The Wolfing Way (Lifting the Veil) (12 page)
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Authors: Susan Laine
“Love doesn’t abide by schedules, my love.” Rafe chuckled pleasantly as the full understanding of his happy-ever-after future with his mate becoming realized finally dawned on him. “Because you know, honey, what we’ve got here is love, and not just a business deal, or an arranged marriage, or a mate price contract—or steaming-hot sex. This here is true love.”
Kris chuckled happily too. “Glad you finally got that through your thick skull, you big lug.” Snuggling closer to his mate, Kris sighed contentedly. “And Rafe? I love you.”
His heart skipping a beat, Rafe tightened his hold on his mate, closing his hazel eyes with the certain knowledge he’d found what he’d sought his whole life. “I love you too, honey.”
Epilogue
“A
H
,
THERE
she is,” Rafe stated, glancing toward the front door. “Hey, April.”
The day after his and Rafe’s kiss-and-make-up, Kris and his family were finally going to meet the traveling King sister, and in expectation of that meeting, both families were gathered in the large living room of the ranch’s main house. With curiosity, Kris peered toward the front door as it opened.
From his side, Kris could suddenly hear Isaiah draw in a sharp breath as he stared at the two women walking in. June, whom they were already acquainted with, was laughing at something April had said, while April, whom they’d not yet had the pleasure of meeting, smiled warmly. She was lovely in her formal, stylish business-type work dress and small woolly jacket over it, both the color of burgundy just like her long wavy hair.
“Hot damn…,” Isaiah muttered, and the room fell silent at the impromptu declaration.
Frowning in confusion, Kris looked up at his brother, seeing how Isaiah’s grayish eyes grew wide to gawk and sort of glazed over as his jaw dropped down. From the doorway, the women came in—and all of a sudden April’s nose twitched, as if she smelled something.
Nothing else was needed for Kris to grasp in a flash what was going on.
This hunch was only confirmed when a dazed Isaiah, with a goofy lopsided grin, took a step forward—totally forgetting the couch was there, and thus falling over it flat on his face. Scampering back to his feet, cursing while doing so, he shook his confused head and asked, perplexed, “What the hell just hap—”
Stopping suddenly, like hitting a brick wall at full speed, Isaiah stared mesmerized at April, whose warm brown eyes studied the dazed man from head to toe, and the curvy smile on her full, pouty lips indicated the true state of affairs.
Isaiah was April’s mate.
Kris nearly keeled over at the prospect but felt a giddy kind of elation at the thought of his brother finding happiness in the King household too. Now if he could just convince his parents to move out to Wyoming as well….
“Well, would you look at that,” Rafe whispered in Kris’s ear while wrapping his arms around his mate from behind, cradling him in his embrace.
Kris melted into the loving hug, biting back an ironic laugh at his instantly smitten brother, who’d been the most vocal against the whole situation concerning predestined mates, arranged marriages, and mate prices. Now with April to set his sights on, Isaiah was personally going to get a taste of the flipside of things. Kris chuckled amusedly, and with a deep blissful sigh settled back more comfortably into his mate’s hold, with every intention of never leaving it.
About the Author
S
USAN
L
AINE
was born and raised in Finland to the best mother in the world, and she told her daughter time and again that she could be and do whatever she wanted in her life. However, it took her until her thirties to find the spark for serious writing by discovering the gay erotic romance genre which is what she mainly writes today.
Her formal education revolves around anthropology, but wishing in time to become a full-time writer Susan does office work at her unfortunately necessary evil day job. When not working or writing (yes, it’s her second job), Susan enjoys hanging out with her sister and friends in movie theaters and book stores. Her other pastimes include walking, swimming, and fantasizing about sizzling hot manlove. Some of her likes are Lady Gaga, chocolate and doing the dishes (it’s relaxing), and a few dislikes are sweating hot summer days, tobacco smoke and purposeful prejudice. She hopes to one day write a historical romance novel and a murder mystery, too, but all in good time - and there will undoubtedly be a gay romantic twist.
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Copyright
The Wolfing Way ©Copyright Susan Laine, 2012
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Cover Art by Shobana Appavu [email protected]
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Released in the United States of America
May 2012
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eBook ISBN: 978-1-61372-508-5
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