A Painful Dilemma
Scottish
Werebear, #5
by Lorelei Moone
Publication Date: May 25th 2016
Genres: Adult, Paranormal Romance, BBW
BLURB
Henry Weston can’t take it
anymore. Lately, his job with the Alliance seems to be less about protecting
shifters from their enemies, and more about surveilling his own people and
making sure they don’t break any Alliance rules. This is not what he signed up
for, so it’s time for him to make a change. There’s only one problem: his mate
and colleague Margaret isn’t on board at all, in fact they can’t seem to agree
on anything lately.
Meanwhile, Alliance leader Adrian
Blacke’s new assistant, Gail McPherson is having similar trouble adjusting to
her job. The ideals that made her join the Alliance don’t match up with her
day-to-day reality and she yearns for something else.
When the two of them meet, sparks
fly, and they even start to hear each other’s thoughts, like only true mates
can. But Henry already has a mate whom he wants to remain loyal to, despite
their disagreements. If Henry and Gail can’t be lovers, at least they can be
allies in a new cause: forming a New Alliance. What ensues is a battle between
sense and emotion; loyalty and fate.
This paranormal romance
novella is the fifth in the Scottish
Werebear series.
For the best experience, readers are advised to read the series in order.
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Henry hadn't wanted a fight, but things had a way of escalating between him and
Maggie.
"Why
don't you trust me anymore?" Maggie folded her arms.
"Come
on; it's not like that!" Henry argued, taking a step forward to rest his
hand on Maggie's arm.
She pulled away just in time and shook
her head. "Well, there's no other explanation. First, you go on the
surveillance mission on your own, then you don't even involve me in the
interrogation of that prisoner you took. Tell me, what am I supposed to think?"
Henry
sighed. In a way, she was right. He
hadn't wanted her to come along to Gartcosh
to surveil Matt's house the other day. It's not that he didn't trust her, or
didn't think she'd do a good job. Actually, he expected she'd do
too
good a job. She would
have followed Blacke's orders to the letter, so they would have ended up with
three prisoners, not just one. Caroline Pratt was a given, she was a Son's
collaborator after all, but Maggie would have also rounded up Matt and Leah.
He
and Maggie had been an item for years; Henry knew how she functioned.
As
for the interrogation, he just couldn't risk Caroline cracking and mentioning
the pictures she'd taken. Luckily, so far she seemed to hold up quite well and
not said a word.
"Blacke gave me the order; it's only
natural that I execute it," Henry excused his decision.
He
had to come clean to her about what had happened, but with Maggie in the mood
she was in right now, it wasn't the right time. She'd always been hot-blooded,
and not particularly easy to reason with when she was ticked off.
"Did
Blacke tell you not to take your partner along on the job?" Maggie
demanded.
Henry remained quiet. Of course, he
hadn't.
"I
didn't think so."She was hurt, obviously. And Henry couldn't blame her.
But if there was one thing he had to give her credit for, she did take her work
very seriously.
"Look, I didn't mean to step on your
toes, but I can't have you questioning my operational decisions like this. When
we're on the job, I'm in charge. That's just the way things are."
"Fine!"
Maggie pressed her lips together. There was nothing agreeable about her body
language.
"Now, shall we have breakfast?
Wouldn't want to be late for work."
Maggie shrugged and marched
out of their bedroom. Although he'd pulled the seniority card on her, this
argument was far from over.
Today was going to be a long
day.
--
For
much of the day, Maggie made it a point to steer clear of Henry, which was just
as well. They weren't hiding their relationship as such, but they made it a
point to always stay professional at work.
Henry liked to think of
himself as a fair and capable leader. His agents trusted him - most of the
time, in the case of Maggie - and he ensured not to give preferential treatment
to his mate. Plus, bears weren't the sharing sort. They didn't wear their
hearts on their sleeve like wolves seemed to do. In his unit, one's private
life was just that: private.
Before lunch, Henry
interrogated his latest prisoner - Caroline Pratt - some more. Nothing came out
of it, just as he had come to expect from most of the Sons of Domnall members.
Especially those that seemed to be authority figures of some sort were
especially tight-lipped. Caroline's demeanor, as well as her role in the
attempted second kidnapping of Matthew Argyle, made Henry suspect she wasn't
just an informant, but perhaps a faction leader.
Then
again, she wasn't in the loop on a great many Sons activities at all, or she
might have already known who or what Matt was.
Either
way, it was time to close the file on her and send her and the other prisoners
across to Stirling, where the Alliance Headquarters were located. Henry wrote
up a sanitized version of the events leading up to Caroline's capture, whatever
little details he gathered during the interrogation, and that was that. Case
closed. He'd inform Blacke's people shortly.
Once that was done, he grabbed
a fresh sheet of paper and started to brainstorm about something else entirely.
He'd had an epiphany outside Matt's house that day, but he hadn't taken the
time to really think about it in depth. If he was going to set up a movement to
counter Blacke's Alliance, he couldn't just wing it.
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Author Info
Lorelei Moone is an up-and-coming
author of paranormal romance based in London. Her first book, Scottish
Werebear: An Unexpected Affair has hit the virtual shelves on Amazon on 25
September 2015, and her second, Scottish Werebear: A Dangerous Business a month
later on the 25th of October. A lover of all things sweet, and caffeinated,
when she’s not writing about sexy bear shifters and their strong-willed
curvaceous love interests, Lorelei can be found baking cookies or cakes for her
family.
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A Painful Dilemma
Henry Weston can’t take it
anymore. Lately, his job with the Alliance seems to be less about protecting
shifters from their enemies, and more about surveilling his own people and
making sure they don’t break any Alliance rules. This is not what he signed up
for, so it’s time for him to make a change. There’s only one problem: his mate
and colleague Margaret isn’t on board at all, in fact they can’t seem to agree
on anything lately. 
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