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for-
you
Synopsis:
First rule of being a single dad... Don't f*ck up.
Dragon-shifter Keaton Lafay is at the end of his
rope. It's hard being a single dad, especially when his daughter is a teenager
who can breathe fire. When his clan signs him up for a singles cruise with Meet
Your Alpha, Keaton has no choice but to go. The catch? Thanks to a certain
daughter's recent expulsion, he isn't sailing alone. Out at sea, surrounded by
nothing but water, desperate single females, and his crotchety daughter, what
could possibly go wrong?
As a child counselor to a school full of female
preteen shifters, Wren Michaels is convinced she's seen it all. But when Jinx
Lafay loses control and shifts on campus grounds, she soon realizes she doesn't
know anything. Including how easy it is to fall for Jinx's growly father. When
she stumbles across Keaton on a singles cruise, it seems like all her dreams
are about to come true. Until a strange witch awakens something powerful within
Wren--something best left forgotten...
BURN FOR YOU is part of the Bad Alphas Project
as well as the first book in Gwen Knight's Cruising with Alphas Series!
Keaton
Purrs4You: Hey handsome.
Wanna fuck? I’ve never ridden a dragon before.
I bit back a laugh and stared at the words,
astounded by her lack of effort. Seriously? Was this what amounted to dating
these days? Just sign up on a website and fire off a few risqué sentences with
the hope someone responds? And her username? A dig at her shifter form, most
likely. Probably some type of cat—I hadn’t bothered to read her profile.
Purrs4You: Well? You
interested, baby? Bet I can set your loins on fire.
And not in a good way, I assumed. Who the hell
was this woman? Did she honestly think this sort of message would work? I shook
my head, about to close down the conversation when I saw those three little
dots scrawling across the screen, indicating an incoming message.
Joy of joys.
Except, instead of more text, a picture popped
up on my screen. A picture of… Whoa. I blinked, equally surprised and amused by
this turn of events. Definitely a pussy
staring back at me. And not the four-legged kind.
Clearly, she expected a response. I imagined her
sitting at a desk somewhere, tapping these long nails against the wooden top as
she waited for my answer, a predator among prey. Well, dragon trumped kitty any
day of the week. And this dragon had zero interest in making her purr.
I typed out a quick message. Simple and
succinct.
Keats: Not interested.
Purrs4You: Bet I can change your mind. No one
can resist petting my mouse.
Her…what now? I wasn’t entirely up on modern-day slang, but I think I got the gist of
that one. I exhaled and tossed my phone down onto my own desk.
My phone dinged again, but I ignored it. Ever since Jasper signed me up on that stupid
site, it’d been one message after another. Ding, ding,
ding. Nonstop alerts filling up my phone until I wanted to break the
damn thing.
God, I hated dating.
The entire process was maddening. The wooing,
the flowers, the pretty words, the false promises… Not to mention the most
difficult part: meeting someone. People often said the first obstacle was the
hardest to overcome. But, seriously? What the hell did these women expect from
me?
Back in my day, dating seemed so simple. Find a
beautiful dragon-shifter, charm her with hordes of gold and plumes of fire,
then settle down, marry, and pop out a few kids. I’d done all of that, only to
find myself widowed and alone within twenty years—a shockingly short timespan
when dealing with shifters.
Nowadays, it seemed like women wanted so much
more. Not to mention my chances of finding another female dragon-shifter were
slim to nil. We were a dying breed. The world had given way to the wolves and
the lions—the more adaptable breeds. We dragons were caught in the past. We
missed our castles and riches, and the days when we could spread our wings and
take to the skies. Now we needed a bloody flying permit. Even had to register
with the Federal Aviation Administration. Somewhere in my wallet, I literally
had a card that read recreational pilot.
I leaned back in my cushioned chair and stared
at the matchmaking website in front of me. MeetYourAlpha.com—Where Happily Ever Alphas Are Only A Click
Away. Catchy, I suppose. When Jasper first told me about this site, he’d
claimed it catered to the paranormal community, though they did allow humans to
join if they so desired. How my happily-married second-in-command had heard
about this site, I hadn’t a clue. Nor did I intend to ask. Ignorance was bliss.
Jasper had even gone so far as to make me a
profile, seeing as he was one of the few who not only understood technology but
reveled in it. The marvelous things modern
technology can do, he’d said. Truthfully, I’d nearly torn a few scales off
his hide when he’d first mentioned this to me. Until I’d spotted the hopeful
gleam in my clan members’ eyes. For five years now, I’d been without a mate,
and it seemed they were of the unanimous decision that I needed to find someone
new who would care for me and my daughter.
It didn’t matter to them that I’d already had my chance at true love.
And lost it.
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About Author:
Gwen Knight is a Canadian girl currently living
in Jasper, AB. She graduated from the University of Lethbridge with a degree in
Archaeology and Geography. Her interests consist of playing in the dirt,
designing elaborate snow forts, boating, and archery.
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