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    The Alpha's Christmas Mate (Uncontrollable Shift Book One)
    The Alpha's Christmas Mate (Uncontrollable Shift Book One)
    The Alpha's Christmas Mate (Uncontrollable Shift Book One)
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    The Alpha's Christmas Mate (Uncontrollable Shift Book One)

    By R.E. Butler

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    When Sugar Pierce is asked to be her adopted sister’s Maid of Honor for her Christmas Eve wedding, she gladly steps into the role. As the only snow leopard in the wolf pack, she’d do anything for her adopted family.

    Alpha lion Maddox Hayes is happy to stand up as Best Man for his only sibling’s marriage to a she-wolf. As alpha, he’s bound by pride laws to mate a lion female, but he’s never met one who makes his beast purr. When he enters the foyer to walk the Maid of Honor down the aisle, he comes face-to-face with the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen in his life. When she promptly shifts into a snow leopard, he knows that he’s in the presence of his true mate. Her uncontrollable shift is proof of that.

    Maddox is eager to make Sugar his mate, even if it means relinquishing his position and power as alpha. As he prepares to step down as alpha, usurpers disregard the pride laws and attempt to take control, forcing Maddox to defend his people and his mate. Will the new couple get to spend their first Christmas together, or will their mating be over before it starts?

    *This book was part of the Once Upon a Midnight Solstice boxed set. If you already own the boxed set, please do not purchase this book!*

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR.E. Butler
    Release dateJan 2, 2017
    ISBN9781370201785
    The Alpha's Christmas Mate (Uncontrollable Shift Book One)
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    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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      The Alpha's Christmas Mate (Uncontrollable Shift Book One) - R.E. Butler

      The Alpha’s Christmas Mate

      (Uncontrollable Shift Book One)

      By R. E. Butler

      Copyright 2017 R. E. Butler

      The Alpha’s Christmas Mate (Uncontrollable Shift Book One)

      By R. E. Butler

      License Notes

      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author.

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      This ebook is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination and not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locations is coincidental.

      Disclaimer: The material in this book is for mature audiences only and contains graphic sexual content and is intended for those older than the age of 18 only.

      * * *

      Editing by Jennifer Moorman

      * * *

      Heartfelt thanks to:

      Joyce for reading & being the best bestie ever

      Gwen Knight for hooking me up with an amazing set of authors in the Once Upon a Midnight Solstice boxed set

      and my Aunt BL and my husband, BB, who I adore.

      Table of Contents

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      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

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      The Alpha’s Christmas Mate (Uncontrollable Shift Book One)

      By R. E. Butler

      When Sugar Pierce is asked to be her adopted sister’s Maid of Honor for her Christmas Eve wedding, she gladly steps into the role. As the only snow leopard in the wolf pack, she’d do anything for her adopted family.

      Alpha lion Maddox Hayes is happy to stand up as Best Man for his only sibling’s marriage to a she-wolf. As alpha, he’s bound by pride laws to mate a lion female, but he’s never met one who makes his beast purr. When he enters the foyer to walk the Maid of Honor down the aisle, he comes face-to-face with the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen in his life. When she promptly shifts into a snow leopard, he knows that he’s in the presence of his true mate. Her uncontrollable shift is proof of that.

      Maddox is eager to make Sugar his mate, even if it means relinquishing his position and power as alpha. As he prepares to step down as alpha, usurpers disregard the pride laws and attempt to take control, forcing Maddox to defend his people and his mate. Will the new couple get to spend their first Christmas together, or will their mating be over before it starts?

      Chapter 1

      Maddox nursed a beer and half-listened to his pride males as they joked about how different life was going to be for his brother, True, in two days. Lions normally didn’t get married. Mating was enough to make their beasts happy, and it was damn permanent. You could toss a wedding ring. You couldn’t toss out a mating scar. But wolves were different than lions, and True’s little she-wolf was very insistent that they get married according to human standards so she could have his last name.

      If I didn’t say it before, True said to Maddox, thanks for standing up with me.

      I think it’s my job, being your only brother and all.

      I would’ve been happy to be the Best Man, Vario said. Rai’s sister is gorgeous. I think when you’re Best Man, you automatically get to fuck the Maid of Honor. It’s like a law or something.

      Maddox rolled his eyes. Vario spent most of his life thinking with his dick. It was hard not to want to punch him square in the face every time he spouted off one of his insane thoughts.

      As if her pack would let your mangy ass near her, True said.

      She’s not a wolf, though, Vario said.

      Maddox let out a growl to silence the chatter and stood. He raised his beer bottle. It’s my brother’s bachelor party. Let’s not forget that this male here, he said, clapping his brother on the shoulder, was once such a pussy that he cried at a haunted house.

      True’s cheeks flamed scarlet. They had real chainsaws! And I was seven, you dick.

      That’s Alpha Dick to you, little brother, Maddox said.

      True subtly tilted his head and exposed his neck in submission, but he also extended his middle finger, which just made Maddox chuckle. Only his brother, who he loved dearly, could get away with that kind of half-assed respect.

      Vario stood, and the others around the table joined in, lifting their drinks. When True stood, his beer raised high, Maddox touched his beast and roared loudly. The others joined in swiftly; the sound of their combined roars shook the whole bar.

      Congrats, Maddox said, clicking the neck of his bottle against True’s.

      The bar was empty, which was one of the perks of owning the place. Mane was a shifter-only bar, one of the few in the area. The pride worked at the bar, and Maddox spent most of his nights dealing with either bar business or pride business, which encompassed his whole life, and that was fine with him. He wasn’t mated, because among the other laws of their kind was a little known one – the alpha was required to mate a lioness, or abdicate his position.

      Someone turned up the music louder, and a few of the males

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