by
Felicity Heaton
A snow leopard shifter in the prime of his life, the last thing on August’s mind is tying himself to one female. He welcomes a different one to his bed each night, or at least he had until five months ago when he became alpha. The duties and pressures of running his pride have his libido dead on arrival—until a trip to London to discuss business with the former alpha lands him in the path of a beautiful, bewitching tigress who awakens a passion in him that flares white hot and a need of her that consumes his every moment.
Promised at birth to a male she has never met, Maya has left her pride behind to go to the tiger alpha who is to be her mate, but she can’t leave without saying goodbye to her older brother, Talon. A stop in London at Underworld to see him one last time turns out far different, and far more dangerous, than how she had imagined it when she sets eyes on an alluring crimson-haired stranger who stirs new, unbidden feelings in her, desires that rouse her fiercest and most frightening instincts and demand she stake a claim on him—her fated mate.Will Maya be strong enough to place her pride and her family’s safety before the desires of her own heart? And will August unravel his feelings for the black-haired beauty before it’s too late and he loses her forever?
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August was finding it impossible to
concentrate on anything Cavanaugh was saying about prides and appropriate
greetings that should happen at the start of a meeting with one.
He had been doing just fine, scribbling
notes like a damn school kid in the pad opened on the round white plastic table
in front of him, until forty-three minutes ago, when he had been talking to
Cavanaugh about his failing sex life and waxing lyrical about all the females
he had bedded in those halcyon days before he had become alpha.
He had caught the most bewitching scent he
had ever smelled, an intoxicating blend of cinnamon and snow, spicy but
soothing, and had turned his head in time to see the black-haired female from
last night standing in the entrance of the kitchen.
Her striking amber eyes had been as round
as twin suns as she had stared at him.
The big male who had been with her last
night, a wall of muscle and menace with silver hair and icy eyes, had been
swift to usher her away, and August had heard him mutter about finding
somewhere else.
Ever since then, he had been wondering
where this somewhere else was that he had taken her.
“Earth calling August.”
He blinked himself back to Cavanaugh, who
sighed as he stood, the legs of his chair scraping on the tiles as he pushed it
back.
“You need some coffee?” His cousin crossed
the small distance between the table and the basic kitchen to August’s right,
plucked the jug from the machine and frowned as he lifted it. It was almost
empty. His dark grey eyes shifted back to August. “I can make a fresh pot.”
August didn’t think coffee was going to
save him.
He had tried concentrating. Really tried.
He looked down at the pad and grimaced at the doodles all over it. His fingers
had obviously wandered as much as his mind. He hadn’t taken in anything
Cavanaugh had told him.
“I think I need some air.” What he really
needed to do was clear his head and evict the dark beauty from it, but that
probably wasn’t going to happen.
Something about her had him fired up.
Which was a monumental fucking achievement
given the recent death of his libido.
He pushed his chair back, stood, and
scrubbed a hand across his tired eyes.
“Give me fifteen?” He looked to Cavanaugh,
hoping his cousin would be alright with the break, because he wasn’t going to
be much use to him if he couldn’t find his focus again.
Cavanaugh shrugged. “Go for it. I’ll check
on Eloise.”
August wanted to pick him up on his choice
of words. Check on Eloise? It was pretty crap code for fooling around with his
mate. He couldn’t hold it against Cavanaugh though. His cousin should have been
in bed, enjoying sleeping with his mate, but here he was teaching August the
ABCs of running a pride. If Cavanaugh wanted to use the break to make out with
Eloise, that was fine with him.
He nodded and walked out of the room, his
feet heavy as he tried to figure out where to go and tried not to think about
where Cavanaugh was going.
Five months without sex.
Hadn’t even thought about it.
Not a single urge.
He turned right and followed the corridor,
intending to head up the smaller staircase to the roof.
The scent of cinnamon and snow teased his
senses.
August followed it through the building,
unable to stop himself from tracking her. It led him to the stairs and then
downwards, towards the ground floor of the nightclub. Heat bloomed in his blood
and his pulse quickened, his senses sharpening as he focused on her scent,
homed in on it and ignored everything else.
Hunted her.
Five months, and now he couldn’t think of
anything else.
Gods, he wanted her.
He had wanted her the moment he had set
eyes on her.
It was just the sudden release from the
pressure of being an alpha. That was all. Cavanaugh was right and being away
from the pride was doing him good. He felt free again, energised, and back to
his old self.
A player again at last.
That was the only reason he wanted the
beautiful female who smelled of cinnamon and snow, who set his blood on fire
and had his heart beating faster whenever he saw her, and a deep urge to seize
her blazing through him.
Hell, if he headed into the club tonight,
he would probably want any number of the females who lined the bar, could
scratch this itch with his choice of them and be done with it.
Maybe he would scratch the itch a few
times.
Make the most out of being away from the
pride.
His libido was bound to take a hit again
the moment he returned.
He might as well enjoy it.
His feet carried him downwards.
Towards her.
Did she belong to the male he had seen her
with? The two were close, and the silver-haired male guarded her as if she was
precious to him. It would be just his luck if she was. The first female he had
wanted in months, and she belonged to someone else.
A door opened and closed off to his left as
the large white room came into view and he glanced there.
The male.
He slowed his pace as the male approached,
and nodded as he jogged up the stairs towards him.
The male suddenly stopped. “Have you seen
Talon? We were looking for him but we can’t find him or Sherry.”
August had met Talon once, shortly after he
had arrived. “The only time I’ve seen Talon, he was on the roof, sunbathing
with the pretty bartender.”
The male snarled at him. “That bartender is
my brother’s mate.”
Brother. Interesting.
He looked the male up and down, seeing the
family resemblance. The male shared Talon’s features, smelled similar in a way,
but the scent of the female lingered on him. He wanted to growl at that.
He held himself together, clamped down on
that need, and said, “Did you bring your mate to meet your brother?”
The male’s silvery eyebrows rose high on
his forehead and then dropped, a crinkle forming between them and a flicker of
confusion crossing his pale blue eyes. “Mate?”
“The black-haired female I saw you with.”
August tried to say that as casually as he could while the need to rip the male
apart warred with a sudden bout of nerves that the male might see right through
him and rip him apart instead.
His eyes turned a shade darker blue but shone
a little brighter around his pupils. “My sister. We’re just stopping by to see
Talon on our way through London.”
Through London?
“Where are you going?” August regretted
that question the second it left his lips.
The tiger’s face darkened, his eyes narrowing
as he frowned at August, and his voice became a low growl. “That’s none of your
business.”
August stood his ground, unwilling to let
the tiger intimidate him. The male stepped up to him, his eyes on August’s the
whole time, and then huffed and moved on, heading up the stairs.
Moody son of a bitch.
It didn’t stop August from wanting to know
where they were going.
He wasn’t sure why he needed to know.
Maybe it was just that itch to fuck she had
ignited in him.
He wanted to know her schedule so he knew whether
he had time to win her over and bed her.
He looked down to his left.
At a door in the white wall.
A door that would lead to her.
He kept his eyes locked on it as he took
the last few steps, as he turned, and as he walked towards it, drawn to it, and
to her.
He needed to see her again.
Needed her.
He reached out and gripped the steel
handle, and paused, breathed through a sudden rush of feelings, a collision of
fear and desire that was foreign and unsettling. Five months without sex wasn’t
long enough to dampen his charm, and definitely wasn’t long enough to make him
forget all the right moves to make, the ones that would ensure she fell into
his arms and into his bed for one wild night with no strings attached.
So why the hell was he on the verge of having
a panic attack?
It was just sex. That was all he wanted
from her. All he wanted from anyone.
He shoved the door open.
Froze.
Gods.
She was beautiful.
The tiger standing opposite him in the
makeshift gym lifted her head and stared at him through bright amber eyes, her
pupils dilating as she spotted him.
That feeling ignited again, fiercer than
before, sending a hot shiver over his skin.
She dropped the barrel she had been
attacking in the middle of the large space and growled at him.
Fired every damn instinct he had and
triggered a need to dominate her, to drive her into submission.
August bared his emerging fangs and growled
right back at her.
He wasn’t sure whether she would understand
the message—that he wasn’t going to submit to her.
She was going to submit to him.
She went deathly still, not a single muscle
twitching, her eyes locked on him.
His heart accelerated, his breath coming
quicker as he waited.
Waited.
Maybe this was going to be easier than he
had thought and she was just going to roll over for him.
Two hundred pounds of tiger suddenly leaped
at him.
Maybe not.
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Tamed by a Tiger is another great addition to the Eternal Mates series. I was intrigued by Maya in the previous book, so I was glad we got her book right away. I love that she was a strong female character that could rescue herself. She was determined to do what was right by her pride, even if that meant she suffered and it was admirable. August did the same thing in his own way with being alpha, giving up his freedom so that his cousin could have love. Both main characters are very honorable and strong. I think that is why they had great chemistry. The scene in the club is super sexy! As always, I love that we see so many different species within these books, and that we got to see two different types of tigers in this one. Tamed by a Tiger was wonderfully written and I am excited to read Grey's story next!
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