“How the fuck did you find us so fast?” The general recovered from his shock quick however. “You can’t get away from all of us.”
“Don’t have to. Let her go.”
Cee Cee opened her eyes again but couldn’t sit up because she was strapped to the table.
“No way. You bit her. I’m hoping some of your perverse shifter genes will be in her and we can use them to make super soldiers. There was so much potential in you but you refused any and all tests. Although it will be interesting to see what she turns into as we ran her blood and I see wolf in there.”
He knew it. More rage pulsed at the thought of her being a science experiment. “I’m not a military weapon and neither is she. Let. Her. Go.”
He shook his head. “No. They’ll kill you.”
“Not before I kill you and like all good soldiers, they know they aren’t supposed to risk your life for theirs. So, to keep you alive, they will lower their weapons and release her. Now!”
Two men jumped to do his bidding. The general barked a refusal but they ignored it.
Cee Cee got off the gurney and stood there, unsure of what to do.
From the tall grasses strolled a large group of cheetah. Each one stood before a human, growling and ready to attack. The two young males wove around her, pushing her back away from the danger. The men were all pushed into the large building and the general was the last to go.
Before he released him, Kent put the device he’d pulled off the truck on him. “Run,” he ordered.
Cee Cee and the other cats took off.
Kent secured the door. He didn’t want to do this but the man knew his secret and he wasn’t about to risk his mate’s life further. He shifted and bounded after them. To his sensitive ears, he picked up on the whine of the impending explosion and lunged for her, shifting to human as he took them down, rolling so he landed first, then pushing so she was beneath him.
The area was rocked by the explosion and he could feel the heat from the blast as the wave blew over them. He didn’t move until the world had settled around them. Only then, did he draw back and stare at the woman beneath him.
She blinked and watched him with those amazing green eyes.
He nearly held his breath as he waited for her to say something. Anything.
“I suppose you’re going to tell me you’re the king cheetah from the trap?”
Gods, he loved this woman. Nodding, he lowered his head until their lips were a hairsbreadth apart. “I am.”
“And what’s happening to me?” She moved her gaze to his lips and back up. “They talked about you and what you are a lot.”
“You’re changing into a shifter like me.”
“Will I be a king cheetah? Or a wolf?”
“I’m not sure but you will be beautiful and my mate for the rest of our lives.”
“But my uncle knew.”
He nodded. “He did. For a long time, I had trusted him with my secret. Now, I find he was planning to use me but when you were bit, he figured you would be an easier target.”
“What if he told someone?”
“His secret died with him. If it didn’t, we will face it when the time comes. Together.”
The two young males showed back up, butted their heads against both of them and lay down a distance away.
“Family.”
Pride filled him at her word. He claimed her mouth, allowing their souls to reunite and become one, once more. He didn’t care at all what she would shift into, wolf or cheetah, she was his and he, hers. This was the beginning of the rest of their lives.
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Additional books by Aliyah Burke:
Sensual Romance Publishing
If You Dare
Holiday Surprise: Unwrapped
His Purrfect Mate
Raw Exposure
A Knight’s Vow
Lion of Midnight
Megalodon Team
Kincade’s Rose
Harrier’s Healer
Connelly’s Flame
Vittano’s Willow
Dimitri’s Moon
O’Shea’s Love
Chayton’s Tempest
Haikon
A Love for Lera
Rakes & Rogues
What the Earl Desires
Her Reluctant Viscount
Her Pirate Rogue
Cottonwood Falls
Relentless
Fracture
Ravish
Spark
Savor
Intensity
Inferno
Snake’s Salvation
Operation Ball N’ Chain (Cottonwood Falls short in Labor of Love anthology)
Born to Fly
Landing in Love
You Save Me
Wild As The Wind
Zulu Spectre
Hearth, Holly, & Honor (3 in 1)
It Could Happen Again
Tungsten Protective Services
Down Range
All In (Kindleworlds Hot SEALs/Tungsten Protective Services crossover novella)
Twisted E-Publsihing
Under the Mask
Graham Family
Justice Is Always Ready
And We’ve Come Full Circle
Denim & Spurs
With This Ring
Dream Lover
You Don’t Know Jack
Maddox Family
The Detective’s Lover
Quad Series
A Little Taste of Home
Too Dangerous To Love
Someday My Prince Good Ol’ Boy Will Come
Black Queen
Preconception
Seducing Damian
Through the Fire
Serial
Keeper of the Stars Pt. 1
Keeper of the Stars Pt. 2
Keeper of the Stars Pt. 3
Keeper of the Stars Pt. 4
Keeper of the Stars Pt. 5
Astral Guardians
Chasing the Storm
Highlands at Dawn
Fields of Thunder
Branded by Frost
Driven by Night
Moon of Fire
Interludes
Temporary Home
Alone with You
Till We Ain’t Strangers Anymore
In Aeternum
Casanova in Training
Harbour of Refuge
Protected by Shadows
Polar Opposites
Code of Honour
A Marriage of Convenience
The Lieutenant’s Ex-Wife
A Man Like No Other
When Stars Collide
Theta Corps
Restitution
Contrition
Vindication
The Edge
Called Home to The Edge
Straying to The Edge
Returning to The Edge
Cuffed at The Edge
Entangled
Code Name: Papa
Kindleworld
Delay of Game (Game of Love Kindleworld series)
The Wedding Snafu (Four Weddings & A Fiasco Kindleworld series)
Watching You (Lone Star Burn Kindleworld series)
Icy Dare (Dare to Love Kindleworld series)
Daring the Hard Man (Dare to Love Kindleworld series
All In (Hot SEALs/Tungsten Protective Services Kindleworld series crossover)
Fire Devil (Dallas Fire & Rescue Kindleworld series)
Embers of Lust (Dallas Fire & Rescue Kindleworld series)
His Rysk to Take (Omega Team Kindleworld series)
The Billionaire’s Code (Billionaire Universe Kindleworld series)
His Pryze to Claim (Omega Team Kindleworld series)
Autumn Frost (Brotherhood Protectors Kindleworld series)
Standalone
Dutch & Lobo (in In the Trenches collection)
On the High Seas (in What White Boyz Desire collection)
Love Under the Endless African Sky
Co-written with Taige Crenshaw
Unbreakable Bonds
Kemet Uncovered:
Talios
Devi
Linc
Saffron
Taber
Ashia
Co-written with McKenna Jeffries
McKingley:
All the Wright Moves
The Best Thing Yet
Risky Pleasures
Pure Harmony
Irresistible Forces
Seductions Dance
Other Books in the Sassy Ever After series by Milly Taiden
Book 1: Scent of a Mate
Book 2: A Mate’s Bite
Book 3: Unexpectedly Mated
Book 3.7: A Sassy Wedding
Book 4: The Mate Challenge
Book 4.3: Sassy in Diapers
Book 5: Fighting for Her Mate
Book 6: A Fang in the Sass
Here’s a link where you can find the rest of the kindle world books in this series by numerous other authors.
Milly Taiden’s Sassy Ever After Kindle World
I hope you enjoy these stories!
Happy Reading!!