Itching for Riley Savage’s wolf shifter romance? I’m working on it! I announced last week in DD’s Chickadees on Facebook (my reader group with over 4400 chickadees who get first looks at my teasers as well as get to procrastinate hang out with me).
Here’s the first official teaser snippet posted.
As of now I’m 261 pages/66,695 words into the story. There’s no ETA yet, but stay tuned. I’m hard at work on it.
Wicked, Savage Alpha Shifters #3; ©DD Prince, 2023.
Unedited, subject to changes.
“How many times over the years did you wish for a do-over? How often have you sworn you’d do anything to get her back?”
Grey knows he scores with that as I flinch.
“Well, you didn’t lose her, Rye. Some sh!t just got in the way. And now it’s finally outta the way.”
He stares, waiting for me to speak. I don’t, so he keeps going. “She’s yours, bro. The one meant to sire pups for you. Meant to keep you warm at night and light up your mornings. Fu<k, Savage. Get your godd@mn head out of your a$$ and claim your mate.”
I turn, ready to walk away, but crash into Tyson, who’s looking down at me from the two or three inches of height he has on me, which feels right now like two or three feet.
“How many times in your life did you fu<k up badly? Ever?” Tyson asks. “Saint Riley?”
I let out an impatient huff as I step back. I do not need this right now. I don’t have the godd@mn capacity for it.
“We all fu<k up. You’ve never made a mistake you wish you could take back? Your mate doesn’t deserve to be heard? Did I not deserve to be heard when I fu<ked up with my Ivy?”
“Ty…”
“I fu<ked up so bad with my mate I never should’ve gotten another chance. But I did.”
“This is different,” I grind out.
“How?” he demands. “Your mate is here to face what she did and fix it. Should I have not been heard? Do people not deserve a chance? Should Ivy have forgotten I existed because my instincts took over?”
I grind my teeth.
“You think a witch’s instinct isn’t to use magic?” He waits a beat, then says, “You know what you need, cousin? You need to be locked in a room with her until this gets worked out.”
“Not a bad idea,” I hear Lincoln say from behind me.
“Agreed,” Grey chimes in.
I slowly turn away from Ty and face the rest of them , seeing hardness in each of their expressions.
I grind out, “The pack isn’t supposed to get in the middle of a mating, so how about you all mind your own business?”
“The mating hasn’t happened, though, has it?” Jase weighs in. “And because you’re fighting fate, you’re not you. You know you’re not. You need to sort this sh!t before you lose more of yourself. We feel like we’re losing you, man. You know how bad this can go and you know you’d step in to help if it was one of us.”
My eyes skate across them. They’re all looking at me like they don’t get me. Though fu<k, I don’t get me.
“You need this,” Tyson says from behind me. “How do we make this happen? Can we vote?”
“Bring forth the motion, Ty, and we’ll all vote,” Grey invites.
“No,” I deny, laughing it off.
Tyson steps into my periphery and folds his arms over his chest. “I want Riley and his mate to go stay at my cabin for a week. Away from everyone. They should be able to work things out within that time if they’re left alone together.”
I scoff. “This is some horsesh!t.”
“I vote yes,” says Linc.
Joel states, “Same.”
“Aye.” Grey nods, then looks to Mason.
Wait a fu<king minute. I shake my head. “Guys. I am not doing this. I’ll decide if and when I-”
“Yeah. I vote yes. It’s a good idea,” Mason cuts me off, looking me in the eyes. “It probably won’t take a week. It’ll probably take an hour.”
“Nice of you to think this is no big deal, Mase. But it is a big fu<kin’ deal.”
“It’s the biggest deal, Riley,” Mason states. “It’s just that you’ve been refusing to deal with it. The Riley Savage I know doesn’t run from anything.”
“Fu<k this.”
“I also vote yes,” Jase also says. “Six yesses. It’s gotta happen, Rye.”
I’m thrown and feeling even more disconnected from them because all six of these a$$holes are unanimously voting to lock me up for a week with the one person I can’t bear to be alone with. Because if I’m alone with her again, I don’t know how the h3ll it’ll go.
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