His Sub's Submissive, Cooper McKenzie [highly illogical behavior .TXT] 📗

HIS SUB’S SUBMISSIVE

Club Esoteria

Cooper McKenzie

MENAGE AMOUR

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HIS SUB’S SUBMISSIVE

Copyright © 2010 by Cooper McKenzie

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First E-book Publication: May 2010

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Letter from Cooper McKenzie

Regarding Ebook Piracy

Dear Readers,

I love writing my books and interacting with you, my readers. I love imagining and creating the worlds and characters and situations found in my books. Writing is also my job and I work hard at it.

I get upset when my books are pirated. This means that someone has stolen my work.

It is illegal to pirate ebooks. Just because it easy to share someone else’s work for free does not make it right, legally or morally. Pirating ebooks is no different than shoplifting from a store or robbing a bank.

Please do not share this ebook with anyone. Do not send a copy of it to a forum, newsgroup, or file sharing site or auction it. Please do not give a copy of this ebook to anyone who has not bought their own copy from Siren-BookStrand or one of their legal distributor sites. Some readers think the sharing of a copyrighted ebook doesn’t amount to anything, but it does. It hurts me as a writer. It makes it difficult for me to continue writing. I have to support my family in some manner.

Please respect my hard work and creativity and do not pirate my ebooks.

With deep gratitude,

Cooper McKenzie

DEDICATION

To all who believe in happily ever afters

HIS SUB’S SUBMISSIVE

Club Esoteria

COOPER MCKENZIE

Copyright © 2010

Prologue

“Hi, what can I get you this morning?” Sloan Newman didn’t look at her customers as she approached their table. Not until they didn’t respond to her greeting. Glancing up, she groaned silently but forced her smile to remain in place. “It’s awful early for you to be up and about on a Monday morning, isn’t it? What’s going on?” Crossing her arms, she waited as the threesome looked her over in horrified amazement.

She knew what they saw. The worn black jeans she’d picked up from the thrift store were two sizes smaller than the last time they’d seen her a month earlier. Her sneakers were nearly worn out, and the left one had strawberry jelly on the toe. Her black T-shirt was brand new and bore The Java Stop logo.

Their sharp gazes would also notice her hair was long past due for a trim and her last manicure had been more than a month ago. She really needed to find time to remove what little polish still remained. They would also see the exhaustion in her eyes and the stress knotting both her shoulders and her jaw.

“I think the real question is what the hell are you doing here?” Jenna Carter, Sloan’s cousin, answered with her own inquiry.

“I’m working,” Sloan answered as her face grew warm with embarrassment.

The Java Stop wasn’t in the best part of town, but they’d needed a waitress at the same moment she needed the job. They didn’t even mind if she pulled out a notebook and wrote during slack times. She couldn’t brag about the pay, but it brought in almost enough to cover what she was no longer earning from her other job as a self-employed medical transcriptionist.

“Your cell phone’s been disconnected,” Taurus Green, her other cousin, pointed out. His voice was soft, but carried an unmistakable thread of steel. Anger followed instantly by concern flashed in his eyes when she looked into them. Then he blinked and the emotion was gone, pushed down and locked away under his famous control.

Uh oh, not a good sign. Taurus always maintained control. Always. Jenna did, too, but right now one long, burgundy fingernail tapped steadily on the menu. Even Antony, Jenna’s mate/slave, stroking her arm wasn’t calming her. Sloan had seen his touch soothe her when nothing else could.

Yep, Sloan was in trouble. She wanted to ask how they’d found her, but she knew. Mrs. Nicholas, who lived in the other half of the duplex where she rented, no doubt had been happy to spread a little gossip.

“Sloan? Why is your cell phone disconnected? Why are you working here?” Taurus prompted.

Closing her eyes, Sloan took a deep breath. Then she blinked against the tears that blurred her