Mating Games
MATING GAMES
Delta Wolf 2
Stormy Glenn and Joyee Flynn
MENAGE AMOUR
Siren Publishing, Inc.
www.SirenPublishing.com
ABOUT THE E-BOOK YOU HAVE PURCHASED:
Your non-refundable purchase of this e-book allows you to only ONE LEGAL copy for your own personal reading on your own personal computer or device.
You do not have
resell or distribution rights without the prior written
permission of both the publisher and the copyright
owner of this book.
This book cannot be copied in any format, sold, or otherwise transferred from your computer to another through upload to a file sharing peer to peer program, for free or for a fee, or as a prize in any contest.
Such action is illegal and in violation of the U.S. Copyright Law. Distribution of this e-book, in whole or in part, online, offline, in print or in any way or any other method currently known or yet to be invented, is forbidden. If you do not want this book anymore, you must delete it from your computer.
WARNING: The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to 5
years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000."
If you find a SirenBookStrand e-book being sold or shared illegally, please let us know at
A SIREN PUBLISHING BOOK
IMPRINT: Ménage Amour
MATING GAMES
Copyright © 2010 by Stormy Glenn and Joyee Flynn
E-book ISBN: 1-60601-865-5
First E-book Publication: June 2010
Cover design by Jinger Heaston
All cover art and logo copyright © 2010 by Siren Publishing, Inc.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED:
This literary work may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic or photographic reproduction, in whole or in part, without express written permission.
All characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is strictly coincidental.
PUBLISHER
Siren Publishing, Inc.
www.SirenPublishing.com
Letter to Readers
Dear Readers,
If you have purchased this copy of
Mating Games
by Stormy Glenn and Joyee Flynn from BookStrand.com or its official distributors, thank you. Also, thank you for not sharing your copy of this book.
Regarding E-book Piracy
This book is copyrighted intellectual property. No other individual or group has resale rights, auction rights, membership rights, sharing rights, or any kind of rights to sell or to give away a copy of this book.
The author and the publisher work very hard to bring our paying readers high-quality reading entertainment.
This is Stormy Glenn and Joyee Flynn’s livelihood. It’s fair and simple. Please respect Ms. Glenn and Ms. Flynn’s right to earn a living from their work.
Amanda Hilton, Publisher
www.SirenPublishing.com
www.BookStrand.com
To creativity, imagination, and brainstorming. May the "what if" ideal live forever in our hearts, in our minds, and in our naps.
Joyee: To all the fans of Stormy, who have welcomed me to their group with open arms and tons of interest in my solo work. Makes a woman feel loved!
MATING GAMES
Delta Wolf 2
STORMY GLENN AND JOYEE FLYNN
Copyright © 2010
“Sebastian, you have a message from the council,” Matt yelled from the other room. Even though Sebastian loved his best friend’s little mate like a brother, the man had no concept of the world around him while working.
“I was sleeping, Matt!” Sebastian growled back. “Be there in a minute.” Rolling off the bed, he picked yesterday’s jeans up off the floor and pulled them on.
Walking out to the living room, he grabbed the piece of paper Matt held out to him. The man never even took his eyes off his laptop.
Sebastian wiped the sleep from his eyes before reading it over.
Shit!
The council never gave him a break from being a Delta. Even now, waiting for his house to be built with his best friend, Aiden, and Aiden’s two mates, the council wanted to send him out to investigate a supposedly rogue Alpha. Sebastian moved into their house a few weeks ago when his old Alpha put a hit out on Aiden. Thank god for Aiden’s mate, Zac.
Zac was a Delta, like Sebastian, and assigned to take Aiden out.
But when Zac realized that his prey was his mate, he couldn’t go through with it. After Aiden and Zac talked, filling Zac in about Alpha Issacar, they called Sebastian in. Sebastian contacted the council immediately to report the Alpha's illegal actions. The council had been swift in their decision. The overwhelming evidence against Issacar was somewhat of an embarrassment to the council.
Guess running for their lives, dealing with a crazy Alpha, and
setting up a new pack wasn’t enough to gain a Delta some reprieve
, Sebastian thought, shaking his head.
His new assignment had him heading to the East Coast to check into charges of an Alpha kidnapping humans. What did he want a human for?
Sebastian didn’t have any problems with humans. He didn’t really even know any. But why keep one? What was so special about this human? Sebastian packed up his gear and headed into the living room to fill Matt in. Assured that Matt heard him and wrote down where he was going, he headed out to his car.
Thinking back to when he turned eighteen and learned his role as a Delta, he had thought it wicked. Now at twenty-eight, sometimes it just didn’t seem worth the extra gifts he was born with. Okay, he had to admit it was cool that he had extra forms to change into, the chameleon form being the best. The real name, which no one could really pronounce since Greek wasn’t taught to packs anymore, was αόρατοσ.
It literally meant
to
not be visible
, which made hunting for rogue or feral wolves much easier. Plus, Deltas were always the biggest wolves of the pack. At six-five and two hundred forty-five pounds, Sebastian knew he towered over others in the pack.
With his body having almost no fat, he figured he was a little vain, always making sure he had a nice tan. He knew he would never be called pretty, even with his moss green eyes, but some of the females of the pack described him as ruggedly handsome.
That always made him chuckle. Too bad he never had any interest in breasts. He’d known he was gay since he was fifteen. People teased him that he had hair like a girl, sunlit blond hair that he usually tied up but hung down to his ass when he let it flow free. Hey, who did he have to impress? Being a Delta kept him in seclusion, so he did what he liked.
As Sebastian mapped out the best course to North Carolina, his thoughts drifted back to being mated. All he’d ever wanted was for someone to love him, to truly see him. Not as a huge, muscle-bound, killing machine werewolf, but him, the man. He hated always being alone.
A Delta’s scent was a natural aphrodisiac. It worked on humans like a great-smelling pheromone. Wolves, on the other hand, had a heightened sense of smell. They went nuts when they smelled a Delta.
It didn’t matter if it was a woman or a straight or gay man. They wanted him. It had less of an effect on mated wolves and thankfully no effect on cubs.
Deltas reacted with their basic instincts and the need for wild, hot, passionate sex. Every Delta had two mates out there for them, and given their increased adrenaline and sex drives, which produced their scent, they needed two mates to ground them. Alphas, Betas, other Deltas, and his mates were all immune to the scent as well. It would be hard to do his job for the pack if he couldn’t even talk with the Alpha or Beta of the pack because they were so busy trying to get him naked.
The scent itself was explained by the elders as necessary for Deltas to do their job in the pack for two reasons. One, it made it impossible to get close to members of the pack. If one day Sebastian needed to hunt down a member of the pack and he was friends with them, it would cloud the judgment of the Delta. He knew it made sense, but he still hated it. The reality was a very lonely life for Deltas, living on the outskirts of the pack.
Two, it helped in the hunt of any rogue pack members. The scent drove werewolves sexually crazy. They couldn’t think about running away or attacking the Delta if they were wildly horny.
The elders and the council told him over and over,
Deltas are such
a rarity, to be born as one is a great gift. With any gifts or power, the
responsibility is great and should always be remembered.
Trying to shake off his depressing thoughts, he put in his favorite CD on his favorite track. CCR must have had one werewolf in the group to make “Bad Moon Rising.” It always put a smile on his face, and by the middle, he was singing along with it.
* * * *
Fourteen grueling hours later, Sebastian pulled into a motel the next town over from where the rogue Alpha lived. After he was in his room, he thought about what his plan was going to be.
This was a strictly recon job. Gather all the information he could about the situation and report back to the council. Right now he was leaning toward a full-frontal approach—face Alpha Rodrick.
The story that was developing in his head was that he was unhappy with his current Alpha, which was true. He knew Alpha Rodrick’s pack didn’t have a Delta, so that could work to his advantage. If he could convince the Alpha that he was checking out possible packs to join, he’d have access to other pack members. Of course, he wasn’t really in the market for a new pack, except the Delta pack his friends were working on.
Matt, one of Aiden's mates, who was also his best friend, came up with the idea. Along with Matt and Aiden, Sebastian and Zac, his friend’s other mate, had been working around the clock to get the new pack up and running. The council gave their full permission to form the Delta pack, setting up land for them from an old pack that had dispersed. Sebastian had been nervous about that. The council was not known for their ability to accept change.
Hopping in the shower, Sebastian let the hot water run over his cramped muscles from being stuck in a car for so long. He thought about the land they moved onto. It seemed strange that the land had just been left. It seemed the pack disbanded over thirty years ago for some reason the Council wouldn’t discuss. Sebastian was glad it was only a few hours outside Atlanta and was a ghost town.
The houses and stores were mostly unlivable after thirty years of being unused, but the land was what they really wanted. Sebastian sold his house and started to have a new one built. They were just hoping that enough Deltas liked the idea and that their mates had a variety of professions. It wouldn’t work if they were all computer geniuses like Matt.
Zac had come up with packs having to pay for Deltas’ services.
That way, one person was the contact for the council and handed out assignments. It would be Zac, since they named him Alpha. Also, Matt could have the job of gathering info on the jobs. His skills as a hacker were excellent. Sebastian hadn’t known there were really people like him out there.
His thoughts drifted to how happy his friend Aiden was. Sebastian had been friends with Aiden since they were kids. He was seeing a side of Aiden he didn’t know existed. He was happy for Aiden, he really was. That didn’t stop the part of him that was jealous from filling his mind sometimes. Aiden deserved to be happy. He was a great guy.
Sebastian’s dad had been killed when he was ten, and while Sebastian had his mom, Aiden had always been there for him like a brother. Aiden’s dad had adopted Sebastian in a way, taking him camping and teaching him things that dads normally teach their kids.