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    Forbidden Mate: A Shapeshifter Paranormal Romance
    Forbidden Mate: A Shapeshifter Paranormal Romance
    Forbidden Mate: A Shapeshifter Paranormal Romance
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    Forbidden Mate: A Shapeshifter Paranormal Romance

    By Kate Rudolph

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    Riley Donahue is on the verge of making the biggest mistake of her life: mating with a man that she neither loves nor knows. On the eve of her commitment, her best friend, Jake, makes a shocking confession that could change the course of her life forever.

    Friends since the cradle, Riley and Jake don’t know how to live without one another. Caught between duty and her heart, Riley may be forced to sacrifice Jake to preserve everything that she has ever wanted.

    This is a steamy novella featuring a curvy werewolf lady, her sexy best friend, and a smokin’ friends to lovers tale.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKate Rudolph
    Release dateOct 1, 2015
    ISBN9781519987587
    Forbidden Mate: A Shapeshifter Paranormal Romance
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    Kate Rudolph

    Kate Rudolph never knows when to stop. Whether it’s riding her bike down the busy streets of Austin, Texas, fixing computers, or shooting off answers to trivia quizzes, she is doing something. She began writing at a young age and now has a stack of projects as tall as her. When she was a child, she visited a wolf sanctuary and became fascinated by the animals. She is concerned with animal conservation and protection. Kate has published one complete series, Stealing the Alpha, and several stand alones. Want to know when she releases a new book? Sign up to her mailing list to receive notifications of new releases and deals. The link can be found here: http://katerudolph.net/index.php/subscribe You can also find her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katerudolphauthor Her website is www.KateRudolph.net

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      Forbidden Mate - Kate Rudolph

      Forbidden Mate

      by

      Kate Rudolph

      Copyright 2015

      Table of Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter One

      I wasn’t crying. Tears were useless when all of the decisions had been made, all fates sealed. If I was going to cry, I would have done it weeks ago when my father made the announcement. When he asked me to give myself over to a stranger to strengthen our pack.

      I would be alpha one day, and an alpha sacrificed for her pack.

      But they usually chose their own mates.

      No. I needed to stop dwelling. I had chosen Geoffrey. Even if I had never met him. Even if I didn’t know whether or not we would suit. It was my choice to follow through with this and it wasn’t a mistake.

      Riley, are you back there?

      Jake Marshall walked through the entrance to the small pantry in the back of the kitchen where I’d barricaded myself to have my little wallow. His broad form took up the entire doorway, his short brown hair nearly brushing against the frame. He had towered over me since we were sixteen, but he never made me feel small.

      He wore his soldier’s uniform, unrelenting black pants and a thick black cotton shirt with a black leather jacket. It was designed to ward off the sharpest of claws yet still provide enough movement to fight an angry werewolf. I knew that he had recently come off patrol and he must have come to find me first thing.

      In the dim light of the pantry, his eyes were green flames surrounded by sensuously thick, dark lashes. His nose had been broken once, long ago, and had never quite healed straight. The slight imperfection gave him a dangerous air on an otherwise boyish face.

      At twenty-four, he was just as old as I was. Only one month separated us and I could not remember a time that I didn’t know him. His mother was our pack’s healer and had spent many long days nursing my own mother when he and I were children. I think that I spent more time in their quarters than I had in my own family’s before I was eight years old.

      But Jake had turned away from his family’s tradition and joined solider training when he was seventeen.

      It only counts as crying if you do it in your room, right? Or with a tub of ice cream in front of you? He sat down next to me and let his leg brush against my own.

      I bit the inside of my cheek to keep from responding to the contact. I was going to meet my future mate in less than an hour, I couldn’t let myself respond to another man right now. Especially not Jake.

      I’m not crying, I said it out loud this time.

      Jake grabbed my hand and entwined our fingers. I leaned my head against his shoulder and let my tawny hair brush against

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