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    Hunt Mates
    Hunt Mates
    Hunt Mates
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    Hunt Mates

    By Mary Hughes

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    A theft. They think it's me. I don't care what any of them think—except for my new boss. Big, strong and handsome...and totally out of an iota's league.

    Iota wolf shifter Emma Singer is desperate to keep her new job. Needing the money for her mother, she was ready to take the first thing that came along and was thrilled to be hired instead at Dr. Gabriel Light's store. Then a pricey high-tech phone is stolen—and it looks like Emma's the thief.

    Emma decides to investigate herself to clear her name and is shocked when Dr. Light steps out of the night to help her. As she spends time together with this big, brilliant man, she begins to long for things an iota can't have. If he wanted her too, he's show it, right?

    Wizard prince Gabriel Light has big trouble. His friend's phone prototype has been stolen, bad enough. But a chance touch of his new employee lights a bonfire of need in him. Problem? Witch + shifter = stupidly huge taboo. If the Witches’ Council finds out, they’ll have his and Emma's heads. Literally.

    He should run as far away from the sweet temptation that is Emma as he can. But when the mysterious thief returns to target Emma, only a wizard prince can truly protect her...

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher7th Octave Publishing
    Release dateFeb 1, 2018
    ISBN9781940958194
    Hunt Mates
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    Mary Hughes

    I write wickedly fun romantic adventures and steamy paranormal romances, stories that crackle with action and love. Challenging, smart alpha men--and women not afraid of a challenge. Oh, do the sparks fly when he meets THE woman guaranteed to infuriate and inflame him most.In real life I'm an author, a spouse and mother, a flutist, a computer geek, and a binge-TV-watcher of The Flash, Elementary, NCIS, and Wynonna Earp.~Mary HughesNewsletter: http://www.maryhughesbooks.com/Newsletter.htmlWebsite http://www.maryhughesbooks.com/Book Bub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/mary-hughesBlog http://maryhughesbooks.blogspot.com/Group Blog http://www.lustwithalaugh.com/Facebook http://www.facebook.com/MaryHughesAuthorTwitter http://www.twitter.com/MaryHughesBooks

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      Hunt Mates - Mary Hughes

      PUREST DELIGHT "The way Mary Hughes finally brings her characters together—She has a way of having [Gabriel and Emma] start off at a slow burn and then bring them together explosively. It’s always wild and fun." ~ Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews on Mind Mates

      "Non stop action and intense chemistry between Daniel and Zoe! An exciting story which has me not so patiently waiting to find out what happens next." ~Jeanne M. on Prophecy Mates

      "What a brilliant, action packed, paranormal adventure and romance this proved to be—a real page turner with great characters and plenty of twists and turns in the enthralling plot meant that I didn’t want to put down till the very end!" ~Splashes Into Books on Mind Mates

      Top Pick! I loved the book! […] Be ready for a wild and adventurous story. ~Night Owl Reviews on Heart Mates

      Hunt Mates

      Her whole future is endangered by a theft. When her new boss finds out, will he condemn her or save her?

      Iota wolf shifter Emma Singer has just snared a coveted job at Gabriel Light's Choice Buy store when a pricy high-tech phone is stolen—and it looks like Emma's the thief. How can she convince her new boss she’s innocent?

      Wizard prince Gabriel Light has bigger problems than the fact that his store has been robbed. A chance touch of his new hire lights a bonfire of lust in him. But witch + shifter = stupidly huge taboo. If the Witches’ Council finds out, they’ll have his head. Literally.

      Yet the more Gabriel uncovers about the crime, the more unsettled he is. Especially when the thief returns and seems to be deliberately targeting Emma…

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      This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locale or organizations is entirely coincidental.

      Hunt Mates

      Copyright © 2017 by Mary Hughes

      ISBN: 978-1-940958-19-4

      Print ISBN: 978-1-940958-20-0

      Cover by Scott Carpenter

      Edited by Jennifer Zamora

      All Rights Are Reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Hunt Mates

      Pull of the Moon

      Mary Hughes

      Dedication

      To Gregg, as they all are.

      Thank you to Jennifer Zamora for her gentle guidance editing and proofing. All mistakes are my own.

      Table of Contents

      Dedication

      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

      Sneak Peeks

      About Mary Hughes

      More Titles

      Chapter One

      Iota wolf shifter Emma Singer was a brand-new hire at the Muskegon Choice Buy store. She hadn’t even met her new boss Dr. Light, when Brant tried to kill her for the first time.

      Can I help you, Emma? Brant said brightly.

      Emma paused squaring up boxes of phone accessories to consider the teenage boy. She and Brant were the only two trainees, wearing salmon-pink polo shirts instead of Choice-Buy blue.

      He stood there beaming, a big industrial metal push broom in one too-big hand. As eager as a puppy.

      All hands and feet, he was as coordinated as a puppy, too. She’d only been on the job a week, but she’d already cleaned up after him several times.

      Well…

      Please?

      Emma heaved a sigh. The store manager, who’d been out of state when she was hired, returned tomorrow. Today needed all hands on deck getting the store spiffed up for his return.

      Okay. She gestured at a fallen headset blister pack. Why don’t you pick that up and find its proper place—

      Thanks! He scooped up the headset and rammed it onto an already full rod. The clip holding the rod to the display board broke loose. A dozen headsets tumbled onto the floor, one after the other like lemmings.

      The boy’s face fell. Awww. I didn’t mean to do that.

      I know you didn’t. Emma shuffled through the mess of blister packs to pat the teen’s arm gently.

      Ms. Singer!

      Shoulders tightening, Emma leaned out from behind Brant to see a sturdy blonde woman staring in horror at the mess.

      Carol Palmer was the Assistant Manager. With silver hairs glinting among the blonde, in her Choice Buy blue polo shirt, she looked more like a professional golfer than a store manager. But she’d hired Emma, and had, in fact, put her professional reputation on the line for doing it. I shouldn’t be hiring you, Emma. Dr. Light likes to screen all applicants himself. But he’s away right now.

      "Dr. Light’s coming back tomorrow. Carol briefly covered her eyes. We don’t have time for messes or mistakes."

      I’m so sorry, Ms. Palmer. I’ll clean it up right away.

      Good. Heaving a stressed sigh, the woman squared her shoulders then trotted toward the next section of the store.

      With a grimace, Emma picked up the rod, set it back into its clip, and hooked it to the display board. Fishing the nearest headset from the pile, she slid it carefully onto the rod.

      I can help! Brant scooped up an armful of blister packs and hustled the heap toward the rod as if he’d shove them all on at once.

      Wait! With a panicked yip, Emma barred him with her arm, half-shifted for strength. Her inner wolf was showing, but she was desperate to stop the boy, not only from another messy disaster, but from enthusiastically impaling himself on the rod.

      He tottered back a step, his gaze bewildered.

      Why don’t you let me reload the headsets? She willed herself to move her arm away. You can hold them for me if you want.

      That would help you? Brant asked eagerly.

      A twinge of sympathy hit her. The teen only wanted to be useful—just like her.

      We’re only trying to please people…because nobody really wants us.

      She put a lid on the thought. Yes, she told the boy firmly. That will help me a lot.

      Giving him an encouraging smile, Emma took a blister pack from the pile in his arms and threaded it onto the rod.

      So, Emma, do you think Dr. Light will give us our blue shirts when he comes back?

      Make us real employees? We can hope. Emma had urgently needed work to provide for her widowed mother, and she’d moved out of state to find a job. She’d been on the verge of accepting a menial, minimum wage position because it was available. Carol had offered her a six-month temp-to-hire contract with Choice Buy. Clean, well-run, good pay, plus her affinity for tech? Emma had snapped it up.

      Loading the last blister pack onto its rod with great care, she considered what to do next. Face product—which she’d learned meant bringing packages to the front of the shelf and lining them up without gaps—in the phone aisle? See if she could bang out a few laptop setups? She’d been trained on those.

      But no, she’d probably better make sure Brant didn’t get into any more trouble. Thanks again, Brant. You really helped… She looked up to see the teen’s back disappearing around the corner of the display, the broom in one hand.

      Curious and a little worried, she followed.

      The shelves here were cut out, leaving an open area of floorspace. It was where the store displayed the big-ticket items.

      Carol was fussing around the display table, digging into a Russian-stack-dolls’ worth of boxes, tape, and packing peanuts. The Assistant Manager was fretting to herself. Careful, Carol! Be careful.

      She extracted a thin blade of plastic, like a credit card the size and shape of a phone, and set it gently on

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