Dasher's Fated Mate (Arctic Shifters Book Two)
By R.E. Butler
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When Mrs. Claus sneaks away from the North Pole on Christmas Eve, Santa sends out a security team to bring her home before dawn on Christmas Day. The team follows the tracking beacon in Mrs. Claus’s coat to downtown New York City, finding her in the crowded streets of the human city. They hustle her into an alley and use magic to take her home to North Pole City.
Merri Blevins has had a rough night. Not only was her adorable elf costume unavailable at the costume store, forcing her to take a Mrs. Claus costume, but she’s late for a Christmas Eve party in New York City. It’s cold, it’s crowded, it’s late, and a crazy woman dressed just like Merri bumps into her and nearly sends her toppling into the gutter. Could her night get any worse?
When Rhys is called by the security team to return to his bedroom after the Christmas Eve run because of a problem with Mrs. Claus, he realizes immediately that the woman wearing the traditional red dress is not Mrs. Claus but his fated mate. She’s human. She’s pissed. And he has to take her back to her human world before dawn or she’ll be trapped in North Pole City for a year. Can Rhys convince her to give him a chance to prove his worth as a mate, or will Merri demand she be taken home immediately? Only Santa knows what the future will bring.
R.E. Butler
A Midwesterner by birth, R.E. spent much of her childhood rewriting her favorite books to include herself as the main character. Later, she graduated on to writing her own books after "retiring" from her day job as a secretary to become a stay-at-home mom.When not playing with her kids, wrestling her dogs out the door, or cooking dinner for her family, you'll find her typing furiously and growling obscenities to the characters on the screen.Her best-selling series Wiccan-Were-Bear, The Necklace Chronicles, Hyena Heat, Wilde Creek, Were-Zoo, Arctic Shifters, Norlanian Brides, Saber Chronicles, and Ashland Pride are available now.
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Dasher's Fated Mate (Arctic Shifters Book Two) - R.E. Butler
Dasher’s Fated Mate (Arctic Shifters Book Two)
By: R. E. Butler
Table of Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Excerpt from Prancer’s Fated Mate
Other Books by R. E. Butler
About the Author
Copyright
Chapter One
Rhys, lead reindeer and head of North Pole Security, shoved the shower curtain aside and grabbed the towel hanging on the hook. After rubbing his short hair a few times, he wrapped the towel around his waist and walked across the tile floor of the shared bathroom to the sinks.
Ready for tonight?
Declan, his second-in-command and the Dancer position on the sleigh team, asked as he glided a razor across his jaw.
Rhys, the Dasher position on the team, nodded as he unzipped the leather case holding his toiletries. Yeah. You?
Sure,
Dec said.
Something about the way the male was staring at Rhys made him turn away from the mirror to stare at his friend.
What’s up?
I don’t know. I feel like something is going to happen tonight.
Dec ran his razor under the thin stream of water from the faucet and returned the blade to his cheek where he finished removing the shaving cream.
Of course something is going to happen tonight. It’s Christmas Eve.
Dec splashed water on his face and dried it with a towel. No, I mean, I feel like something else is coming. You know what happened two years ago.
Rhys knew exactly what Dec was talking about. Two years earlier, the newest addition to the sleigh team – Arian, who became the Blitzen position – had fallen from the sleigh when his harness broke and plummeted to the ground. He could have died, but instead he’d woken up in the arms of his fated mate. Arian had opted to stay with his human mate, Charli, but the following year they had come back to North Pole City to live, along with their beautiful baby girl, Hope.
Rhys shook his head. No one is falling from the sleigh this year. We’ve taken the necessary precautions to ensure that each team member is safe.
Dec snorted. You know I’m not talking about that. I just have a feeling that things are going to change again.
Sullivan, the Prancer position, opened the bathroom door. SC just sent a message to the team. Everyone’s to report to the stables as soon as possible.
Why?
Rhys asked.
He’s got an announcement,
he said and stepped away from the door, letting it close.
Interesting,
Dec said. Wonder what’s up?
Rhys quickly lathered his face with shaving cream. Doesn’t matter. The boss has called and we’ve gotta answer.
I’ll see you there,
Dec said, grabbing his toiletry bag and heading out of the bathroom, leaving Rhys alone.
As Rhys quickly shaved, he thought about what Dec had said. He could admit that he hadn’t slept well the previous night. He had been a member of the sleigh team for twelve years, so he knew he wasn’t nervous about the upcoming flight. He’d woken up in his room feeling unsettled, so he’d meandered in his favorite shifted form – the polar bear – but hadn’t felt any better. Usually, when he felt off, going out in his shifted form helped center him, but it had done little to calm the strange nervous energy coursing through him. That Dec, one of the more serious males on the team, was also feeling like something was going to happen tonight made Rhys wonder about SC’s announcement and whether life around NPC might be changing. Finishing shaving with a few more swipes of the blade, he rinsed off, grabbed his bag, and headed to his room.
The unmated males shared a dormitory in North Pole City. The sleigh team all lived on one floor of the dorms, and each male had a large room with a shared bathroom and living area. As Rhys dressed in trousers and a shirt, he wondered if Mrs. C had decided it was his time to be given a mate. Males in NPC had to wait for Mrs. C to choose their mates for them. Although not as magical as her husband, Mrs. C had a special magic all her own, which allowed her to match up unmated males and females in NPC. There were more males than females in the hidden city. Shifters were always males, but the elves could be male or female. Mrs. C would use her magic to bring together a male and female. If it was his time to be given a mate, maybe that was why his beasts were feeling unsettled. Maybe they had an animal instinct about what the night would bring that Rhys wasn’t privy to.
There’s only one way to find out,
he said to himself as he opened his door and stepped out into the hall.
Yo, wait up!
Jack, the Donner position, called.
Rhys waited while Jack jogged to catch up to him.
Any idea what the announcement is?
Jack asked.
Nope.
Jack hummed. Something’s in the air tonight.
You too? Dec said the same thing earlier.
It’s Christmas Eve.
And?
With a shrug, Jack said, Interesting things happen on Christmas Eve.
* * *
Mrs. Claus’s heart was pounding a mile a minute, but she did her best to appear calm. She had a plan, and timing was of