This Isn't a Joyride -Snippet Sunday

Warning: snippet contains adult language.

Happy Easter! It's Snippet Sunday and my Weekend Writing Warriors'  blog hop!

One more snippet from Disarming Cowboys, the finale to my Lone Wolves of Shay Falls series, before moving on to my next project. 
(Synopsis and series trailer below.)

Last time, Jayel and her brother were ambushed by Solomon and his werewolf pack. After she's restrained by an annoyingly possessive beta, David, Solomon makes it clear she'd better give him intel he's after. We ended with: “Oh, you’ll help,” he said with a smile that iced his golden eyes. “His life may depend on it.”

Let's skip ahead a few sentences, where the group is arguing over whether to hold her hostage at a nearby ranch until the allied packs meet to decide her fate.

We pick up with her reply to that...

“I don’t suppose I have a say in any of this?” Jayel asked, doing her best to keep her well-honed mask of calm. “I can think of better ways to spend the night than being chained up in a barn.”

“I’m sure you can,” David purred with heavy sarcasm.

“Sorry, gorgeous,” Solomon said. “I can’t have a loose cannon running around while we’re about to launch the biggest offensive in Shay Falls history. Search her thoroughly,” he  added, glancing at David, “and make sure she doesn’t have any more tricks up her sleeve.”

“Does it have to be him?” she asked, surprised that she’d blurted out that bit of mental panic.

Another pack mate came forward, but just to hold her arms behind her while David ran his hands over every inch, leaving nothing unexplored and not hating the job, either, based on the smug grin she’d have loved to slap off his face.

“Hurry the hell up,” she snapped. “This isn’t a joyride.”

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What do you think?  

Hoppy Easter!

About Disarming Cowboys:

Jayel has hunted werewolves since the night they killed her parents and turned her brother into one of them. Now, wolves from the pack who destroyed her life want her help—and some are willing to chain her up in order to get it. One of her annoyingly gorgeous captors, David, has an erotic, animal nature that gives her the shivers. And just her luck, when Jerrod, a sexy, white-hat hero, offers to rescue her, she discovers that he, too, is a werewolf. One of them can’t claim her fast enough, while the other will do his best to fight the insatiable instinct to make a werewolf killer his mate. 

Unsettling urges stir in Jayel at the worst moment imaginable. Her long-ignored sex life should be the last thing on her mind, yet the very beings she vowed to hate have awakened her to the possibility of a life beyond revenge. But between an enemy making ultimatums on the allied packs, an unstable alpha who wants her head on a platter, and her own unfinished werewolf business, Jayel will face unforeseen consequences of her vengeance quest—and the results could end all hope of happiness with the wolves who can no longer live without her.

Lone Wolves of Shay Falls series trailer:

Read Book 1 of the series, Disowned Cowboys, now available on Amazon!

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I'm J. Rose Allister, wife, working mom, and the author of over twenty-five books. Somewhere in between one and the next, I love hanging out here on my blog and over on Twitter. Give me a comment or follow-I love chatting with people!