Page 21 of A Clutch for Hutch
My mate came up behind me, his arms around me, resting his chin on my shoulder, his lips near my ear. “What magic did you weave to get all seven kids asleep at the same time?”
I turned in his arms, pressing a kiss to his lips. “I have no idea. If I did, I could sell it.”
“Bet you could.” He pulled me closer, nuzzling me deeply. “I was wondering if you have any regrets. Once upon a time, you had a penthouse. Today, you had a tomato party.”
“Once upon a time, alpha mine, I was lonely…living each day for my job, fighting my dragon to keep him inside when all he wanted to do was break free. And now? Now I wake up each morning in the arms of my the one I love more than anything, my mate, and then I walk into the other room and see our five precious babies. This is the life I was always longing for and never thought was in my reach.”
He pressed a kiss to my cheek. “Thanks to you, I do too, omega mine.”
“I love you, alpha mine. Thanks for tackle hugging me that day.”
“Thanks for being there to tackle.”
An Excerpt from A Hutch for Hoover
It all started with an accident…
Alpha rabbit shifter Hoover’s career path set in stone—he’s heir apparent of their fluffle, destined to be their alpha. He isn’t the best for the job, but thanks to being born three whole minutes before his twin, that’s how it will be. When his car is forced off the road by a runaway truck, everything changes. Now he is broken, useless to his fluffle. He can wait for his brother to challenge him or he can walk away.
Hoover walks away. He loves his brother too much to put him in that position.
It all started with a new gig…
Omega wolf shifter Grant has built a career on making the world’s best smoothies—or so his reviews say. When Animals contacts him to be part of their new community days, it’s an offertoo good to refuse. He’ll be able to network with local businesses, build his customer base, and check out the club all in one night.
Only when he scents his mate and thinks all his dreams have finally come true, the adorable bunny ignores him as if he isn’t even speaking. What’s up with that?
A Hutch for Hoover is a sweet with knotty heat MM shifter mpreg romance featuring an omega wolf shifter who makes smoothies that don’t suck, even if he is gifted at sucking ;), a rabbit shifter who loses his hearing and throws away his legacy before it can be taken from him, the night at Animals that changes everything, Karma doing what Karma does best, true love, fated mates, a sweet baby, some familiar faces from the Omegas of Animals universe, and a guaranteed HEA. Each book in this series can be read as a standalone. If you like your alphas hawt, your omegas strong, and your mpreg with heart, download A Hutch for Hoover today.
Chapter One
Hoover
“Where am I?”
My head pounded, every single part of me ached, and my voice was so quiet, I couldn’t even hear myself. What the fuck?
“Where am I?” I spoke louder, this time. At least, I thought I did, but nothing came out except low mumbles. I coughed and coughed, the pain searing in my throat.
“Where am I?” My attempt at the shout sounded muffled and far away, my throat aching as if I’d swallowed glass.
I attempted to open my eyes, and failed. Again, same results. And again, as hard as I could. They wouldn’t budge.
And then I felt a hand on mine. It was my brother, Dirk. My twin. He didn’t need to say a word for me to know it was him. He was there, and everything was going to be okay.
Static filled my ears like an old car radio, and I let darkness take me.
The next time I woke up, I felt better. Not good but on the way there. My body worked, my foot moving as I wiggled it, my head turning. There was still a lot of pain, but my rabbit was helping me heal. I still wasn’t sure where I was or what had happened, but this was an improvement.
The last thing I remembered was going into town to get some ink for my father’s printer. The kind he ordered to be delivered had been the wrong size, because, frankly, my father might be the alpha of the fluffle, but technology was not his gift. He often told me that when I took over his position, when he finally stepped down and deemed me ready, I could do all the modern upgrades that the fluffle needed.
And he was right. I could. I’d trained for the role of alpha my entire life, trained to be his replacement. It wasn’t because I was better suited for it than my brother, at least not when the decision had been made. I was older than my brother by three whopping minutes, and that was all the credentials I needed.
Growing up, I hated it. When my brother got to play, I got extra lessons. And at college, I had to take courses on how to run a business, the closest degree there was to what my new role would entail. Human politics wouldn’t do me any good, so no point in studying that. But I’d always loved technology and took as many of those courses as I could sneak in. Might as well combine the two.
I pushed myself to sit before opening my eyes, my brother once again by my side, holding my arm and mumbling something I couldn’t understand. And when I finally blinked away the fuzziness, I saw that I was in a hospital room—but not the one in our fluffle lands. No. This was a human hospital.
How had I missed that before? I’d been in a human hospital during college, visiting a human friend. It was loud and stinky. This place was quiet and, so far, my beast hadn’t scented anything much at all.
