by Jessie Lane
He’s a gambling man…
One brunette bombshell with a devious mind and a potty mouth has thrust Kent smack dab in the middle of where he never wanted to be—his family. He has spent most of his life avoiding his familial duties, especially the one that requires him to join the Ninth Circle Council—the demon society’s equivalent of judge, jury, and executioner. Now one lost bet with the little Amazon has flipped his entire life upside down. With worries about retaliation from the remnants of a rogue pack of wolves in Germany, he doesn’t have time to deal with his family, or his obsession with Chloe Demos.
And she’s the biggest risk he has ever taken…
After her mother’s death, Chloe’s world crashes down around her—a secret Amazonian heritage, aunts and a long-lost brother she never knew about, supernatural beings. With all the sudden changes, she’s decided it’s time to step out from behind her façade of an air-headed, materialistic bimbo and show her sisters she truly does love them—she only hates their wardrobes. What better way to show she cares than to help prove someone close to them is innocent of the bogus murder charges from some ridiculous council? And Chloe has no scruples about calling in the marker the demon Kent owes her in order to do just that. It’s only too bad she’s underestimated Kent’s intelligence, and his playboy charm.
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The Demon Who Loved Me
By Jessie Lane
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Other Titles From Jessie Lane
Ex Ops Series
Secret Maneuvers
Stripping Her Defenses
Mission Delivery
Sweet Agony
Sweet Recovery
Sweet Eternity
Bullets and Bluebonnets
Regulators MC Series
(co-written with Chelsea Camaron)
Ice
Hammer
Coal
Big Bad Bite Series
Big Bad Bite
Walk On The Striped Side
Big Bad Bite Returned
The Demon Who Loved Me
Star Series
(co-written with M.L. Pahl)
The Burning Star
The Frozen Star
Standalone Stories
The Alpha’s Secret Family
Kindle World Stories
Lone Wolf Wanted
Sassy and a little Bad-Assy
Bears Do It Better
Dedication
This book is dedicated to every reader who waited so long for it.
Thank you for your love and support.
Acknowledgements
I have two very special ladies I would like to thank for helping me tremendously while writing this book: Abbie Zanders and Chelsea Camaron. Thank you so much for picking up the phone when I had questions or was slightly hysterical.
I would also like to thank Shannon Webb and Kristin Campbell for all the magic you work on my stories. I love you ladies long time!
The Demon Who Loved Me
Big Bad Bite Series Book 3
by
Jessie Lane
Note to the Reader
Dear Reader,
Thank you all for patiently waiting for The Demon Who Loved Me. It means the world to me that there are such fabulous readers out there who stuck with me through my medical issues and the difficult times while I have played catch up on all my projects.
I want to give you a little fair warning. Kent and Chloe’s story backtracks a bit in the Big Bad Bite world. It was inevitable as I hinted to them already being involved in some way in Walk On The Striped Side. So, if you see some familiar material, just hang on, the new stuff is coming directly behind it! I had to tell the story the way it spoke to me, so I hope you understand.
Thank you again for being fabulous! I love and adore each and every one of you.
Sincerely,
Jessie Lane
Table of Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Note From The Author
About The Author
Connected Books
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Chapter
1
Chloe
November 2013 – Wilmington, North Carolina
“Three sisters walk into a wolf owned bar—”
“Again with the jokes, Chloe?” Elena shot a dirty look at Delta, who was giggling at Chloe’s antics. “Okay, it’s time for the rules.”
“Again, with the rules?” Chloe mocked.
“Yessss,” Elena hissed back at her. “Because, without rules, my airheaded, oldest sister tells vampires bad jokes, which nearly gets the life sucked out of us! If Aunt Thea hadn’t been there with her freakin’ piece of maple two-by-four, you probably wouldn’t be here now! And because of that, the vampire refuses to be an informant for her anymore.” Elena turned her glare to Delta, who was still giggling. “And, without rules, Delta walks around to any Other she meets and asks them inappropriate questions all in the name of ‘research.’ ”
Delta stopped giggling to sputter a defense. “I only wanted to know! It’s not like I can go check out a book at the library to learn more about them!”
“God, it’s a miracle nobody’s managed to kill you two yet.” Elena ran her hand through her hair in frustration. “No jokes. No questions. This one is important for me and you know it. Don’t fuck it up.”
“Are you ready to talk about it, Elena?” Delta spoke the question softly and with compassion, which made Chloe want to puke. While she hated that Elena had had her heart broken by some oversized alley cat who had apparently only thought of Elena as a piece of ass, she didn’t believe in women wallowing in their pity over a man. She definitely knew that their poor, departed Amazonian mother wouldn’t have approved of it, either.
Aggie Demos, who had only died a few months ago, had raised her three daughters to be strong, independent women. And in a way, Chloe and her sisters, Elena and Delta, were. In other ways, they weren’t.
For instance, her little sister Delta, who was only twenty-two, had the fierceness of a mouse. She was meek and quiet, and if a man gave her the time of day, she sputtered before excusing herself to go back to stick her nose in her books.
Elena, who was twenty-six and thought she was the wisest of the three of them, was quite the opposite of Delta. She had gone in the military and had thrived there. If it weren’t for their mother getting sick then dying, Chloe was pretty sure she would have continued her military career.
Where Elena had failed to be a strong woman was—in Chloe’s opinion—because she had fallen in love with the wrong man, Gage Ivanov, who apparently was a tiger-shifter, and the very man who broke her heart. He, of course, was the other reason Elena had chosen to end her stint in the military, and was currently in the McPhee pack run bar, named McPhee’s Pub, totally unaware that he was about to be ambushed by the three sisters.
Elena needed to learn how to make men kneel before her so she didn’t get her heart stomped on again. That was how Chloe had decided to live her life after a previous boyfriend had hit her when she was seventeen years old. Now at twenty-seven, she didn’t need a man to love, help, or even give her the time of day. She was happy with herself and loved her life. Really, both her little sisters should aspire to be more like her. Why couldn’t they understand that?
A noise behind them caught Chloe’s attention, and she turned to see their aunt Thea finally getting out of the SUV they had driven there in. The woman joined their huddle behind the vehicle.
Chloe watched as Elena took a deep breath, trying to get her shit together.
“I’m good.” Chloe snorted, but Elena ignored her as she kept talking. “Don’t worry about me. All I’m asking for, is that you two not start shit while we’re in there. I want to go in, do what we have to do, and then get the fuck out of here. Okay?”
The vulnerability in Elena’s voice both killed Chloe and grated on her nerves. As a big sister, she never wanted to see either of her sisters hurting like this. However, nor did she want to see them vulnerable to a man. Therefore, Chloe chose to keep her mouth shut as she followed Elena into the bar. It was time to confront this asshat Gage Ivanov and knock him down a peg.
As the four of them settled on bar stools, Chloe crooked her finger at the bartender, who had been watching them with interest.
The handsome man shuffled over to where she was sitting. “What can I get for you ladies today?”
She held up her hand with four fingers up. “Four beers please, and a side of Gage Ivanov.”
The bartender tensed, warily eyeing her as she asked for the man they were there to see. “What do you want with Gage?”
Already tired of this conversation, Chloe told him the truth. “That’s for me to know, and Mr. Ivanov to find out. Now, chop-chop; get us those drinks and the man, and I’ll give you a nice tip, sugar.”
Did she sound condescending? Yes.
Did she care what the bartender thought? Not one bit.
She wasn’t there to pick the man up or make him happy. She was there on a mission with her sisters. A mission he apparently figured out rather quickly as he shot her a nasty look while delivering their beers.
Mouth open, he was seconds from saying something to Chloe, when a door slammed against the wall, drawing her a
ttention to a tank of a man who was followed out by a small group of people. In no time at all, the tank of angry, muscled man was stomping in their direction, then stopping on the other side of the bar in front of Elena.
Elena picked up her beer bottle and took what looked to be a few fortifying gulps as the man snarled at her, “What the fuck are you doing here, Sergeant Demos?”
Yeah … she was pretty sure this was the infamous Gage Ivanov, breaker of hearts and overall asshat.
Chloe watched as Elena set her bottled beer back on the bar and pasted a smile on her face. Then she leaned forward and rested her elbows on the bar. “I take it you haven’t heard, Master Sergeant Ivanov, but I’m out. As for the reason as to why I’m here in this bar … well, that’s easy. I was looking for you.”
Movement out of the corner of her eye had Chloe’s attention turning to what must have been Gage Ivanov’s twin. The man looked just like him in facial features and body structure but, whereas Gage had dark hair, his brother was the opposite. His hair was white and in a mohawk, his eyes a weird arctic blue, his arms covered in tattoos, and there was a smug, panty-dropping smile plastered on his face.
While Gage was glowering at Elena, his brother was eye-fucking her. He was pretty to look at, but there was nothing there that interested Chloe. Didn’t mean she couldn’t give him a smile and a friendly finger wave.
Movement off to the side attracted her attention again—Chloe had a short attention span like that—and she turned her head to see what, or who, it was this time. Only, she wasn’t prepared for what her eyes were about to see.
The man who had shifted his weight from one foot to the other was damn near perfection. Incredibly hot in a Henry Cavill kind of way. Tall, dark, and handsome didn’t do him any justice. And the stubble on his strong jaw? Total yum factor. If she had a man of her dreams, that would be him.
Guessed it was a good thing she didn’t believe in dream men. That didn’t mean she couldn’t look at the man candy and daydream about him. He was just that damn pretty.