Lycan on the Edge: Broken Heart Book 13 (18 page)

comfort him, and love him.

Sophie wrapped her arms around his neck and

stretched up to kiss him. “I’m okay with that

suggestion.”

He pressed his forehead against hers and

smiled. “Works for me,” he said.

“Me, too.”

“You know I love you, right?” He pushed back

her hair from face, carefully watching her reaction.

“Yeah, I figured,” she said.

He raised a brow.

She grinned. “You know I love you back,

right?”

He kissed her soundly. “I figured.”

Though dusk stretched purple fingers toward

the gold and red streaked sky, night sounds had

already emerged, the typical Oklahoma symphony

of chirping crickets and wind-rustled grass.

Sophie loved when beauty surprised her

senses, wrapping around her, singing to her soul.

She paused, closed her eyes, and breathed in the

moment. Being a herbalist satisfied her desire to

help others, and being a wolf satisfied the

restlessness that so often claimed her.

And now, in this moment, exhausted beyond

measure, embraced by the man she loved, she felt

completely at peace.

EPILOGUE

MECKENZIE LOOKED UP into the thick branches

of a strange tree. Its trunk was purple, and its

leaves a bright yellow. The sky was a wispy silver

and the ground a vivid blue. Had she fallen into a

box of crayons? Where the hell was she?

“You were very brave, honey.”

She turned and saw her mother. She couldn’t

believe her eyes. “Mom?”

Her

mom

wrapped

her

arms

around

Meckenzie’s neck and nearly squeezed the life

outta her. “I never thought I’d hug you again.” Wait.

If Meckenzie was really sitting next to her mother

then—oh, shit. “I’m dead?”

“Your corporeal form, yes.”

“But you’re free from the shadows and can, um

… move on?”

“Ena’s dead, and with her any curse she cast.

So, yes. I’m free.”

Meckenzie figured this was the part where

Mom said she was going off to heaven and

Meckenzie to a much warmer place, but she merely

drew her daughter in for another spin-cracking hug.

“You will have such a good life,” she whispered.

“You will have love, and family, and oh so many

wonderful adventures.”

Ren.
Oh, how her heart broke. “Dead here,

remember?”

She laughed, then pulled back and cupped

Meckenzie’s face. “I will watch over you and

yours. Always.”

Meckenzie didn’t remember her mother being

so dense. She tried again. “You told me that
life

was for the
living
.”

“Indeed.” She tweaked Meckenzie’s nose. “So

live well.”

YOUR LYCAN OR MINE?

Book 14 in The Broken Heart Paranormal Romance

Series

When Meckenzie Braith bolted from Broken Heart,

and the muscled arms of gorgeous
loup de sang

Ren Marchand, she promised herself that she’d

give up thievery and create a life on the right side

of the law.

It was a promise she kept for 8.2 seconds.

To be fair, she was using her skills for righting

wrongs. She no longer accepted money for her

efforts, and considered stealing for good causes as

penance for previous bad life decisions.

Okay, okay.
She befriended paranormal

orphans who helped her with heists, but she was

trying to reform them.
Really.

Then Meckenzie and her gang steal from the

wrong paranormal (for the right reason, of course)

and end up running for their lives.

The only place she knows where she can

protect herself and her charges is the paranormal

community of Broken Heart, Oklahoma. The

problem? She deceived the entire town, including

the vampire queen.

But to save the kids who depend on her,

Meckenzie will face head-on the people she

betrayed—and the blood wolf she left behind.

Learn more!

THE BROKEN HEART BOOKS

The Broken Heart Series

#1 I’m the Vampire, That’s Why

#2 Don’t Talk Back To Your Vampire

#3 Because Your Vampire Said So

#4 Wait Until Your Vampire Gets Home

#5 Over My Dead Body

#6 Come Hell or High Water

#7 Cross My Heart

#8 Must Love Lycans

#9 Only Lycans Need Apply

#10 Broken Heart Tails

#11 Some Lycan Hot

#12 You’ll Understand When You’re Dead

#13 Lycan on the Edge

#14 Your Lycan or Mine?

Broken Heart Holidays

#1 Valentine’s Day Sucks
(Valentine’s Day)

#2 Harry Little, Leprechaun
(St. Patrick’s Day)

#3 Some Lycan Halloween
(Halloween)

#4 Werewolf, Interrupted
(Groundhog Day)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michele Bardsley is a New York Times and USA Today

bestselling author of paranormal romance.
When she’s

not writing sexy tales of otherworldly love, she watches

“Supernatural,” consumes chocolate, crochets hats, reads

books, and spends time with her husband and their fur

babies.

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COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2015 by Michele Bardsley

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All characters in this book have no existence

outside the imagination of the author, and have no

relation whatever to anyone bearing the same name

or names. All incidents are pure invention.

• Title Page
  
• Dedication
  
• Together, they will save parakind…
  
• Prologue
  
• Chapter One
  
• Chapter Two
  
• Chapter Three
  
• Chapter Four
  
• Chapter Five
  
• Chapter Six
  
• Chapter Seven
  
• Chapter Eight
  
• Chapter Nine
  
• Chapter Ten
  
• Chapter Eleven
  
• Chapter Twelve
  
• Chapter Thirteen
  
• Chapter Fourteen
  
• Epilogue
  
• Your Lycan or Mine?
  
• The Broken Heart Books
  
• About the Author
  
• Copyright