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    Dancer's Fated Mate (Arctic Shifters Book Six)
    Dancer's Fated Mate (Arctic Shifters Book Six)
    Dancer's Fated Mate (Arctic Shifters Book Six)
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    Dancer's Fated Mate (Arctic Shifters Book Six)

    By R.E. Butler

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    An invitation to spend Christmas with her cousin is too good for Gabriella Fitzpatrick to pass up. When she awakens in the early morning hours and can’t go back to sleep, she walks into the front room and faces a polar bear, who miraculously changes into her cousin’s husband.

    Declan, the second position on the sleigh team, has been waiting forever to find his fated mate. Five of his friends have already found theirs, and he knows it’s just a matter of time before he finds the one female on the planet for him. Just before dawn on Christmas Eve morning, he answers a call in the security office. One of the shifters who lives in the human world shifted in front of a human and doesn’t know what to do. Mrs. Claus tells Declan to use magic to wipe the human’s memories.

    When Ellie wakes up, she vividly remembers watching a bear become a human. Declan promises she wasn’t hallucinating, and that he can also change into animals, including one of Santa’s reindeer. He calls her his fated mate and takes her to North Pole City to show her the truth of his world. Will she be willing to stay in NPC with Declan, or will she want to stay in her world forever?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR.E. Butler
    Release dateNov 19, 2018
    ISBN9780463699591
    Dancer's Fated Mate (Arctic Shifters Book 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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      Dancer's Fated Mate (Arctic Shifters Book Six) - R.E. Butler

      Dancer’s Fated Mate

      Arctic Shifters Book Six

      By R. E. Butler

      Copyright 2018 R. E. Butler

      Dancer’s Fated Mate (Arctic Shifters Book Six)

      By R. E. Butler

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      This ebook is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination and not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locations is coincidental.

      Disclaimer: The material in this book is for mature audiences only and contains graphic sexual content and is intended for those older than the age of 18 only.

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      Editing by Hot Tree Editing

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      Special thanks to Shelley & Joyce for beta-reading!

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

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      Dancer’s Fated Mate (Arctic Shifters Book Six)

      By R. E. Butler

      An invitation to spend Christmas with her cousin is too good for Gabriella Fitzpatrick to pass up. When she awakens in the early morning hours and can’t go back to sleep, she walks into the front room and faces a polar bear, who miraculously changes into her cousin’s husband.

      Declan, the second position on the sleigh team, has been waiting forever to find his fated mate. Five of his friends have already found theirs, and he knows it’s just a matter of time before he finds the one female on the planet for him. Just before dawn on Christmas Eve morning, he answers a call in the security office. One of the shifters who lives in the human world shifted in front of a human and doesn’t know what to do. Mrs. Claus tells Declan to use magic to wipe the human’s memories.

      When Ellie wakes up, she vividly remembers watching a bear become a human. Declan promises she wasn’t hallucinating, and that he can also change into animals, including one of Santa’s reindeer. He calls her his fated mate and takes her to North Pole City to show her the truth of his world. Will she be willing to stay in NPC with Declan, or will she want to stay in her world forever?

      Chapter 1

      Declan looked at the plate of food in front of him but ignored it in favor of the beer just to the right. Taking a long drink, he settled back in the chair and glanced around the tavern. It was a typical Friday night in North Pole City. A week before Christmas Eve, his people were getting ready for the coming flight around the world. He and seven of his closest friends were quad shifters who worked directly for Santa Claus, known as SC to those who called NPC home. Quad shifters were able to shift into four animals – polar bear, arctic fox, snowy owl, and the all-important reindeer. There were normal shifters in NPC, like his father and grandfather, who could shift into three of the four animals. Only those who could shift into the reindeer were quads, and quads were rare.

      They were also gifted with a wonderful type of mate – a fated mate, the one female on the planet who was perfect for the quad, his exact match in every way. Of the eight quads on the sleigh team, five had found their fated mates, beginning with the Blitzen reindeer, Arian, who found his in a human named Charli. Four more quads had found theirs in swift succession, leaving three unmated including himself, Jack, and Vaughn. None of the females in NPC – who were all elves – were their fated mates, which meant that like the five before them, their fated mates were going to come from the human world down below the top of the world.

      What’s got you looking so serious? Vaughn asked from across the table.

      Declan inclined his head toward the other end of the table, where Roi and his fated mate, Dreama, were talking quietly, heads together and both wearing secret smiles.

      Ah. Yeah, I think about that, too. Like a lot.

      Think about what? Jack asked.

      Fated mates, Declan said. Specifically why ours are taking so damn long to show up.

      Maybe this will be our year, Jack said.

      You really think all three of us could find our mates at the same time? Vaughn asked, one brow arched comically high. Even SC couldn’t pull off that kind of magic.

      Declan laughed. I don’t think he’d want to hear you say that.

      Jack took a long drink of beer and set the bottle down. My mom asked if I wanted to have Mrs. C mate-match me.

      Declan nodded. The thought had crossed his mind before, as well. Mrs. C could perform a magical spell and match up a couple within NPC. The match would be perfect – the couple would be just right for each other – but it wasn’t the same as having a fated mate.

      She probably wants grandkids, right? Declan asked.

      Jack nodded. My dad told her I needed to wait because I’m a quad. She just doesn’t want me to be alone anymore.

      Moms, Vaughn said with a wry smile. Helpful and not helpful at the same time.

      Before the team started finding fated mates, I might’ve gone to Mrs. C. Now that five of us have found them, there’s no way in Hades I’d do a mate-match spell. Even if the match would be right, it wouldn’t be perfect.

      Plus, Jack said, I’ve always wondered what would happen to our fated mate if we mate-matched instead.

      Declan frowned. What do you mean?

      Jack’s shoulders lifted in a shrug. If we would opt for a mate-match instead of waiting, what would happen to the female meant to be ours? Would she just… I don’t know, live her life never knowing something was missing, or would she never be able to settle down because whatever male she chose wasn’t her one right mate?

      That’s both an interesting and disturbing thought, Vaughn said. He lifted his beer and said, "Let’s just commiserate on being lonely right now, and hope to crap that our fated mates are waiting for us to find them this Christmas."

      Jack and Declan lifted their beers and clinked the tops together.

      Because NPC was a protected and magically secure city, it was only open twenty-four hours each year, from dawn on Christmas Eve to dawn on Christmas Day. Half of that time, the sleigh team was racing around the world with SC delivering presents, but during the rest of the open time, their people could come and go as they pleased.

      Well, Declan said, finishing his beer and picking up his fork, "whatever this Christmas brings, let’s just hope that all three of our fated mates are waiting for us so we can all have a Merry Christmas."

      Cheesy, bro, Vaughn laughed, wrinkling his nose. Way cheesy.

      I dig it, Jack said. Cheesy or not.

      * * *

      The week passed quickly as the town prepared for the Christmas Eve run. Not only was Declan on the sleigh team, but he was also second-in-command of the security team that patrolled the city. His best friend, Rhys, was the leader of security and the Dasher position on the sleigh team. He’d been fortunate to find his fated mate, Merri, when a case of mistaken identity in the human world had some members of the security team bringing her to NPC in error.

      Along with his security work, he also had to

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