The Firm: Rogue

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It’s Christmas Eve and Nicollet Edenton is still trying to understand how she’d agreed to play the role of Santa’s helper; coerced into wearing a tight, velvet Santa’s helper outfit, she spent several hours handing out gifts to children in the nation’s largest department store. Things couldn’t get any worse, right? Wrong. Ready to escape, Nicollet realizes she has been locked inside of the department store with her sexy as sin coworker, Kaelyn Lionheart.
Kaelyn and Nicollet find they can no longer run away from the attraction they both fear. When the hunger burns out of control, will Nicollet be able to accept that the man she has fallen in love with is something more than a man?
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An Excerpt From: THE FIRM: ROGUE
Copyright © TUESDAY MORRIGAN, 2006
All Rights Reserved, Changeling Press, Inc.
Kaelyn strode away from the front entrance to the back of the store. All the while he walked the long length of the store, he dialed and desperately prayed for a signal.
No such luck.
He slammed his phone shut, placed it into his pocket, and grasped with both hands the intricately tangled mess of iron metal that prevented intruders from entering the glamorous, iconic department store. The same chains and bars prevented him from leaving what was
quickly becoming a nightmarish prison.
He contemplated pulling them apart with his bare hands. Then reality intruded. In order for him to do that he would need to allow the preternatural strength surging through his veins to come to the surface. And he couldn’t do that tonight without jeopardizing his existence and letting Nicollet know he was not human, at least not fully human.
Kaelyn stood staring at the locked doors, his long, broad fingers tightening into fists as he counted off the reasons why he could not be locked in the department store.
Number one — it was Christmas Eve and people only got locked in stores on Christmas Eve in Christmas movies, and last time he checked he wasn’t an actor. He was an attorney.
Number two — he’d played Santa tonight and the head security guard, Jonathan, knew this. Jonathan had watched him go into the dressing room, and had told him that he was going to walk him out of the store. It didn’t make sense that Jonathan had locked the doors without making sure he got out.
But it was the third and final reason that made his skin chill. Tonight was the night of his Rebirth.
For those in his family, Lionheart wasn’t just a last name, it was a description. All of the men and women gifted with the last name had been born with the souls and hearts of the magnificent beast. Within his human body lay the essence of the majestic beast that ruled over Africa’s savage lands. And tonight was his Rebirth, the night when a male Lionheart either changed or mated, or worse, mated and changed. It happened every five years and tonight by midnight if he didn’t mate, his human body would morph into that of a great golden lion.
Damn. He glanced at his watch. It was 10:11, five minutes had passed and he was no closer to getting the doors opened. With masculine grace, he flipped open his phone and started dialing again.
He had to get the doors open before midnight, because if he didn’t, he would be forced to change into his lion form, and he didn’t think Nicollet would appreciate that. And if he didn’t morph, his libido would spike until he felt compelled to mate with the closest female, which he also didn’t think Nicollet would appreciate.
Especially since a Lionheart who mates during the Rebirth phase mates for at least twenty-four hours nonstop. That is if he wasn’t unlucky enough to change after the mating.
His mind wouldn’t even allow him to consider how Nicollet would react to that.


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