Interviewer fidgets
and readjusts his grip on the pen and notepad once, fanning himself with the
paper. This room was a furnace. Stunning male model Kale Andrews enters the
room and the interviewer's heart beats faster with excitement.
Kale: Hi! How are
you? Wow, it's really hot in here.
Kale pulls out the
white fabric of the fitted shirt and lets it go, blowing out an irritated
breath.
Interviewer: Yes
it is.
Kale: Let’s get
started.
Interviewer flicks the
pages of the notepad.
Interviewer: Do you
like grilled cheese?
Kale wrinkles his nose
as if the thought is unpleasant.
Kale: I'd prefer
a grilled chicken salad.
Interviewer writes in
the notepad.
Interviewer: Do
you love your fans as much as they love you?
Kale jolts as if
surprised.
Interviewer: I
mean…you must get a lot of attention and have a lot of fans, being in the spotlight
and being so beautiful and perfect. You must attract a lot of people.
Kale stills, growing
tense.
The door opens
unexpectedly and both Kale and interviewer are startled as another man, Kale
Andrew's manager and pesky brother enters without knocking.
Manager: What are
you doing, Kale?
Kale: I'm doing
an interview like you told me to do—
Manager: No, I
said it was upstairs and the woman from the magazine left when you didn’t show
up.
Both Kale and Manager spin
to stare at Interviewer. Interviewer shrugs and holds up the notepad and pen he
had been writing with and gives them a fake smile.
Interviewer:
Sorry. I thought I could take a chance and impress my editor by getting an
exclusive.
Kale relaxes while
Manager glares and ushers Kale from the room, slamming the door behind them.
Interview creeps to
the door to eavesdrop on the object of his affection.
Kale: What are
you doing here, bro?
Manager: Don’t
bro me. You know we have an appointment with Mr McCade in half an hour.
Kale: Fine, let’s
get this over with then.
The pair walk off down
the hall and out of sight.
Interviewer slams the
notepad on nearby table in anger, staring at the filled pages where over and
over he had scrawled Kale Andrews.
Interviewer: Soon
you will be mine. I'll see you soon, my love.
“Well, Mr. Andrews, it appears there is nothing we can do for
you.” Scott McCade clasped his hands together and leaned back in his chair.
“Thank—”
Mr. McCade cut him off with a wave of his hand. “I was talking
to your brother. He seems to be the one with the sense.”
Shocked, Kale sat back. What had he done to deserve such a
dismissal?
“Please. Despite what my brother thinks, this is serious. It
started with a few letters every month or so, then every week to every day, and
now he’s getting packages like this with cards saying ‘I’ll be watching over you, my love’. This
is escalating and I don’t
want to wait around to see what comes next. The hotel security where my brother
lives had a breach yesterday when an unidentified male managed to gain access
to Kale’s floor. I can’t always be with him when he’s on a campaign or at an
event, and I don’t think I’m much protection when I am. I need your company’s
help.”
Kale shot a sideways glance at Caleb. His brother was putting it
on a bit thick. Sure, he had a fan who was more than a little creepy, but that
was it. His hotel housed some very famous people—far more famous than him—and
they didn’t take security lightly.
Caleb tightened his jaw and the vein on this brother’s forehead
pulsed. His brother was really scared about this.
Mr. McCade sat forward again and placed his hands on the stack
of letters Kale guessed were addressed to him or Caleb. “I can offer several
protection options, but unless your brother agrees, there is nothing we can do
to protect him.”
“I agree,” Kale said quietly. If he’d thought all this had
really bothered Caleb so much, he wouldn’t have been so difficult.
This is book one in the Shifter Protection Specialists Inc.
series, see the full series listing
here
Never play cat and
mouse with a saber-tooth tiger.
When Kale Andrews gets disturbing mail from an obsessed fan,
his brother drags him to Shifter Protection Specialists, Inc. Kale reluctantly
agrees to have a bodyguard, but when a tall, muscular blond walks into the
office emanating power and a sexy dose of danger, Kale’s doubts about needing
the man with him twenty-four hours a day quickly disappear.
The easy babysitting job Aleksi was promised quickly changes
from strange mail to threatening deliveries, so Aleksi has to become creative
to keep his protectee out of danger. Everyone knows models are self-centered
and shallow, so why does being with Kale make him feel like he finally has a
home? Since he’s a saber-tooth tiger and naturally dominant, most people aren’t
strong enough to be with him in a relationship or even as a friend. Yet Kale
seems to calm his beast, simultaneously exciting the man in Aleksi.
Neither man expects nor wants a relationship with strings,
but as they grow closer, Aleksi realizes that Kale might be his mate. With an
obsessed fan escalating toward murder, Aleksi isn’t sure that even his tiger
can keep his mate safe.
I'm SA Welsh and I write because the voices in my head keep
making me. I love reading and I love letting the characters and stories in my
head come to life in a book. I can't function in the morning without a cup of
tea and when I'm not writing I'm reading. I have enough books to last me through
an apocalypse but don’t ask me to share them unless you are a fellow book worm
and know how to treat and appreciate a good book. It is thanks to the writers
that inspired me to put myself out there that I became an author and the
editors that make sense of my chaos that I keep writing.
