The Alpha's to Share: A BBW Paranormal Shifter Romance

• Title Page
  
• 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 Fourteen
  
• Chapter Fourteen
  
• Chapter Fifteen
  
• Chapter Sixteen
  
• Chapter Seventeen
  
• Chapter Eighteen
  
• Chapter Nineteen
  
• Chapter Twenty
  
• Chapter Twenty-One
  

The Alpha’s to Share

A BBW Shifter Ménage Romance

Primrose Peak Shifters #1

Alanis Knight

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Smashwords Edition

This is a standalone novel in the Primrose Peak Shifters series. Each couple will get their own Happily Ever After in each book!

Everyone knows that shifters need human females to breed. It’s a common fact that females of their own species are almost always infertile. The trouble is that finding a human female who won’t run away in terror is a lot harder than one might think!

Enter the Mail Order Mates Agency! Their one purpose is finding mates for eligible shifters who can’t otherwise find that perfect female.

Seth is the Alpha of the Primrose pack, and his brother, Wyatt, is desperate to convince him to take a mate and secure an heir to his title before someone else challenges him for his position and turns their pack upside down.

Callie Reynolds is about as down on her luck as one girl can get. She’s lost her job, her friends hate her, and her family has disowned her. All because she was accused of something she didn’t even do!

When she’s approached by a little old woman who claims to be a fortuneteller with the secret to a happy life, she’s naturally skeptical. But with nothing to lose, city girl Callie accompanies the elderly lady back to her tiny cottage on the outskirts of the forest.

What she discovers will change her life forever, and just might truly be they key to everything she’s ever dreamed of, landing her smack in the middle of two gorgeous brothers who are suddenly both desperate for her attention!

Will Seth be willing and able to share his new mate with his brother, or will the fur fly as the two brothers both try to claim the curvy redhead?

© Copyright 2014, Alanis Knight, All Rights Reserved

“Seth, you cannot put this off any longer,” said Wyatt, the Alpha’s younger brother and second-in-command. “If you don’t take a mate soon, someone is going to challenge you for your position as Alpha. Please, Seth, just consider this. You need an heir!”

“You’re asking me to put my faith in that old woman?” Seth argued. “She’s a little on the nutty side, don’t you think? And besides, she’s a raccoon. They’re thieves, the lot of them!”

“Madge is a good woman, Seth,” Wyatt said. “She’s doing a good thing. She’s helped a lot of Alphas find mates over the years. What could it hurt?”

“And what if she sends me some whiny little girl who is a spoiled little princess and complains constantly?” Seth asked. “Or some stuck up snob who thinks she’s better than us because we’re shifters? What should I do? Just send her back where she came from to tell the whole world where we are?”

“Or you could just kill her,” Wyatt shrugged. Seeing the incredulous look spreading across his brother’s face, he quickly added, “Kidding! Jeez, lighten up, would you? Seriously, just give it a chance. If it doesn’t work out, Madge will clean it up.”

“I don’t like this,” Seth said. “I like being free. I don’t want some bossy, overbearing woman trying to tell me what to do all the time.”

“You’re Alpha,” Wyatt pointed out. “You don’t have to stand for that if you don’t want to. You can put her in her place.”

Seth sighed heavily and pinched the bridge of his nose. Why couldn’t Wyatt just leave well enough alone?

Of course, he did have a point. He needed to ensure his genetic line. He needed to be sure that someone from his family would be next in line as Alpha. Wyatt was only a Beta, so he could never take Seth’s place. But Seth was an Alpha, which meant his offspring were quite likely to be, too. At least one of them.

“Damn it,” Seth muttered. “Fine. I’ll write her and see what she comes up with.”

“Thank god!” Wyatt said, throwing his hands up in excitement. “But why don’t we go see her in person? Aren’t you excited to hurry this along?”

“What’s this ‘we’ thing? Someone has to stay here and watch over the pack,” Seth reminded his brother. “I’ll go.
On my own.
But I’d rather just write. It is a
mail order
bride agency, after all.”

“Fine,” Wyatt groaned. “But she doesn’t live that far away, Seth. No use writing when you can go see her in person. Besides, I wanted to see who she picks for you.”

“You’ll see her soon enough,” Seth said. Then he muttered under his breath, “And so will I, unfortunately.” Then he added, “Shall I send word that I’m coming?”

“You don’t have to,” Wyatt said. “She’ll see it.”

“Oh, right, the fortuneteller thing,” Seth groaned. “You don’t really believe that, do you?”

Wyatt shrugged and said, “Everyone says it’s true.”

Seth rolled his eyes and shook his head. Wyatt was so gullible. He couldn’t believe he’d let his brother rope him into this. He was going to trust the choice of his mate to a little old lady, a raccoon shifter, no less, who was crazy, to boot.

Oh, well. If he was going to do this, he wanted to get it over with as soon as possible. It was only a few days walk in wolf form to reach the old lady’s cottage. It would take longer in human form, so he wouldn’t pack anything. He’d just have to wing it as far as clothing once he arrived.

He had traveled for two days, hunting along the way for food, when he detected the scent of rain in the air. This was no ordinary rain. This was certain to be a deluge that would continue for days. It was thick and heady with the musk of dust. It would be no simple afternoon shower.

This would undoubtedly slow him down. Even a wolf was slower on muddy ground with wind and rain driving against his face and chilling him through his fur. But he had no choice other than to continue on.

As the storm clouds rolled in black and ominous, he pressed forward. The thunder rumbled and the lightning crashed, but still he went on. He could have taken shelter. He could have found an abandoned hunting cabin or an empty cave and hung around until the storms passed. But something was pressing him onward. There was an urgency deep within him that he refused to acknowledge, but it kept him driven toward his goal.

Seth shook his head and body as the first drops of rain began to patter against him. He hated the feeling of raindrops falling on fur, and each and every individual droplet made his skin twitch upon impact.

He relished the feeling of rain against his human skin, but he could not shift. He would lose enough time as it was due to the rain. He couldn’t afford to lose even more by traveling in his slower human form.

He had himself convinced that he was in a hurry because he needed to return quickly to his pack. He was Alpha, after all. And his pack was constantly under the threat of human encroachment or other groups of shifters.

There were few areas of true wilderness left in the country, and shifters had claimed nearly every area already. His pack was small, and they’d stand little chance of surviving an attack from either a rival shifter gang or a group of humans bent on taking the pack’s territory for their own.

Still, something crept into the back of his mind and refused to let go. He wasn’t sure quite what it was, but it kept him pressing on through the storm, through his hunger, through his exhaustion. He stopped to hunt only when his hunger would allow him to go no further, and he rested only when he found suitable temporary shelter, choosing instead to keep moving until his body was so weak he was
forced
to rest, if only for a short while.

On and on he traveled, through the driving rains, the vicious winds, and the lightning that had caused him to smell the pungent bite of singed wood in the air several times.

My brother better be right about this Madge,
Seth grumbled inwardly.
I can’t afford to be away from my pack this long only to end up with some horrid wench that will just make my life ever harder.