Bunny’s agility and ‘fast on her feet’ thinking. Team C.O.T.A. (Covert Operations Task Agency) was on a need to know basis only, and the heart of it was secrecy. They were sent out to save shifters being persecuted for crimes they didn’t commit. Humans were trigger happy, and often times shot before asking questions. Matt had been on enough missions that there were few others he trusted in the field with the most important jobs. He was one of their leaders and Bunny was one of their top agents. He just didn’t expect Bunny to fall for him. That wasn’t in the plan.
The night of the last red moon, he knew he’d run to Anna the way he needed her. He knew he’d need to be inside of her. He forced the sheriff to lock him down in the county jailhouse. A caged bear on a red moon wasn’t a pretty site. It was the most painful thing he had to put himself through… not being able to seek out his mate, his Anna, and letting her believe he was with Bunny instead. There were few people that could be trusted, and only another C.O.T.A. officer would understand. Under lock and key, Matt roared and tore at the bars of the cage, but they wouldn’t budge. His body needed to be free, but in this rare moment, it was now or never. If he was going to pull off the dangerous mission, he had to let her go. If she ever took him back, he swore he’d leave the agency and settle down, but there was no chance in that. She spit nails every time she saw him.
He saw the heat and lust in her eyes, but her stubborn will was strong, and she cut him out of her life. The way he needed her was unlike anything he’d ever felt before. At times it scared him, the powerful driving force that led him to one woman, one fox. Bears didn’t mate for life, but she was the only one that could tame him, and was the only one that he wanted. Anna Brentwood was his chosen one. It pained him not to be by her side.
Matt Stryker was larger than life. He was one of the town hero’s, a natural leader, and someone who was often in charge. And while his work life was thriving, his personal life was empty. He tried to move on, but it was pointless.
Bunny was always in his face, and if it wasn’t for the fact that she was a damn fine agent, he’d have happily sent her hopping away. He didn’t need the distraction. She covered as a newscaster when she wasn’t on a mission. She had the look and fit the part, but it was her mind that brought her to the agency. As an intelligence officer, they needed her on the team.
Only after their mission, she got a little too close. Bunny played her part well in driving Anna away, but now that Matt was alone, there was no reason she couldn’t move in. He was insanely desirable, powerful, had a strong sense of self, and more than anything was drop dead sexy. She was a woman after all. Most men fell at Bunny’s feet, she usually had her pick, but it was Matt that made her heart pitter patter. She knew where his loyalties were, but it didn’t mean she couldn’t try to persuade him. She knew exactly where he’d be running on the next red moon, but her plan was to intervene…and claim him for her own. She had every intention of seducing him.
T he way he made the rescues look so effortless … Bunny sighed. Yeah, Matt Stryker was the man she wanted by her side. If only she could make see how incredible they could be together.
Everybody was on edge. The red moon was coming. Relationships could change on a dime, or seal a bond that others didn’t anticipate. In a shifter town, a red moon brought heartache, seduction, and primal sex to the masses, bodies in motion … biology at work.
Back in the older days there was rarely cross-breeding, but as they were fenced into Mountain View Crest and it was a smaller community, it became a matter of survival and need.
The red moon cast a magical spell on them, and no matter how much they wanted to deny their animal, it came out. The humans were right…they’d always be beasts,
Kennedy Ryan, Lisa Christmas