Alpha Packed - Book 1 E-Book

Darla Dunbar

• Herausgeber: Revelry Publishing
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Book 1 of The Alpha Packed BBW Paranormal Shifter Romance Series

A BBW Paranormal Shifter Romance Story

A vampire, a werewolf and a human walk into a bar. Actually, it was more like a bookstore. Anyway, you get the gist. Suffice it to say, anytime you see this combination of the three, you can expect some angst, drama and fighting. Lots of fighting. Oh yeah, can't forget the romance. There's a lot of that too. Read on, my friend.

***Due to sexually graphic content and language that some may find offensive, this book is intended for mature readers only***

Darlene discovers an inner power that can help her werewolf boyfriend, Idris, in his fight against a rival pack. How can she hope to master such power if it frightens her so?

Darlene has led a quiet life since suffering through a terrible break-up. She wants nothing more than to spend her time in front of the TV, away from any sort of trouble. But all that goes down the drain when handsome, rugged and rough Idris comes into her life. His secret? He is a werewolf on the lookout for his missing pack leader. Darlene quickly finds herself pulled towards this mysterious man and at the same time finds herself falling deeper and deeper into the world of the supernatural.

The more she falls for Idris, the more Darlene gets swept up in inter-pack conflicts, vampires with agendas and a dark plot to bring the worst of both worlds together. As Darlene gets pulled deeper down the rabbit hole, she finds out more about herself than she ever knew possible.

Can Darlene balance her regular life with the world that Idris has introduced her to? Or will she find herself overwhelmed by the dangers facing her headfirst?

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Romeo Alpha Blood Lines Romance Series

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This book is Part One of the “The Alpha Packed BBW Paranormal Shifter Romance Series”

Book 1

Darlene has led a quiet life since suffering through a terrible break-up. She wants nothing more than to spend her time in front of the TV, away from any sort of trouble. But all that goes down the drain when handsome, rugged and rough Idris comes into her life. He is a werewolf on the lookout for his missing pack leader. Darlene quickly finds herself pulled towards this mysterious man and at the same time finds herself falling deeper and deeper into the world of the supernatural.

Book 2

Darlene finally has Idris all to herself. But with forces outside her control threatening her safety, will she be able to juggle both Idris and her newfound powers? Idris is being threatened with exile over telling Darlene about his world. With pressure mounting from both packs, he tries to protect Darlene from whatever he can. But Vivica, his old vampire girlfriend, will stop at nothing to get him back into her life – or else.

Book 3

With Idris facing a life time as an Exsul, Darlene finds herself trying to cope with her own power of seeing and connecting with spirits. Idris is tormented by his life choices and where he ends up at the risk of shoving Darlene away from him. Then Idris' maker turns up on his doorstep with a seductive promise – to lead a pack of Exsuls for the purpose of changing the future of all werewolves to come. Will Idris and Darlene be able to survive these trying times?

Book 4

Just as Darlene thinks her life has settled down, a terrible old foe returns for revenge. Darlene is still learning how to control her abilities with the spirit world when Jacob returns with an army of his own werewolf/vampire hybrid creatures. He has only one goal... get his revenge on Darlene and the packs that ruined his plan with Lucian the first time around. Darlene and Idris find themselves fighting for survival for the final time – but will they both survive?

A BBW Paranormal Shifter Romance Series

Alpha Packed

Book One

By Darla Dunbar

Copyright Revelry Publishing 2015

Table of Contents

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

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Chapter One

THIS WAS a huge mistake. Darlene should have known better, but in utter and total desperation, she agreed to this date. Now the guy in front of her—what was his name again? Steve? Mike? She couldn’t even remember now—had been talking non-stop about pro wrestling. But not even actual real wrestling. The stuff that was fake and basically just soap operas with some terrible phony fights thrown in.

“So then the Ice Cube challenged The Man to a battle!”

“Wow, really?” Darlene replied, feigning interest on every possible level.

This was her mistake. She had been spending way too much time at home lately, curled up on the couch, binge watching reality television shows because they made her feel better about her boring life. Darlene would leave for work in the mornings, do eight hours at a boring local bookstore, come home, eat and watch TV. She also stayed up far later than any normal human should, which resulted in limited forms of social communication.

That was how Darlene ended up on some free dating website. She deleted most of the messages she got. They were mostly from guys who seemed to think of her as a sexual fetish instead of an actual human being. Getting messages from guys who were into her being overweight made her feel uncomfortable. Darlene either got disgusted looks or sexual lust over her size. Both sucked. She had been about to delete her page for good when a guy who appeared to be normal messaged her. He hadn’t made any gross comments about her size and even made her laugh once or twice with his messages. It had been eight months since her last relationship blew up in her face. Why not try something different? She decided to accept his date.

The guy was so boring that Darlene wished the restaurant would go up in flames so she could flee. She was flipping through her options on how to end the date early when he finally pushed his plate away.

“That was delicious,” he said.

“Oh yeah. It was great,” Darlene lied, thinking the potatoes were too dry for her liking.

The check came and the guy—what was his name!—made an effort to search for his wallet. Oh here we go...

“Oh man. I forgot my wallet at home!” he said with fake surprise.

“Yeah, yeah, I got it,” she mumbled, slamming her debit card on the table.

It didn’t take a genius to figure out this asshole had asked her out to throw her what he thought was a “pity date” and get a free meal out of her. He would probably go home to all his idiot friends and talk about how he gave the fat girl a date because he was just so nice. Darlene felt like punching him in the face.

She paid, and they walked out of the restaurant in silence. He escorted her to her car and then glanced around, as if checking so that no one could see him, before he tried to kiss her.

“Yeah,” Darlene lifted up her hand to block him, “I don’t think so. Thanks for nothing though, seriously.”

The man scowled and before he could say something back, Darlene got into her car. She pulled out of the parking lot as quickly as she could, wanting to forget the entire terrible date.

What a mistake. What an absolute mistake. Not even just the date. The last couple years of her life had been a huge mistake. She wished she could travel back in time and re-do everything. The first thing she’d do would be to say a resounding no when Austin proposed to her.

Darlene pulled into her apartment complex five minutes later. She had picked a nearby restaurant so she could make a quick escape home if needed. She walked up to the second floor. The couple by the stairwell was fighting again. They were constantly screaming at each other over everything. Some nights, Darlene wanted to yell back at them to just break up. Other times, she wanted to tell them to make it work, because being alone was terrible.

She opened the front door of her apartment and glanced around. Her computer was on in one corner, and a few blankets were thrown on the couch for maximum comfort for those times when she drowned herself in ice cream and terrible reality shows. Everything else was clean though. Darlene couldn’t stand her apartment being messy or dirty. She wanted it to be perfect, as if she could make her apartment look like how she didn’t feel.

Darlene yanked off her high heels and plopped down in front of her computer. She deleted the online dating profile and stared out the window. That was it — she was going to become a hermit. Well, as much of a hermit as one can be if they still had to go to work and grocery shop and run errands...but other than that she was totally going to be a hermit from now on. People were not her thing. People were just terrible all around. And she’d had enough of terrible people.

She moved to the couch, wrapping herself up in a blanket. Darlene mused over what she would watch. Terrible shows about being tricked into online dating seemed like a good end to the night. It’d make her feel better at the very least.

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Her cellphone rang loudly. Darlene jolted awake, startled. She wasn’t used to her new ringtone. It used to be the theme song of an old cartoon she liked, but after everything went to hell she changed it to a normal ring in an effort to seem more adult. Now the ring was bleating loudly and annoying her. She looked at the front of the screen... her boss.

“Hello?”

“Hey, sorry, did I wake you?”

“No, Maria,” Darlene lied. “What’s up?”

“I had to fire Jacob. Can you cover his shift? You’d be working till three.”

Darlene glanced at the clock to see it was a little past eight in the morning. “That’s fine. I’ll leave now.”

She hopped in the shower, letting the warm water rush over her. She wasn’t surprised that Maria had to fire Jacob. He was constantly late and unable to help any of the customers who came into the shop. The bookstore was small and dealt with books that couldn’t be found at any of the chains. Business was slow, but the books were rare enough that Maria only needed to sell a few each month to keep the business going. Darlene liked how quiet it was and the fact that human interaction was minimal. She knew she needed to get over this slump she was in, but felt no desire to. Almost everything Darlene did as of late seemed to feed into it — her lifestyle, her job, even the stupid things she spent time watching and looking up online.

The bookstore was only a ten-minute drive to downtown and located between a coffee shop and a cheesy massage parlor. Maria hated the massage parlor. She thought it was tacky and ruined the charm of the street. Darlene usually liked to watch to see how many guys went in there. She swore it was a front for some hookers.

Darlene parked her car and headed toward the bookshop. She could already tell no one was in the store. She walked inside and waved to Maria.

“Oh, I am so glad you are here!” Maria exclaimed when she saw Darlene. “I’ll have to hire someone right away, but you and I will have to work extra in the meantime.”

“No problem,” Darlene replied, shoving her purse under the front counter.

Darlene had worked here for almost four years. Maria was a good boss. She always treated Darlene with respect and even gave her an entire month off after her father passed away three years ago. She was an older Native American woman with a bushy head of white hair that she barely cared enough to run a comb through. She wore large glasses that looked like they were from the seventies. Her fashion left a lot to be desired. Maria seemed to put on whatever she grabbed first and didn’t look twice in the mirror afterward. For instance, today she had on a blue shirt with an off-color green skirt and black shoes. Her earrings were painted octopuses she had probably made herself — she liked making crazy jewelry.

“So,” Darlene asked. “What happened with Jacob?”

Maria scowled. “He comes into work high as a kite, stinking of weed. Starts rambling to me about how he was in the woods last night and like, totally felt something, like, man,” Maria said, mimicking Jacob’s slow tone. “He was an hour late on top of it. I can’t have someone late, stinking of weed and scaring off the few customers I get each month... especially after the last incident.”

“Yeah, that was a mess.” Jacob had hit on one of their regular clients in such a crass manner that she had threatened never to return again.

“Anyway, thank you so much for covering. I’m going to head off now. One of the grandkids is having a birthday party. You’ll be okay?”

Darlene cast a sarcastic glance around the empty bookstore. “Wow, I hope I can handle it.”

Maria laughed and grabbed her purse, heading to the door before stopping. “Hey, how was your date?”

Darlene frowned. “A total mess.”

“Sorry, love. Hang in there, okay?” Maria said before leaving.

Hang in there. Darlene sighed. She has been hanging in there for way too long. When was she going to get a grip on her own life again? She walked around the shop to make sure everything was in its proper place. Darlene knew it would be, of course. It wasn’t as if they had a ton of customers come through.

Maria had the marketable books up front, which brought in some tourist traffic during the summer. The farther back in the store one went, the stranger the books became. Darlene ended up in the back again, like she always did. Maria kept the supernatural books back here — books about ghosts, werewolves, mermaids and all sorts of paranormal creatures. Darlene always felt drawn to these; she never knew why. As a kid, she liked to pretend to be a ghost hunter. Nowadays, she liked to watch terrible B-movies about ghosts.

She trailed her fingers along the spines, letting the musty old-book smell wash over her. Darlene stopped in front of one book about ghosts, pulling it off the shelf. She had just flipped it open to a random page when the tiny bell on the door jingled. Surprised, Darlene looked up.

A tall man in amazing shape walked in. He had brown eyes, a beard and scruffy hair and wore a leather jacket. Darlene found herself gawking at him. He was so handsome her knees turned to jelly.

“Hi!” she said, but her voice sounded too high pitched, like she was eleven. “Hi, sorry, back here.” She walked up front to him.

“Hello,” he said in a deep voice that sent shivers down her back.

“Hi,” Darlene repeated and then tried to get a hold of herself. “How can I help you?”

“I’m lost. I’m trying to find Roman’s Tavern.”

Her eyes widened. “I don’t know if it’s open yet.”

Was this guy a hardcore alcoholic? It was still early in the morning, and he wanted to find a bar. Roman’s Tavern was the only bar in town that Darlene hadn’t ever gone to. It brought in a wild crowd that made her uneasy. Any time she drove past it and saw the crazy partying in there, she realized how much she wanted to go and that scared her. She was never much of a partier. The fact that such an overwhelming urge to go when she drove by made her nervous. What if she went and lost her head?

The cops were there often, breaking up fights. Bike gangs were always seen there. Sometimes, if she left work at closing time, she’d drive by it and hear the thumping music and smell the cigarette smoke. She thought about going in every time. What would happen? Would she get hurt? What if she was missing out on something?

To Darlene, Roman’s Tavern represented a life she could jump into if only she wasn’t afraid. But she was too afraid. Life as a hermit was too comforting.

“Do you know where I can find it anyway?” he asked.

“It’s down the street. On the corner, kind of pushed back a bit. It has this rundown broken sign that you might see if you drive by it.”

“Thanks a lot, Miss...”

“Darlene.” She held out her hand.

He stared at it for a second and then shook it. “Idris. Thanks for the help. You guys sell books about ghosts?” He pointed to the book she was holding when he came in.

His hand was so warm that Darlene had to snap herself back to the conversation. Was he sick? Shouldn’t he be resting instead of going to some bar?

“Yes,” she managed to respond. “We have a supernatural section in the back. Ghosts, vampires, werewolves...the usual.”

“Werewolves, huh?” he replied. “Okay, well, nice to meet you.”

Before Darlene could say anything else, he was gone.

She stood there, clutching her book to her chest, thinking about the feeling of warmth from his hand. What in the world was that about?

Chapter Two

Idris stopped in front of Roman’s Tavern. It was located so far back from the road that it was easy to miss during the day. But he knew exactly how to get to Roman’s Tavern — he had been there tons of times before he left town. Today though, something had pulled him toward the bookstore and before he knew it, he was standing in front of the cute and friendly girl who worked there. In his old life, he would have shamelessly hit on her. But that was before everything changed. Instead, he lied and said he had gotten lost and needed directions.

He took a deep breath and walked toward the entrance of Roman’s Tavern. This bar was the local haunt in town for anyone who fell in the “paranormal” group, as Darlene would have called it. Idris had stopped coming to places like this. They made him feel out of control and he hated it. He loathed anything that made him remember what he was — a werewolf. If he could have, he would have lived in seclusion, but no one would let him do what he wanted. Now he was being dragged into yet another scuffle between the pack here in Waterfall Grove and his own pack in Hedge Hills.

The door opened with a creak. Roman, the leader of the pack here, owned the bar and had a place to crash upstairs. His girlfriend often kicked him out due to their constant and vicious fights, but they never broke up. Idris knew he’d be here. The bar looked terrible in the daylight. The floors were dirty, and it smelled of old cigarettes and booze. Occasionally, vampires would come into the tavern, but only if they were craving a fight. This bar was a werewolf haunt.

Mark, Roman’s second-in-command, rounded the corner as soon as Idris entered. He had a missing eye from a vicious fight with Roman six years ago, when Roman was vying for pack leader. Mark bowed to Roman after that fight and agreed to drop his claim.

“What the hell are you doing here?” Mark hissed.

“I need to speak to Roman,” Idris replied, skipping the pleasantries.

“Roman doesn’t want to speak to you or anyone else from your shitty pack,” Mark said, crossing his arms.

This was what Idris hated the most. The stupid pissing contests between the packs. It all felt so childish. It reminded him of being ten years old and fighting with his friends at the playground. In the end, all of this amounted to absolutely nothing. Idris’ patience began to wear thin.

“I need to speak to him,” he repeated.

Mark scowled. “Are you deaf? You’re not going to speak to him.”

Idris took two steps forward, inches away from Mark’s face, trying to control the urge to Change right in front of him and tear his throat out. “You are going to let me talk to him right now, do you understand? Or I’ll leave you dead on the floor of this shitty fucking bar.”

Mark shrugged. “Have it your way for now. Whatever has your panties in a twist isn’t our problem.” He moved to the side and avoided looking at Idris again.

Idris wasn’t surprised that Mark backed down, given their history. There was no one in this entire area who didn’t know about them. And now he had used fear to get what he wanted instead of taking the time to try to act like a normal human being. But you’re not a normal human being.

Idris took a metal staircase in the back up to the top. The bar’s second level overlooked the dance floor and offered a lot of dark corners where people could make out and drink. Idris opened a door off to the side, stepping into the offices and the one room that made up Roman’s makeshift bedroom.

“Roman?” Idris called out.

There was a grunting noise of surprise and then Roman stuck his head out of the office, looking down the hallway. He was an incredibly large man, with scars down his cheeks from scratches from other werewolves. Roman had scars and marks all over from head to toe, from all the battles he had gotten into. He looked like a gladiator from ancient times. His hair was messy and sticking out at different angles. He had a jacket pulled on tightly but it looked as if his shoulders were going to pop right out of it.

“What the hell are you doing here?” Roman asked, echoing what Mark had already barked at him.

“I need to talk to you.”

“Mark let you by? You didn’t kill him, did you?”

Idris ignored the jab and tried not to let it get to him. “He let me by.”

Roman looked him up and down, as if debating if he wanted to push this into a fight or just talk and get rid of Idris quickly. “Come in here.”

Idris walked into the neatly organized office. There was no way that Roman put this together himself.

“Where’s Julie?” Idris asked, trying to see if Julie had kicked him out again.

Roman shrugged. “I’m staying here tonight.”

So she had. That explained his downtrodden spirit. Normally whenever Idris had to deal with Roman, it went as well as teaching a cat how to swim. Idris sat down across from Roman at his desk.

“Why are you here?” Roman asked, leaning back in his chair.

“The pack sent me,” Idris replied. “Lucian has gone missing.”