Fighting Heaven for Love
Pine Falls 2
Fighting Heaven for Love
Caleb Mabry is Alpha of his mixed pride of shifters in Pine Falls. He is a mountain lion shifter who has always used brute strength to win his battles. When he and his brothers, Prescott and Lachlan, find their chosen mate, Meg O’Brien, they are angered by her refusal to even talk to them. Anger turns to fury when she rejects them.
Meg can’t accept her mates while a stalker threatens death to anyone who touches her. She runs away to save them, only for her stalker to nearly kill her and her sister, Lexie. Her mates rescue Meg and Lexie and discover her stalker is a creature with heavenly origins and a soul of pure evil.
To free Meg from the danger that follows her back to Pine Falls the pride ends up relying on a new and dangerous friend, who brings them protection and strength. Caleb must use his cunning, not his strength, to finally save his mate.
Genre:
Contemporary, Ménage a Trois/Quatre, Paranormal, Shape-shifter
Length:
41,522 words
Pine Falls 2
Ashley Malkin
MENAGE AMOUR
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FIGHTING HEAVEN FOR LOVE
Copyright © 2015 by Ashley Malkin
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FIGHTING HEAVEN FOR LOVE
Pine Falls 2
ASHLEY MALKIN
Copyright © 2015
Caleb waved good-bye to his enforcer and good friend, Sean, as he left on his honeymoon with his new bride, Kaitlyn, and her other mate, Aiden. Caleb shook his head for what seemed the fiftieth time that day as he considered the mating of three such unusual people.
“Still can’t get your head around it?” said Lachlan.
“Can you?”
“No, brother. Fate sure does work in mysterious ways.” Caleb smiled as he thought about that. Fate had brought his pride a vampire to add to its menagerie, plus Kaitlyn, who was a panther-vampire hybrid. On top of those recent surprises had come yesterday’s shock. Fate had delivered them their mate.
Meg O’Brien, Kaitlyn’s best friend had come to Pine Falls to be Kaitlyn’s bridesmaid. That status had changed the minute Caleb had caught her delicious honey and pine scent. She was now his. Not his alone. His two brothers, Lachlan and Prescott, were also Meg’s mates, and with her being so difficult, he was glad for the reinforcements.
“I can’t tell you how happy I am for Sean,” Caleb said, “and it’s not only for the fact he found his mate. If he hadn’t found Kaitlyn we may never have found our sweet Meg.” He scanned the room again, looking for his elusive mate.
Lachlan growled low in his throat at the mention of their mate. “This last twenty-four hours has been fucking torture.”
“Landon said she wanted today to be only about Kaitlyn. We have to admire her devotion to her friend’s happiness.”
“Like hell we do,” Prescott said. He appeared beside Caleb, determination etched on his face. “They’re gone now. I’m going to talk to our mate.”
“I must admit I don’t really understand her reticence,” Lachlan said. He was looking over the heads of the remaining guests. Caleb knew he was also looking for the small blond bundle of frustration that was their mate.
“I don’t either,” Caleb said. “But we’ve made it through today, so let’s go and ask her, shall we?”
He stalked off in the direction of the ladies room with his brothers hot on his heels. She’d ducked in there all day whenever she’d seen any of them approaching her. They would have simply gone in after her, but the Outpost’s owner, Landon, had always appeared like magic to stop them. The wedding had been held in the bear’s tavern as it was the only place in town big enough to hold the entire pride.
Caleb was furious with the big bear shifter for constantly thwarting his attempts to talk to his mate, but he also respected the man for helping her. She had shared something with Landon that had sparked his protective instincts and made him willing to go up against his Alpha, and Caleb was desperate to know exactly what that was.
Even his desperation, and his cat’s fury, had not made him force the issue. He could have commanded Landon to tell them, or to simply move aside so they could get to Meg, but Caleb knew that would be both an abuse of his authority as Alpha and a betrayal to his new mate. She had chosen to trust Landon and Caleb would not start their mating by stripping her of her free will.
Landon had assured them that she would talk to them after Kaitlyn had left and that she had good reasons for asking for a day’s grace, other than not wanting to rain on Kaitlyn’s wedding day. He couldn’t imagine what she thought they’d do to her. They only wanted to talk to their mate, they weren’t going to hit her over the head and drag her to their bed. His cock stirred at the image of dragging the delectable Meg to his bed.
“Jesus, Caleb. What did you just think about?” Lachlan said. He groaned and adjusted his own cock as they approached the ladies’ room door. “You’re mating musk just poured off you. Now I want to touch her more than I want to breathe.”
“You know what I was thinking. The exact same thing we’ve all been thinking for the last twenty-seven hours.” He wanted his small blue-eyed leopard. She was a beautiful woman, small for a shifter, standing around five feet one. She had curves that made his mouth water and long blonde hair that nearly reached her gorgeous ass.
Prescott reached the door first and instead of knocking he just threw the door open and walked straight in. “We waited. Now we talk,” Prescott muttered. Caleb almost laughed. Prescott
may
simply hit her over the head and drag her to their bed.
His laugh froze in his throat when Prescott’s roar shook the entire tavern. Striding into the ladies room, he saw that Prescott had shifted and now stood amongst the tatters of his suit as a huge, furious mountain lion. The empty room with its open window told him the reason for Prescott’s outburst of rage.
Meg was gone.
* * * *
Meg drove at speeds she knew she was not a proficient enough driver to handle, but she was forced to. She needed to get far enough away that they wouldn’t catch her. Her cat raged inside her. Its snarls and cries of pain were distracting, and she feared she may actually shift if she couldn’t rein her cat in.
“Soon. I will be back with them soon. I just have to get Lexie and then I’ll be back.” She chanted the words over and over, but it was not calming either her beast or herself.
Perhaps I should have done as Landon suggested.
The big bear had been an angel. He’d helped her duck the Mabry brothers for the entire wedding. She felt hideous for betraying him but had seen no other option. Nick would kill her mates if they so much as touched her, let alone if they came back with her. She knew he would. She had to believe his murderous threats. He’d stopped her every attempt at breaking free of him. Her cat quieted a little as she focused on the fact that she was doing this to save her mate’s lives.
Her mates.
Damn Nicholas Thomson to hell
. She should be over the moon at finding her mates, but instead she was even more terrified than she’d already been for the last month. She hadn’t thought that was even possible. Instead of just being responsible for her sister Lexie’s life, she was now responsible for the lives of three good men as well. No, three great and gorgeous men. The mating musk poured off her again. “No. Not yet. Soon.” She tried again to calm her cat.
She’d felt so alone and helpless in this battle, but had been glad Kaitlyn hadn’t been in San Diego with her. Nick would’ve just used Kaitlyn’s life as a means to control her, just like he’d been using Lexie.
How had things gotten so bad this
fast?
Kaitlyn’s only been gone a few weeks and my life has become a living nightmare.