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Is the world ready for shifters?
Kitty Kelley is running from her past dragging along her younger twin sisters. With a bit of luck she ends up at the Masters pack. Just as she starts to get comfortable—her past catches up.
Everett Cord wants what his cousin has found. A mate. He used to be the go to guy for his cousin, but now that he has a mate, Everett is a bit lost. When Kitty's past shows up, he is there to protect her.
Shifters are about to be exposed to the world and it's going to take Kitty's past and Everett standing strong with her to make sure the outcome doesn't have them locked in cages.
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Absolution - Jambrea Jones
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Absolution
ISBN # 978-1-78184-184-6
©Copyright Jambrea Jo Jones 2012
Cover Art by Posh Gosh ©Copyright November 2012
Edited by Sue Meadows
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Published in 2012 by Total-E-Bound Publishing, Think Tank, Ruston Way, Lincoln, LN6 7FL, United Kingdom.
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This story contains 89 pages, additionally there is also a free excerpt at the end of the book containing 7 pages.
Seeds of Dawn
ABSOLUTION
Jambrea Jo Jones
Book six in the Seeds of Dawn Series
Is the world ready for shifters?
Kitty Kelley is running from her past, dragging along her younger twin sisters. With a bit of luck she ends up at the Masters pack. Just as she starts to get comfortable—her past catches up.
Everett Cord wants what his cousin has found. A mate. He used to be the go-to guy for his cousin, but now that he has a mate, Everett is a bit lost. When Kitty’s past shows up, he is there to protect her.
Shifters are about to be exposed to the world and it’s going to take Kitty’s past and Everett standing strong with her to make sure the outcome doesn’t have them locked in cages.
Dedication
This one is for me. Dreams, book one of the Seeds of Dawn series, was the first story I wrote for publication. It wasn’t my first book published, but it was my first Total-e-Bound story in the anthology Over the Moon. Absolution is the last book in the series and it’s hard to believe it’s coming to an end. It’s been a great ride with the Masters pack and I hope you’ve enjoyed your time with them as much as I have.
And thank you to Kelly who let me use her name. Hope you like your fictional character as well as your fictional partner.
Also a shout out to Kim, Jenn, Rhonda, Susan, Valerie and Jo for winning an auction and giving me the characters Peter and Everett.
Last but not least, Joy.
Trademarks Acknowledgement
The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of the following wordmarks mentioned in this work of fiction:
Cowboys and Angels : Dustin Lynch, Josh Leo, Tim Nichols
I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing: Diane Warren
Armageddon: Touchstone Pictures
Punk’d: MTV Networks, Inc.
Washington Post: The Washington Post Company
Smart Car: Daimler AG
Prologue
This is Jill Scott with the late-night edition of your local news.
She held a hand up to her ear and looked confused before speaking again. I’m getting some breaking news. My station manager has just informed me that the following video you are about to see is not a hoax. I repeat, this is not a hoax. Last night our camera crew caught something extraordinary on tape. The kind of thing you only see in the movies. Take a look.
The reporter faded away and on the screen was an image of a man changing into a wolf, but the reporter’s shocked gasp was caught on the audio. She seemed to compose herself back into her on-air persona. Her tone nice and even—as if she hadn’t seen a person changing into a wolf along with the rest of the nation.
We are not sure who this is, but if you have any information, the local authorities would like you to contact them. Please, keep your distance. We don’t know if it’s dangerous.
* * * *
Bella Pouge sat bolt upright in bed and clutched a blanket. She gasped for air and willed herself to calm down.
Bella, honey, what’s wrong?
David Sanders, her mate, reached up to stroke her back.
Sorry, didn’t mean to wake you.
She struggled to calm herself.
Mmkay. You good?
David patted her hip.
She looked down at him, his eyes were still closed. Bella smiled. He was still half asleep and trying to comfort her. Bella rubbed her stomach and sighed.
I had a dream,
she admitted.
A vision?
David sat up slowly and pulled her to his chest.
I—oh, God, David, I hope not.
She snuggled closer, letting him comfort her.
What is it?
Werewolves are going to be exposed on the nightly news if we don’t do something to stop it. That is, if I had a vision.
The Ancients said it would happen.
David sounded resigned.
I know, I was just hoping this once they’d be wrong. Things have been so good lately. Must have been the calm before the storm. We have too much to lose to let this just happen, David. If that news story breaks before we have a handle on the situation, we could all be caged as lab experiments or die.
Bella’s hands shook as she rubbed her belly again.
David put his hand over hers. Let’s go find Russell.
Bella watched her lover get out of bed, and prayed to the Ancients that they could weather this storm as they had all the others before them.
Please let this be the last trial so we can have peace in the Masters pack.
David reached to help Bella out of bed. It has to be, we’ve already been through more than one pack should have to.
He kissed her on the check.
If it wasn’t for some of that trouble we would have never met. The same goes for most of the mated pairs in the pack.
This is true, I wouldn’t change any of that for the world, but it’s time. We were lured into a false sense of security. We knew something like this would happen. We should have taken care of it months ago, but I understand Russell’s reluctance. Hell, I don’t want to become a scientific experiment any more than the next guy.
Don’t even tease about that, David.
Who’s teasing?
David patted her on the butt.
Bella just shook her head, rolled her eyes and continued dressing.
The pack is still at the pond at the party Russ and Vivian put on.
Bella had been tired and they’d called it an early night, retiring to their house behind the big pack compound. She looked around at what had become her home. She wasn’t going to lose it without a fight. Bring on the humans. They wouldn’t wreck what she’d built. Bella refused to lie down and take what might be dished out. The Masters pack would be victorious. After all, they’d survived a lot of trials in the previous few months. She absentmindedly rubbed her stomach again.
Chapter One
Dance?
A hand appeared in Kitty Kelley’s line of sight. She flinched.
Damn it, I’m stronger than this.
She hated the fact that she was reduced to jerking away at the slightest movement. She was safe now.
Kitty had been too busy keeping an eye on her twin sisters, Bunny and Poppy. Her parents had been high on drugs when they named them all. Who in their right mind would name werewolves after animals that wolves would sooner eat than play with, and a flower?
Her sisters had gone to get some punch. This was the first time the three of them had joined the Masters pack for an event since they’d been rescued from the Tyler pack. One of the few lucky breaks they’d been given in their lives.
It had been the pack alpha, Russell Masters, who’d insisted they join the festivities. He’d been so good to them over the last few months that they couldn’t refuse. It was thanks to him they had a roof over their heads and they weren’t starving.
Kitty smoothed down the front of her skirt to calm herself and looked up to see who’d asked her to dance. He’d pulled his hand back when she’d had her kneejerk reaction.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to startle you.
Everett Cord grinned down at her and shrugged. He put his hand in his pockets and rocked back on his heels.
Everett was very handsome with his spiked strawberry blond hair and dark green eyes. He had a very appealing dimple on his chin. For some reason she wanted to lick it. The thought came out of nowhere. She shook her head.
He’d been there the day she and the girls had been rescued. It was Everett who pulled her and her sisters out of the awful pack house they’d ended up in when their parents had died. Murder-suicide and she really didn’t want to think about that. Not now and maybe never.
Everett was losing his smile and backing away—it was her fault for not speaking up and getting lost in her own thoughts. Shoot. She couldn’t have that. She needed to thank him.
Wait. Sorry.
She glanced at Bunny and Poppy, who were talking to a few of the other pack members and they seemed good—safe. They didn’t need her hovering over them. They were