Total pages in book: 36
Estimated words: 33919 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 170(@200wpm)___ 136(@250wpm)___ 113(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 33919 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 170(@200wpm)___ 136(@250wpm)___ 113(@300wpm)
Shadow wasn’t ready to end things with her. From the moment he first saw the human, he knew he wanted her. What he didn’t expect was to fall hard and fast. But she’s no wolf. She can never be his mate. Then why can't be bear the thought of losing her?
His mate was supposed to be another wolf. But Lisa did something to him, and now he cannot stop thinking about her. He has to do something to win her back, to gain back her trust. When he finds out she is pregnant with his child, he knows this is the only chance he is going to get to make things right.
Lisa never intends to forgive Shadow. Being around him, day after day, it gets harder to keep him at arm’s length. And the truth is, does she really want to? What harm is there in forgiving?
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Chapter One
“Shadow Storm is here.”
Lisa looked toward the main door of the coffee shop, and sure enough, there was Shadow himself—over six feet of him—filling the entire doorway. She didn’t even need to look around to know men and women admired him. They all wanted a piece of him.
She glanced over toward Adele who’d given her the heads-up that her ex had entered the store. Not that anyone would have known they were ever a couple. They were rarely ever seen together. In the beginning, she had figured it was because he was getting used to dating a human, but then, much to her embarrassment, it was another reason.
They’d been dating for nearly a year. He’d been flirting with her every time he came into the coffee shop, and she’d always rejected his advances. She never once believed a single word he said about how beautiful and smart she was, and that she made the best coffee. Now, she did take the coffee comments seriously.
At twenty-five years old, she’d been serving coffee for five years. After her parents passed away six years ago, she had sold their family home, packed up and moved to No Wolves Road. This is where she wanted to be.
As a human, her family had moved from place to place, including areas dominated by pack wolves. Lisa wasn’t clear about how they had come to know the existence of wolves, just that her family did. This also meant they were able to find them. She believed it was due to some distant cousin or something like that who ended up married, or became a wolf. Again, very vague, but either way, she knew about the existence of wolves. Some of the packs she’d lived among hadn’t exactly been nice. Some had been downright cruel.
So, No Wolves Road had felt like a sanctuary to her. No wolves resided in this small town, however, they were surrounded by multiple large and small packs, or even lone wolves. None of them lived in the town, and this suited her.
However, as she’d been living here five years, she’d also come to see something she didn’t like. The wolves, as in most of the old packs, used the male and female humans.
Until a few months ago, when an Eloise Richards finally settled down with one Beau Alpha, no other wolf had taken the lurch and mated to one of them.
They were humans, lesser species. The only good quality they seemed to possess was the ability to serve and to fuck. She hated this, and she vowed to never date one of them.
That had technically lasted four and a half years, until six months ago. She finally gave in and dated Shadow. He’d been sweet, kind, and very sincere. She should have known it was all a façade. They’d dated for six months, and during that time, she had fallen madly in love with him, given him her virginity, and in her head, saw a future together. Then, one cruel night, he didn’t know she was heading to the bar to see him. That was when she heard him talk about her.
“Fuck, no, I’m not settling down with her. She’s a piece of pussy, that’s all. Something to have fun with and not think about the future. I’d never mate to a human. Please, we all know what they’re good for.”
There had been some rude comments about her size, and some men had wondered how he could enjoy screwing such a woman.
All Lisa remembered was being so heartbroken. She’d never been a woman to cause scenes, and rather than see them laughing at her, she’d left. She never called Shadow back. When he came knocking on her door to see her, she literally didn’t move, so he didn’t sense she was home. Until he left, assuming she wasn’t home, she stayed perfectly still.
Avoiding his calls, not answering the door, it was only a matter of time before he ended up at the coffee shop, and she finally confronted him two weeks ago. Since then, he hadn’t been in the coffee shop. To some women, he wasn’t worth her tears or her time, but she was still struggling to get over him.
“Do you want me to handle him?” Adele asked.
The other woman was the same age as her, only she was smart. Adele didn’t flirt, she didn’t steal glances at anyone. She stayed perfectly neutral, not giving any wolf the time of day. Now that she thought about it, Adele didn’t flirt with any human or wolf.
She was tempted to let Adele deal with everything related to Shadow, but Lisa didn’t want to feel this way. No Wolves Road was a small town, and she wasn’t leaving it because she couldn’t handle one guy. Shadow was one single guy. A cruel one, but also just a wolf, and she would get over him soon enough. He’d taken her virginity and said some of the sweetest things to her, but it didn’t really matter.