WIP IT UP WEDNESDAY Excerpt from Outcast, Supernaturals Book 2, coming soon.

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This week I’m continuing from where I left off the last week with my upcoming release, Outcast, Supernaturals Book 2, a paranormal romance.

This excerpt comes chapter 4 and picks up where last week’s post ended. In this part of the scene, we get an example of how the people of Pine Hollow treat Leigh.

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Once all of my stuff was on Ryan’s rack, I thanked the usher, took my room key from the nervous looking clerk, and turned away from the woman. To my surprise, Ryan did the same, and we started toward the elevators.

“Just wait until I tell your mother about this, Ryan Hart. She’ll be so disappointed in you,” Dave’s aunt said in a voice so low I almost didn’t hear what she said.

“She might be, but at least I’ll go to bed tonight guilt-free, knowing that I didn’t treat an innocent woman as if she didn’t exist because certain types of people say it’s all right to do so. My conscious will be clear. Can you say the same?” He all but snarled the words to the woman and caused the people around us to back up in fear. I would have disappeared into the crowd if he hadn’t had a death grip on the luggage rack that held all of my things. As it was, I ducked behind the bags of clothes to be out of the woman’s line of sight.

I had come close to touching his arm and begging him not to reply, but I could feel the anger rolling off him in waves. No one had ever stuck up for me before in front of these people besides Danielle. I had started to wonder about his motivations until I remembered that he was Dave’s best friend. Danielle must have asked him to keep an eye on me if possible.

To my surprise, the woman only huffed and stormed off. Ryan didn’t say anything to me when he turned toward the elevators again and began pulling the rack behind him. I followed, walking to the right of the rack, not saying a word. At one of the elevators, he hit the “up” button and stepped back. When the elevator door opened, he pushed the cart inside and held the door for me. I passed him and went straight for the farthest corner to cower. He waited a second for others to enter with us, but when no one did, he let the door slide and pressed the button for the floor on which the family was staying.

I was terrified to speak, but I had to tell him I wasn’t on that floor before we passed mine, so in a quiet voice I said, “I’m on the thirteenth floor if you would like to drop me off first. I mean, I’m more than willing to wait while you unload your things if you prefer. Either way is fine.”

I sounded like an idiot, but the look on his face when I told him what floor I was on nearly caused me to wet myself. His anger at Dave’s aunt paled in comparison to how mad he grew at my words. I wasn’t sure what had made him mad though. Surely, he wasn’t angry because he had to make an extra stop before going to his floor. That seemed like a petty thing to be ill about considering how nice he had been in helping me.

“Fucking bastards,” he mumbled a few seconds later, then hit the button for the thirteenth floor.

Did he mean my family…or Dave’s, I wondered. Surely not, but who could he mean? The plural “s” told me he wasn’t talking about me, so I didn’t think I was the one he was upset with, but why he would be upset on my behalf, I didn’t know.

Ryan didn’t say another word throughout the elevator ride up to my floor. He let me exit first, so I held the door while he maneuvered the cart out. I pointed him in the direction of my room, and we walked in silence. At my door, he took my key card and let himself in. I followed, pushing the cart. Before I could say or do anything, he carried my two garment bags to the closet, and while I was carrying my toiletry bag to the bathroom, he sat my two suitcases on the bed.

“Do you need help with anything else?” he asked as I removed the gift bags and set them on the small, round table by the tiny kitchen.

“No, thank you,” I said, unable to make eye contact with him. Out of the corner of my eye, though, I did see him take a hesitant step toward me with his hand reached out as if to touch me. I held my breath in anticipation of feeling his hand on my bare arm.

Before he could touch me—to my relief and disappointment—his cell went off, playing Metallica’s The Unforgiven II. A man after my heart, I thought and smiled.

Ryan cursed, said goodbye, and left. Through the door, I heard him answer the phone with a gruff, “Hello.”

I slumped in the nearest seat and let out the breath I had been holding.

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 That’s it for today. I hope you enjoyed it.

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Outcast, Supernaturals Book 2, a paranormal romance.

 Leigh Alexander has lived every day of her life feeling like an outcast amongst her family and the small-minded people of Pine Hollow, a secretive community to which her parents belong. When Danielle, Leigh’s younger sister, asks Leigh to come home for her wedding, Leigh’s torn between wanting to be there for her sister and saving herself from people who’ve despised her all of her life.

 Knowing she’ll regret her decision, Leigh gives into her sister and goes home for what she hopes is the last time. Leigh was prepared for people to ignore her, for them to shun her, for them to point out all the ways she didn’t belong all because she wasn’t a size perfect, but what she hadn’t been prepared for was falling for Ryan Hart, a man who she will soon learn knows all of the secrets her family and the town of Pine Hollow refuse to tell her.

 Revealing the truth about Pine Hollow and the rest of the supernatural world might be forbidden, but to save Leigh’s life, Ryan will tell her everything about who she is, or more importantly who she isn’t, even if it will forever change her life and the lives of every person in Pine Hollow.

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***Shifter, Supernaturals Book 1, is a paranormal romance available for $2.99. Shifter is also available on Audio @ Audible.com*** Read by Margi Stephens

Abby is a plus size woman struggling to learn to love herself despite the damage her ex did to her mentally and psychically. For reasons unknown to her, she wakes one morning with an urge to adopt another cat. What she doesn’t know is that the cat she picks is actually Dimitri Sullivan, the son of a local shapeshifter pack’s alpha who was cursed by a powerful witch into the form of a common house cat after he had a one-nightstand with her. As the months pass, Dimitri finds himself falling in love with his new owner, but there is just one problem, she doesn’t know that he is her cat and she is currently dating his brother. When the witch that cursed him discovers that by falling for Abby, he is weakening her curse, she sets out to stop this from happening by any means necessary.

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