Collared for a Night
By: Susan Arden
Blurb:
All it takes is one mistake to
be marked. One bite, she crosses a line...into forever.
Diana Hambre's body is blazing.
For days this leopardess shifter has spun through a body-searing heat cycle.
Alone. Her senses reel when Shawn Barclay, her boss, walks into her reserved
room at the Downtown Den, a stud club for shifters. He gives Diana a choice:
spend the evening with him, give into his every desire, and she'll find out
what it means to quench her heat-crazed thirst—or try her luck with a stranger,
one of the club bangers.
Shawn hates when his back is against the wall. One sip of Diana’s pheromone-laced scent is enough to force his alpha hand. The tables have turned and it's Diana's back he wants up against a wall or any other surface for that matter.
As the moon rises toward midnight, Shawn and Diana come to understand the difference between sex and bonding. For a night, neither of them resist their primal instincts, blindly giving into carnal desire. Her wild nature fights being subdued and she risks spontaneously shifting without warning.
Now, bearing Shawn's bite marks, she can’t simply walk away from him; not when he has the means to teach her to harness her leopardess nature. Shawn accepts the challenge of training Diana to control her untamed cravings. Employing every method available in and out of the bedroom, he discovers he's on the verge of ensnaring himself in the process.
Warning: Erotic scenes hot enough to peel paint
Shawn hates when his back is against the wall. One sip of Diana’s pheromone-laced scent is enough to force his alpha hand. The tables have turned and it's Diana's back he wants up against a wall or any other surface for that matter.
As the moon rises toward midnight, Shawn and Diana come to understand the difference between sex and bonding. For a night, neither of them resist their primal instincts, blindly giving into carnal desire. Her wild nature fights being subdued and she risks spontaneously shifting without warning.
Now, bearing Shawn's bite marks, she can’t simply walk away from him; not when he has the means to teach her to harness her leopardess nature. Shawn accepts the challenge of training Diana to control her untamed cravings. Employing every method available in and out of the bedroom, he discovers he's on the verge of ensnaring himself in the process.
Warning: Erotic scenes hot enough to peel paint
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She teased and nipped at his
sweet spot, underneath his head, licking and sucking, and pushed past his
dominance.
“Suck me harder, sweetheart.” Shawn’s voice
was an inhuman, hoarse whisper. He stopped tonguing her pussy and held her
head. He fucked her mouth, pumping and thrusting across her lips.
She adored the feel of his cock
in her mouth and did as he instructed. Diana ran her claws across his flesh.
He followed suit, rasping the
tips of his nails over her skin. Shivers broke out from the tiny pain-pleasure
scratches over her skin. His muscles quivered around her. His scent filled her
mouth and head. She could savor him without fear and, at this moment, had to
taste his orgasm. A savage hunger tore into her.
Previously, her mouth had been
a safe spot on her body where an alpha’s semen couldn’t cross her physical
barrier. Yet now, her whole body convulsed and shifted, a sign of error in her
judgment. This man was different. Her leopardess nature pushed outward. She
told herself she must absorb his musky scent and taste if only to recognize his
marking in the world beyond this room. He pulled out of her mouth and her
leopardess mind quaked in frustration, on the edge of claiming her mate.
“No,” she roared. Her pelt
rippled and she shook, flexing feline muscles. Spontaneously she’d let go and
shifted. The experience was more than exhilarating. On all fours, she crouched
next to him on the futon. Her long tail slapped against the wall. Never had
shifting felt this powerful. She licked his face, stared at him from behind
twitching whiskers, and she flicked her tail, snapping his leg.
“Diana, reel in your leopardess
nature. Come back to me.” His whispered command eased her nature.
“Now, sweetheart.” He rubbed his thumb on the
ridge between her eyes, then petted the side of her cheek. She could feel his
essence without responding to the content of his words. Deep within her,
primitive instinct was a force that drove her, and she responded by purring and
rubbing up against him, marking her scent over him.
Shawn’s voice lulled her. She
calmed instantly. Acquiesced. Her animal and human forms flickered.
The scent she released as
leopardess would be near impossible for him to resist. She dropped beside him,
blinking, and lowered her lids. For him, she began the process of shifting
back. She hissed, and then moaned, curling up next to him.
“I’m sorry,” she said, opening
her eyes and contemplating him. This was the first time she had shifted in
front of an alpha male for over a year. Was Shawn taken back at her lack of
control?
Her fur receded, emitting sparks of energy
over the length of her skin, tightening and smoothing into her human form. Her
claws got caught in the futon. She tugged each curved spike free, then focused
and steadied her nature. “I understand if we shift during sex, things will get
away from us.”
About the Author:
"I love to laugh. More
than anything in the world, humor is food for the spirit."
Previously, a teacher in the
field of special education and biology, now Susan pursues her dream of writing
fiction with several releases this year. Crafting sweet and spicy tales, she
writes hot love stories across romance genres including contemporary erotic,
Western, and fantasy/paranormal. She also writes under the name of Susan D.
Taylor. She currently lives in TN along with husband, two cattle dogs, two
crazy cats, a gecko and a corn snake.
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