continued with the meeting.Sure. He was with them. Technically.The fire had done minimal damage, and lucky for them, some guys from the local Shifter run fire station had been passing by and nipped it in the bud before it could get out of hand. Those bastards would be drinking at the club for free for the foreseeable future.The Stripe Club was changing its focus, updating its theme, and getting an all-out overhaul. All things Eduardo was on board with. Yasmin, Konstantin’s very preg

Eduardo was so tense, he was liable to jump right out of his skin. Looking at Alina and the picture she made in her nude leotard and slippers had damn near stopped his heart. Such a beauty. Too fucking beautiful for him.I don’t deserve her.Her eyes cut into him, sharp and bright with intelligence. They gleamed like the palest of blue diamonds, slicing him with their laser like focus. She was poised and elegant, her cat-like grace prominent in her posture. Damn. Did she know she could bring him to his knees with barely a glance?Grrrr.He closed his eyes to settle his beast. The Bruin inside him wanted to claim her more than he wanted his next breath. It was a difficult battle, the Bear nearly out of control with longing, but Eddie’s human side was master here.She was an angel, and he was so far from perfect. He just had to look at himself to see it. His skin was marred by countless battles. Both beast and human skins marked up like he’d seen a thousand wars. Sometimes, he felt

Eddie paced outside Konstantin’s office. He could not believe what he’d done last night. Fucking Bear. He closed his eyes, aware that he still smelled her delicious orange cinnamon fragrance clinging to his skin.Sweet, sexy Tigress.Fuck. Fuck. FUCK.He’d crept out of the guest house sometime before dawn. Alina had been softly asleep, her pretty body bruised from his rough handling of her. Shit. That was why he was no good for her. Couldn’t she see that?His Bear chuffed and growled inside of him, but he shut the beast down. It was hard, though, knowing his neck bore her bite. The female did not know what she was doing, claiming a monster like him.The blood on his hands was too much to wash clean. She just did not understand, a monster like him was never going to change. His Bear was a fucking brute. The violence deeply ingrained in him. Hell, maybe it was part of his chemical makeup. What the fuck did he know? It didn’t matter, anyway. Konstantin was going to kill him the secon

When Eduardo had arrived back at the Petrov complex with Konstantin, he almost lost his fucking mind. Alina was not there. His military training was the only reason he did not break down into a full blown panic.Good thing, too. Because within seconds of that discovery, he received another. His phone rang and Jose, one of his team, called him to say Rosie, a dancer at the club, had just come to him with a problem.Marcella and Alina had gone outside during a break and had not returned to the club to finish rehearsals for the grand re-opening of the newly renovated wing of The Strip Club.“What the fuck do you mean, Jose? Where is she?”“Well, boss, we performed a search and found Marcella in the alley behind the club. She’s been shot, but she’s still alive. Barely,” the man informed him.“Where are you now? I need you to get the fucking surveillance feed to me, Jose,” he growled, but the man was still talking.“I am sending it now, boss, and I am with Marcella at the Shifter clin

Eddie carried Alina into the guest house, almost scared to kiss her. The second he got his mouth on her, he knew the tight leash he had on his control would slip.“Eddie,” she whispered, her tear-streaked face gazing at him with so much love he damn near tripped.“Alina,” he replied, cupping a hand behind her neck and tugging her face to his.“Are you sure?” she asked.“I have never been more sure of anything in my life. I want you, mate. Need you. Love you so fucking much it hurts.”Then he was kissing her, and all rational thought left his brain, Eddie’s Bear chuffed and pawed the ground in that metaphysical plane where he waited. The beast delighted he was finally going to claim the sexy little Tigress.Wind howled outside, and fat flurries fell, hitting the skylight above the bed as Eduardo slowly unwrapped his mate. Her skin shone like ivory and his breath caught in his throat at her beauty.“I have never seen anything like you, mi fiera,” he whispered reverently, almost af