Here is a new, unedited excerpt for Ryan’s Hope the fourth book in the Worlds Apart series. Don’t forget, it’s unedited and bound to have mistakes, so ignore them please:D
Ryan’s Hope
Worlds Apart Series, Book 4
by Bonnie Rose Leigh
Copyright 2010, eXtasy Books
Genre: Shapeshifter, Sci-fi, Paranormal, Series
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Excerpt:
Ryan Morgan became aware of several things at once. The first being his body hurt like a son of a bitch. The second, he had a raging hard on and the woman that landed on him had the most luscious scent he’d ever had the pleasure to smell. And third, despite the fact that every bone in his body hurt and that he wanted to have sex in the worst way, every instinct he had insisted that he was in dire trouble.
Keeping still, he feigned unconsciousness and less his senses tell him what he needed to know. It took only seconds to discover what he needed. There were four others in the room with him. Three men and the woman he’d scented earlier. One smelled of fear, the woman. The men were foul as though they hadn’t bathed in weeks, and unfortunately, it was all too reminiscent of the years he’d spent as a prisoner of the Black Rose. He easily figured out what was going on. Now he had to come up with a plan…quickly.
Somehow, the Black Rose had captured him and the woman, or the men were in the process of trying to abduct them. Either way, he had to do something to get them out of this mess. He needed to wait until they were distracted and make his move if here were to get them out of there…hopefully in one piece. But time wasn’t on their side, not according to the struggle he could hear going on around him. The sickening smell of the men’s perverse arousal and eager malevolence even now had Ryan’s beast demanding freedom. No, they were definitely short of time.
When one of the men shoved him off the cot and on to the floor, he knew that would be the only opportunity he’d have to take the men unawares. He only hoped he could shift before too much damage happened to the female beforehand. Now that his senses were more aware he could smell their strange weapons, so if he could disarm at least one, they could perhaps fight their way out—maybe. Only time would tell. Half hidden beneath the cot, Ryan palmed the injector the female placed in his pants before silently kicking off his shoes.
Above him, the bed squeaked and the men grunted, covering the sounds as he quickly out of his pants. When the woman’s pained cry ripped through the room, time abruptly ran out and Ryan allowed his beast free, embracing the change. He could do nothing about the simmering of light that heralded his change. He only hoped the men were too distracted to pay attention to the telltale flash. In mere seconds, a full-grown, enraged, Lionese male launched itself at the males attacking its mate, not giving them even a moment to fight back. It took but a second to rip out the throat of the man that had knocked the lady doctor to the cot and still rage the likes of which Ryan had never felt before filled the Lionese male.
Using Ryan’s surprise assault on the men to get away, Liana scrambled off the bed and away from her three attackers, quickly crawling away from the tumbling mass of fighting bodies. For just an instant he wondered why she didn’t just shift but his mind quickly turned back toward one of the men who’d managed to get to his feet and turn toward the woman, a strange weapon in his hand, his intent to kill her obvious. That he couldn’t—wouldn’t—allow.
Something inside Ryan snapped. With a roar of rage, he launched himself across the distance between himself and the man determined to kill the female. In one lunge, Ryan tore the man’s back open from shoulder to ass with his claws, leaving mortal furrows down the entire length of the man’s spine. Turning, he roared a challenge to the one remaining Chantrean who was injured, but still alive, halting the male in its tracks. He had no desire to let this male live either, but first they needed answers. They needed to know who had let him into the palace grounds. Who had turned Ryan and the woman scientist over to the traitors? Once he learned that, he’d have no trouble dispatching the male to hell where he deserved. No trouble at all.
