Mine for Eternity [Council Enforcers] (Siren Publishing Classic)

Council Enforcers

Mine for Eternity

Tessa Palmer witnessed a murder walking home late from work one night and is forced to take her son and run. Not even she is willing to admit the strange things she saw that night. Exhausted, she breaks into a house to get her and her son something to eat and a shower.

Mitch Ericson is a lion shifter and one of the most feared Council Enforcers there is. He is content to spend his days alone lounging and napping in the sun until his mate literally breaks into his house.

Realizing Tessa is on the run from a rogue shifter, Mitch calls in a few friends to help keep his mate safe. Unfortunately, their search for the rogue chasing Tessa reveals an even deeper plot. Not only does Mitch have to figure out how to keep his mate safe, but he also has to figure out who is behind the plot to reveal their secret to the world.

Genre:
Contemporary, Paranormal, Shape-shifters

Length:
46,699 words
 

Council Enforcers

Keyonna Davis

EROTIC ROMANCE

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MINE FOR ETERNITY

Copyright © 2013 by Keyonna Davis

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First E-book Publication: January 2013

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MINE FOR ETERNITY

Council Enforcers

KEYONNA DAVIS

Copyright © 2013

“Oh, thank God, a bathroom. Okay, baby. Get your clothes off while I start the shower. We have to hurry before whoever owns this house gets home.”

What the hell?
Mitch Ericson lifted his head from the spot where he had been sunning himself in the last of the evening sun on his bedroom floor. Still groggy from his nap, he watched as a woman entered his bathroom and started his shower. He was in too much shock to do anything else. The woman was either very brave or very stupid to have entered his home without permission. Anyone that knew him knew to stay away from his sanctuary. Mitch enjoyed his privacy, and he fought anyone with tooth and claw that threatened that privacy.

“Kitty!”

Mitch stared into the wide, ice-blue eyes of a little boy staring back at him. The boy looked to be about two years old and was dirty from head to toe. If he wasn’t mistaken, the little boy looked like he could use a good meal as well. In fact, the boy could have used a few good meals.

“What did you say, baby? Do you have your clothes off?”

Mitch heard the woman yell from the bathroom, but he was too busy focusing on the little boy now crawling toward him on his hands and knees.

“Kitty.”

He didn’t know whether to be angry at being called a kitty—he was a five-hundred-pound lion after all—or be awed that this little runt of a boy had no fear of him. All he could smell coming from the boy was curiosity and a strange scent that made him want to purr, but no fear. He made a chuffing noise when the boy got closer. He didn’t want to scare him, but Mitch definitely didn’t want to hear the ear-piercing scream the boy’s mother was sure to make when she walked into the room and got a look at her son petting a lion that could easily swallow him whole.

“Kitty, kitty. Meow.” The boy continued crawling undeterred.

Mitch would have laughed if he was in his human form. He was a mighty lion, king of the jungle, not that he actually lived in a jungle. He had been known to make men cry and wet themselves with just his roar. If that didn’t help, his job as a council enforcer had men running in the other direction, but the boy was meowing at him like he was some common house cat.

“Okay, baby, I’m done. Come get in the—”

And there goes the screaming.
Mitch would have roared, but he didn’t want to make the situation worse. His ears already felt like they were bleeding from the earsplitting screams coming from the woman. The boy, startled from hearing his mother scream, started to cry, adding to the noise.

“Oh God, oh God, oh God,” the woman chanted as she inched closer to the little boy. “Nico, don’t move. Just stay there and wait for Mommy to come and get you.”

Now Mitch could smell fear, but it was only coming from the woman. The little boy just seemed confused. He watched as the woman, who was completely naked due to the fact that she had dropped her towel when she had first seen him, slowly crept toward him and the boy she called Nico. He knew what she was seeing. A five-hundred-pound lion lying on the floor of the house that she had broken into was probably the last thing she would have ever expected. Hell, seeing a lion in person and not behind a cage at a zoo was something that most people would never get to see in their lifetimes. This woman was looking directly into the eyes of one while her small child was sitting within touching distance of it. Mitch could have licked the boy without lifting his head if he wanted to.

“Kitty, Mommy,” the boy said, pointing at him.

“Yeah, baby. Mommy can see that. Nice kitty. Niiiice kitty.”

The woman held her hands in front her as she inched toward Mitch. He wanted to protest being called a kitty. He was a mighty beast, not some puny house cat, but he was too mesmerized by the woman’s breasts as they slightly jiggled with each step she took. They were small and tipped with rosy nipples that were hard. He didn’t know if it was from the cool air or from fear, but Mitch didn’t care. Either way, they were spectacular. He watched as a bead of water dripped from her wet hair and rolled down her chest headed directly toward her left nipple. He wanted to trace the trail the water made with his tongue. After that, he wouldn’t mind licking the woman from head to toe. Once he was done with that, he would make both of them eat. Nico wasn’t the only one who looked like they had missed a few meals. The woman looked worse. He could see her ribs poking through her skin.

The closer the woman got, the more of an urge Mitch had to purr and rub himself all over her, marking her with his scent. There was just something about the woman and the boy setting off his protective instincts that he couldn’t explain. He wanted to drag her and the boy close and tuck them under him, keeping them with him. That wouldn’t have been unusual for most lion shifters, but Mitch wasn’t most. He was unusual. While other lions chose to live in a pride and be surrounded by others of their kind, he preferred to be alone. He spent most days in his shifted form napping in the sun unless he was on a job. He did what he wanted when he wanted and answered to no one. Mitch wouldn’t have it any other way. So why was he tempted to claim both of these people that had broken into his home?

Mitch was snapped out of his thoughts when the most mouthwatering smell hit him. The woman was right next to him now, slowly reaching for the boy. Beneath the fear, he smelled the sweet scent of vanilla and spring rain.
Mate!
That was the strange scent he had caught on the boy. He smelled his mate on him because he carried a small trace of his mother’s scent. Mitch reacted without thinking. He stood and licked his mate. He began purring as his tongue raked across her inner thigh.
Mine!

Unfortunately, his sudden movement set the woman off and she began screaming again. She snatched the boy in her arms and ran out of the room. There was no way Mitch was letting his mate get away from him. He gave chase, shifting smoothly as he ran. He was on two legs by the time he made it to the bedroom door.

“Wait,” he yelled out, snatching a pair of old shorts from the chair next to the door. He stumbled trying to put the shorts on as he ran, but he didn’t want to frighten the woman any more than he already had by chasing after her naked.

By the time he made it to the stairs, the woman was at the front door. She was still naked, gripping the boy on her hip as she struggled to open the door in her panic. There was no way he could let his mate run out of the house naked. Mitch lived in the middle of nowhere, and there was no one around for miles to see her, but that didn’t matter to him.

Mate! Mine!
His lion grumbled in his head. “Please stop. I won’t hurt you!” Mitch yelled as he ran down the steps after his mate.

* * * *

Tessa Palmer couldn’t get her fingers to work as she tried to get the front door open. It had been a stupid idea to break into the house in the first place, but she and Nico were so tired and hungry. She had watched the house for two hours without seeing any movement, so she had decided it was worth the risk.