Black Seduction

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Authors: Lorie O'Clare
Tags: Fiction, Erótica, Romance, Paranormal
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wasn’t the way of the
jaguar, never had been. No matter the century or how modern times were, Raul
would live by the same means his sire and sire before him lived. Off the land.
The strongest surviving.
    He growled again, shifting his gaze from one to another.
These were males and females he’d grown up with, hunted with, laughed with. But
it was time to leave them and their demise. When no one else approached him,
Raul turned slowly and began climbing the mountain.
    It didn’t surprise him no one followed.
     
    There were injuries. Raul worked his way up the mountain,
knowing his littermates and Angela would be a good distance ahead of him.
Anxious to catch up, he put some muscle into his efforts. Before he reached the
top of the mountain, pain lanced down his right shoulder and into his front
leg. The black-velvet sky surrounded him when he reached a wide cliff and
stared ahead of him. He took a break in his trek, sitting on the flat rock that
held just the slightest of inclines.
    A long incision ran from his chest down his front leg. There
was another puncture wound, which had hit dangerously close to his left lung.
But close didn’t matter. As it was, the wound was simply an irritation. And
other than a few additional scrapes, it appeared he would live.
    What hurt more than the lacerations and puncture wounds was
the intense heaviness weighing down inside him when he thought about Colony.
The place was no more for him and his littermates—or for Angela.
    Angela.
    The years he waited for her, allowing her to come into
maturity, enjoy her youth. He never stopped her from sniffing around other
males, or other males from sniffing around her. Not once did he interfere while
she changed from the hot teenage female into a sultry young jaguar.
    If greed and deceit hadn’t destroyed their home, Raul would
have handled matters with Angela differently, given her time to get to know
him, showered her with his kill and won her heart. As it was, he prayed with
time she would love him as much as he loved her.
    I did the right thing. Raul growled, silencing the
birds that flew overhead, and pulled his attention away from the thick
blackness in the sky. He licked his wounds, cleaning them thoroughly and
feeling the weight of exhaustion swell in his muscles. No matter his sudden
desire to curl up against the rocks and sleep for a few hours, he needed to get
to Angela.
    He finished cleaning his wounds and forced himself to stand.
He ached. His injuries burned. For a moment his vision blurred. But if he
waited much longer, slept, or even rested, it would be harder to track the
three of them.
    Raul leapt from the ledge where he took his respite and
landed easily onto the next large boulder. His muscles screamed in protest but
he didn’t slow his pace. Angela was safe with Ran and Rafe. His littermates
would kill to protect her and die ensuring her safety. In turn, he would take
care of all of them. It’s what he did. It was what he would always do.
    * * * * *
    Angela ran on red alert. The cold, night mountain air
chilled deep into her bones. She didn’t argue when Ran and Rafe stripped out of
their clothes and dropped to all fours. They would be a hell of a lot warmer in
their fur.
    And they covered a hell of a lot more distance on four legs
instead of two. Angela put speed into it. Instinct demanded it. Not only did
she run over land foreign to her, but she ran with two single males. The
knowledge prickled over her skin, keeping her tense and far from cold. Ran and
Rafe would protect her, and she would willingly fight to save their lives. They
were Raul’s littermates.
    They said he loved her. Something inside her stirred at the
thought. Was it love? She’d always admired Raul, fantasized about him. But all
this was so sudden. She wasn’t sure what it was she felt.
    When they reached a plateau lodged between two mountains,
Angela started worrying Raul wouldn’t be able to find them. Mountain creeks
swelled in places, the

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