Persuasion: Shifters Forever Worlds, #3
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Mae's at it again!
Kelsey Torrent is a curvy, delicious hottie who has only loved one man Guilt pushed her away. Secrets kept her away.
She agreed to work for Mae, getting the new B & B ready for a big wedding. She did NOT agree to work with the man who broke her heart.
Bear shifter Teague Navarro has always been a one-woman kind of man. Why the hell did Mae call him work with the one woman he can't exchange a civil word with?
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Persuasion - Elle Thorne
Persuasion
SHIFTERS FOREVER WORLDS
Elle Thorne
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Contents
Persuasion
Title Page
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Epilogue
Excerpt: Invitation
Chapter 1
Afterword
The Shifters Forever Worlds
Shifter Realms
Sci-Fi Romance by Elle Thorne
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Persuasion
Kelsey Torrent is a curvy, delicious hottie who has only loved one man Guilt pushed her away. Secrets kept her away.
She agreed to work for Mae, getting the new B & B ready for a big wedding. She did NOT agree to work with the man who broke her heart.
Bear shifter Teague Navarro has always been a one-woman kind of man. Why the hell did Mae call him work with the one woman he can’t exchange a civil word with?
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Chapter One
Kelsey flinched when the phone rang, disturbing the serenity of the salon, Forester Cuts.
Chelsea, a stylist and one of Kelsey’s friends, ran the brush over Kelsey’s locks, pushing the unruliness into submission, merging the highlights with the dark lowlights. She sprayed a light mist over her creation.
The scented spray filled Kelsey’s nostrils.
Astra, another friend, sat in the empty chair next to Chelsea’s station, waiting for Kelsey.
Chelsea, Mae, Astra, and Kelsey were going to lunch after Forester Cuts. Chelsea wanted to talk more wedding talk. Yes, she was getting married to her recently acquired beau, Grant Waters.
Kelsey didn’t mind, even though weddings reminded her of what she didn’t have anymore. She had to admit, it was exciting to have a wedding at the grand reopening of the Bed & Breakfast Mae had recently acquired.
The Bed & Breakfast was the reason Kelsey was in Bear Canyon Valley. Her mother and Mae were distant cousins, so when Mae needed someone to run the B & B, Kelsey’s unused degree in Hotel and Hospitality provided an answer.
It wasn’t as though Kelsey didn’t know what her mother was up to. She’d been plotting to get her to start a job, move away, get a life, anything to keep her from being the shut-in she’d pretty much become over the last two years.
I’ll get my purse from the back,
Chelsea said, and headed away.
The phone rang again, this time not as alarming as the first time. Mae came out from the back and answered it. She spoke softly into the receiver, then hung up the phone and turned to Kelsey.
That’s the contractor I hired to redo the Bed & Breakfast.
Mae clapped her hands together in glee, her pretty face lighting up. I want it to be phenomenal for the wedding.
She turned to Astra. Maybe a double wedding? What are you and Kane waiting for?
You’re kind of rushing it a bit,
Astra laughed. We’re enjoying each other. Let Chelsea and Grant have theirs, okay?
Sure, okay, fine. There he is.
She pointed. My new contractor.
A hunk of a gorgeous man, dark-haired, dark-eyed, tall and muscular, stepped out of a pickup and ran his fingers through his hair, pulled a jacket off, and surveyed the street.
Teague.
Kelsey gasped, paled.
No way. No. It couldn’t be.
She reached for the chair’s arm to brace herself. What the hell was Teague doing here?
Mae had an innocent look on her face, like she had no idea what could be going on. Was it possible Mae had no clue? Was Kelsey’s mother behind this? How...?
Ugh.
Kelsey couldn’t tear her eyes off of him. In two years, he hadn’t changed. Well, maybe he had. If it was possible, he was even sexier.
His shoulders were even broader, his chest wider. His face was just as sexy, a predator in repose, always intent, always ready. He closed the door to the truck—the same truck he’d had back then, when they were dating. The same truck they’d first been intimate in.
A slow heat started just below her navel and radiated throughout her body. She hoped her face wasn’t giving away the emotions she still had for him.
Damn it. Shouldn’t I be over him already? Shouldn’t he not matter?
Seeing him was like a mortal wound to her soul, stabbing, piercing, searing. She hadn’t imagined that seeing him again would hurt so much.
Kelsey tried to breathe, but air didn’t want to travel all the way to her lungs. It felt like it was stuck in her throat, blocked by the largest, driest lump ever.
Mae was talking, her lips were moving, but Kelsey couldn’t concentrate on what Mae was saying.
Kelsey felt like she’d been sucked into a whirlpool of emotions. Her heart was on a spin-dry cycle, and the damn machine it was in was stuck on high.
That’s when Kelsey saw the look on Astra’s face. It was a look of recognition. Did Astra know Teague?
You know him?
she asked Astra.
Astra glanced at her. No,
she said, then her expression turned guarded. Do you?
I think...
Kelsey’s words were a whisper. She didn’t want to lie, but she didn’t want to tell the truth, either. So she settled somewhere in the middle, and turned to Mae. And that is...?
Teague. He’s the contractor who’s going to be renovating the Bed & Breakfast.
The B & B that Kelsey was supposed to run. The B & B that Kelsey was at daily, redecorating. She took a deep breath.
Great.
As if feeling her eyes on him, or maybe overhearing their conversation, Teague’s head snapped toward the salon. His eyes narrowed, like he was trying to look inside the tinted windows. Or maybe he could see through them.
Kelsey knew that as a shifter he had that supernatural vision. Maybe he could see her and was angry about her being here.
Damn him, and his shifter ways, and his heartbreaking love.
Mae stepped out from behind the counter. I’ll bring him here and introduce him.
Ah... um...
Kelsey wanted to come up with a reason to back out, but had no idea what to say.
It didn’t matter, anyway; Mae was out the door and halfway across the street, waving for Teague, before Kelsey could put a thought or an objection together.
Are you okay?
Astra put her hand on Kelsey’s arm. You look like you’ve seen a ghost.
I’m fine.
Kelsey gulped some air down.