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    Every Miraculous Moment (Hyena Heat Six)
    Every Miraculous Moment (Hyena Heat Six)
    Every Miraculous Moment (Hyena Heat Six)
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    Every Miraculous Moment (Hyena Heat Six)

    By R.E. Butler

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    Dragon shifter Miracle Caprice has finally set herself free from her twenty-year arranged mating to an alcoholic, philandering male. As one of the few female dragons in her clan, she finally has an opportunity to make her own mating choices. With her elderly parents’ blessing and the encouragement of her best friend, she heads to a shifters-only island in Florida to participate in the supernatural version of a singles’ party. Armed with a new tattoo symbolizing her freedom, a few sexy bikinis, and the weight of her unhappy mating off her shoulders, she’s ready for anything.

    Mack Callahan, alpha of the Beyton wolf pack, has spent the last twenty-three years alone, since his mate was killed during a full moon hunt. Now that his adopted children are mated and starting their own families, he’s finally ready to focus on himself. After accepting an invitation to a shifter island with the purpose of finding his future mate, he says goodbye to his kids and steps down from his position as alpha for thirty days. He’s not sure that spending a month on an island with a bunch of unmated shifters is going to pan out, but he’s looking forward to the time away.

    When Miracle and Mack meet, sparks will fly, but they won’t be the only ones who notice. Miracle’s ex isn’t about to let his mate fly off into the sunset with a wolf shifter; he wants to make her pay. Can Mack protect Miracle, or will their life together be over before it’s begun?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR.E. Butler
    Release dateFeb 5, 2017
    ISBN9781370011087
    Every Miraculous Moment (Hyena Heat Six)
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    R.E. Butler

    A Midwesterner by birth, R.E. spent much of her childhood rewriting her favorite books to include herself as the main character. Later, she graduated on to writing her own books after "retiring" from her day job as a secretary to become a stay-at-home mom.When not playing with her kids, wrestling her dogs out the door, or cooking dinner for her family, you'll find her typing furiously and growling obscenities to the characters on the screen.Her best-selling series Wiccan-Were-Bear, The Necklace Chronicles, Hyena Heat, Wilde Creek, Were-Zoo, Arctic Shifters, Norlanian Brides, Saber Chronicles, and Ashland Pride are available now.

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    Every Miraculous Moment (Hyena Heat Six) - R.E. Butler

    Chapter One

    Miracle Caprice dipped the end of the metal blowpipe into the melted glass in the furnace, picking up a glob and drawing it out of the heat. Her best friend Tonya, a dragon shifter like herself, was sitting on a large pillow on the floor, drawing in her sketch pad.

    Miracle rolled the blob of melted glass across a metal table until it formed a cylinder, blowing air into it until a bubble formed inside the glass. She reheated the glass and moved to the tooling area to begin to shape it into the form she wanted.

    What are you making this time? Tonya asked, her charcoal pencil making scratching noises as it moved.

    A coffee mug. My dad broke his the other day and he’s mad at himself.

    Tonya’s brow arched. The one you made for him?

    Nodding, Miracle worked the opening of the mug until she was satisfied, and then moved over to the oven to let the glass set. After tapping the mug off the end of the pole, she closed the lid on the oven and rolled her neck. The tremors in his hands are getting worse. He was holding the mug and just lost his grip. I really don’t want to make another one for him because I’m afraid he’s going to be upset if he breaks it again, but he loves my glasswork so much I can’t say no.

    Her parents were both ninety and lived next door to her in their clan’s gated community. Their clan was small, with only twenty members. She and Tonya were two of the few females. Tonya’s mate had been killed during a territory battle seven years ago, before the clan had moved to the quiet Pennsylvania mountain town of Delfi. The clan had built their gated community on the outskirts of the mostly-human town. Miracle made a living there with her glasswork. Everyone wanted to buy glass items made by a fire-breathing dragon. Well, everyone except the dragons, because her abilities were nothing special when everyone could breathe fire.

    Except Tonya, who was a rare ice dragon. Her breath was downright frosty at times.

    What are you snickering at? Tonya asked, looking up once more from the sketch pad.

    "I was just thinking how cool you are."

    Miracle made a circular foot for the bottom of the mug. After marrying the two together, she worked on the handle.

    "Oh ha ha. Is this where I tell you how hot I think you are?"

    Of course not. If Tais has ever said a remotely truthful word, I’m not hot, fire abilities or not.

    Tonya tapped her pencil on the top of her sketchbook and made a face. I told you not to mention his name. You’re free.

    Not yet, she said, sighing as she put the finished mug back in the heated chest.

    She was bitter—she could admit that, even though it made her feel weak. She’d spent the last twenty years in an arranged mating with a male who’d only wanted a cook and a maid. Half the time he didn’t even come home, and when he did, he would stink of human females and booze. Miracle had been given no choice in the matter, however. According to dragon law, all females were required to be mated at age eighteen, but Miracle had never done anything right.

    First, her parents had struggled to even have her. She hadn’t been born until they were in their fifties, and her mother nearly died during the birth. Then Miracle hadn’t shifted until she was almost eighteen, when most dragons shifted at age twelve. Her scales weren’t right—they were a deep forest green splotched with brown and black, perfect for camo in the woods, but not perfect for a group of shifters who prided themselves on having perfect, single-color scales. And her eyes, one amber and one green, had forever taunted her as she’d looked in the mirror.

    To top all those physical issues, she was also barren, which made her about as desirable as a mate to male dragons as a fluffy bunny shifter would be. If there were fluffy bunny shifters.

    She decided to ask Tonya.

    Are you seriously asking me if bunny shifters exist?

    Shrugging, Miracle looked at her friend. Surely they do. And how adorable would they be?

    They’d be super weak and easily killed in their shifted forms.

    Yeah, but maybe their cuteness is their weapon. Like, a wolf shifter comes up to eat them, and they turn on the cute and he’s putty in their little paws.

    Wolves don’t ask questions first; they just eat their prey.

    "Says you. I bet wolves do ask questions, and I bet that bunny shifters do exist. With little fluffy butts and everything."

    You’re insane.

    I’m in good company.

    Tonya stood and joined her. The council has to let you free of the mating. You did your twenty. You’re like a human cop; twenty and done. You didn’t want the mating, but you did it anyway. He’s never been faithful or a good mate, even though you’re amazing. So what that you can’t have kids? And so fucking what if you have awesome eyes and cool scales?

    Tonya had never had children either, but that was because her mate had died before they’d conceived. She had never re-mated, even though she’d been pursued by a few of the unmated males.

    There was a little-known clan law that stated a dragon could leave their mating after twenty years. It was meant as a safeguard in the event of an arranged mating that didn’t work out, but twenty years was still a super-long time. Maybe the writers of the law hoped that the couple would work things out if they had to wait that long. All that twenty years had done for her was cement in her mind how unfair the clan laws were. They gave with one hand and took with the other.

    She’d petitioned the council to let her out of her mating a half dozen times over the years, but now the law was on her side. Her twenty years had been over a month ago, and they were now deliberating her freedom. Turning her attention to her friend, she said, What are you sketching?

    Topic-changer, Tonya accused.

    I’m genuinely curious.

    Tonya turned the book that she’d been hugging to her chest to face Miracle. It was a sketch of a beautiful phoenix, wings spread high.

    Oh, that’s so lovely, she said.

    Thanks. It’s for you.

    You haven’t made me a picture in years. When they were younger, Tonya used to give sketches to Miracle often.

    It’s for your tattoo.

    I don’t have one.

    "You will. This one."

    Um, no. Dragons can’t be tattooed. When we shift, the scales somehow dissolve the ink.

    You can absolutely be tattooed if you mix a special ingredient with the ink.

    That sound ominous.

    Your tears. Before Miracle could say anything, Tonya continued, "Specifically your dragon’s tears. You shift and ask your amazing best friend to collect your tears. Then you take the vial to the tattooer and he’ll mix it in. It’ll make

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