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Mating Season
Mating Season
Mating Season
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Mating Season

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He didn't believe in the monster of the lake . . . but that didn’t make it any less real.

When Danny needs a getaway, his best friend goads him into a week-long hiking trip. Who cares if local superstitions and old wives tales warn the wary to avoid the lake once summer nights turn chilly? The trails are still pretty, the wildlife just as plentiful, and the fall colors beautiful for the lens of Danny’s digital camera. Nothing sinister could happen, not here.

Danny was wrong. Assaulted by lusty tentacles that push his body—and his sanity—to the brink, Danny is then held captive by his best friend, betrayed for the sake of science. Unable to escape and terrified of the changes in his body, Danny’s alternatives are few. He will be returned, over and over, to the monster.

But maybe his future isn’t as bleak as it originally seemed.

Warning: Violence, mpreg, and all manner of WTFery
Note: This is a standalone release of a story that originally appeared in the Bump in the Night anthology.
12,771 Digital Words

LanguageEnglish
PublisherKari Gregg
Release dateApr 5, 2019
ISBN9780463888728
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    Mating Season - Kari Gregg

    Copyright © 2013 Kari Gregg

    Cover by: Vongue, vongue.deviantart.com

    Edited by: Rachel Haimowitz

    All rights reserved.

    This book is a work of fiction. While reference might be made to actual historical events or existing locations, the names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

    Warning: This book contains strong language, sexually explicit situations, and may be considered offensive to some readers. This book is for adults only.

    About Mating Season

    He didn't believe in the monster of the lake . . . but that didn’t make it any less real.

    When Danny needs a getaway, his best friend goads him into a week-long hiking trip. Who cares if local superstitions and old wives tales warn the wary to avoid the lake once summer nights turn chilly? The trails are still pretty, the wildlife just as plentiful, and the fall colors beautiful for the lens of Danny’s digital camera. Nothing sinister could happen, not here.

    Danny was wrong. Assaulted by lusty tentacles that push his body—and his sanity—to the brink, Danny is then held captive by his best friend, betrayed for the sake of science. Unable to escape and terrified of the changes in his body, Danny’s alternatives are few. He will be returned, over and over, to the monster.

    But maybe his future isn’t as bleak as it originally seemed.

    Warning: Violence, mpreg, and all manner of WTFery

    Note: This is a standalone release of a story that originally appeared in the Bump in the Night anthology.

    12,771 Digital Words 

    Chapter One

    Still no job? Keith passed the basketball across the court behind my building.

    He’d been hounding me for a pick-up game for weeks, anything to get me out of my apartment and into the sun. So when he’d knocked on my door with a ball balanced on his hip, I’d relented. The interview last week sounded promising, I said. I curved my fingers along the textured orange surface as I lined up another warm-up shot. When it bounced off the rim, I wasn’t surprised. Over the past two months, my game—and my life—had gone to shit.

    Keith scrambled to rebound and then paused to squint at me. You know, he said, I still need an assistant for the lab at home.

    I scowled. Didn’t you hire someone?

    He didn’t want to get his hands dirty. Too much bitching and moaning. Keith grimaced. You’re good with animals, though. I’ve never even seen you flinch at handling snakes. You’d be perfect.

    I doubted that. When Keith’s family had moved to town when we were kids, we’d become thick as thieves, but where Keith was a brainy veterinarian with delusions of scientific grandeur, my aspirations were more mundane. A job making a livable wage. A wife and maybe a few kids someday. A job. A house down the road from my parents.

    A job.

    Cleaning cages sounded like a lower level of hell, but I’d done worse for a paycheck.

    It’s only for a month, a private research project, very hush-hush. Keith dribbled the ball. But if I win the grants I’m expecting, this could stretch indefinitely.

    I wrinkled my nose. I was almost desperate enough to take him up on the offer, except . . . You still live on the lake?

    Keith snorted. Since the second grade. Right next to the lab you helped me build last year, remember?

    Sure, I’d built the addition onto his house. In the summer.

    As usual, Keith ignored my misgivings. C’mon, man. Working for me, you’d be away from town gossip about Trisha and your boss. He winced. I mean ex-boss. Has she returned the engagement ring yet, at least? He finally lobbed a shot from the three-point

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