Ruthless Mate

Ruthless Beginning

When she first saw him, she knew the Devil had walked in.

I Wh- why? Why are you doing this?" A lone tear rolled down her cheek as his muscular arms wrapped around her waist and he pinned her body to his solid front.

"Why?" He rasped into her ear, his voice saturated with menace, then he licked away the salty string of tear in one tortuously slow stroke that had her weak at the knees. "Because every story needs a villain," he continued devilishly, "and I'm the big, bad monster in your book."

*When she was young she ran into the woods, forbidden woods and unknowingly awakened the king of all beasts, a lycan cursed to eternal slumber by the moon goddess for the unspeakable evil he committed, a monster who did not have to roam the lands again. Two years later her parents are killed and her pack destroyed and she is driven to human land. Ten years later she has blended with the humans, priding herself in being a writer, although a struggling one, working night shifts at a hospital- she even has a loving boyfriend she plans on marrying and has forgotten and put the past behind her- until a monster walks into her life and spins it into chaos,

a monster who unfortunately is her mate*