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Dante’s Dreams

By Jana Leigh

Edited By: Everyone in the Company but approved By Rose Colton

 

Artwork by:  JK Publishing

Published by JK Publishing LLC

 

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Dedication: 

To my fans, I have said this so many times to people I never realize I never actually Thank YOU!  You are all amazing, and trust me when
I say if it were not for your encouragement I would have stopped writing a long time ago.  Marie H. (who talks to every day of facebook), Julie J. (my lovely fan from England), Kiki (who I have convinced she has an amazing imagination and you can write).
Trust me when I say I know I am missing people but you all are awesome and wonderful I just don

t have enough room.

Personally:  Michelle and Caroline, I was blessed the day you two came into my life,
you
are the best editors anyone could ask for, fuck th
e rest.  Kerri, you put up
with
so much of my bullshit, I am surprised you are still with me.  And Kendra, who Kerri will have to tell about this because she is a blonde and has only made it through Book Five of the Denver Pack and I am not sure if she wi
ll make it this far, because she is a slow reader. 
Making you frustrated by calling Kerri every two seconds is what I live for, and I will always be here for you!

FINALLY: I know you are all shocked that I am this long winded, but since it went to the nex
t page I would like to thank each and every one of the Authors who publish with me.  You are all talented and wonderful women and men who have such bright futures I have no words to describe how you amaze me daily with your story

s, and your goofy questio
n
s and yes, even when you are a pain in the ass, and you get the ALL CAPS EMAILS, and you know I am pissed.  You are the best!

Jessica Lupo

Marquaylla Lorette

Cheyenne Winters

Lucy Kelly

Shelby Lynn

Darcy Morin

Selena Cross

Zach Collins

Leigh Brock

TB Smith

Dakota Lindsey

New Authors Coming Soon

Cyndi Harris

 

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Table of Contents

Email: [email protected]
4

Prologue
5

Chapter 1
10

Chapter 2
16

Chapter 3
18

Chapter 4
24

Chapter 5
30

Chapter 6
32

Chapter 7
43

Chapter 8
52

Chapter 9
62

Chapter 10
72

Chapter 11
76

Chapter 12
86

Chapter 13
94

Chapter 14
103

Prologue

 

Being a lawyer for the undead made for very interesting office hours.  However, Brin
Hedrick
was more than happy to make sure his clients were catered to.  They were the largest clients he had, and paid amazingly we
ll.  He was currently waiting on
the head of
the Italian
V
ampire Ambrosetti
C
lan
to finish off the contract he had signed with the New Council
, and send it back to him
.

Orfeo and his mates were going to be setting up a Senate in Euro
pe of the magical community of Shifters, Witches, Fae, S
idhe, and many others.
  Since many of the
C
lans and Packs
lived originally in Europe, there was a culture built
t
here
the
New Council had not tapped into yet.  With the help of the Ambrosetti Clan, they were hoping that they would have a sitting member from each of the communities on the Senate.
 

The Rogues were now trying to stop the revealing of their kind by kidnapping head families of communities in order to scare them into giving
t
h
e
m support and people.  They were going to fight the New Council all the way until the end.
  And Quin was just gearing up for the fight.  Brin knew he would never go down without playing the last card in his hand.  Fortunately
, Brin was close enough to Quin
and
Jaden to know what that last ca
rd was.  The secret was under lock and key until after the reveal. 

Brin was loc
ated in Blackpool, England
, and was a human.  But he had grown up
in
the Gevaudan Pack
with
Quin and his brothers. 
T
hey had given him
recommendations,
and he
had
obtained some wealthy clients over the last few weeks.  So far, he had traveled to Italy five times to iron out the contract for this whole thing
the New Council planned

He wanted to go to see his childhood friend
back
in
the United States before too long, to thank him and catch up.  But his plans to travel seemed to be waylaid at every turn by an emergency.

He liked Cat and Tripp, Orfeo’s mates.  They were settling in nicely at their new
compound,
and plans were underway for the New Council to build a Senate house on the grounds they just purchased.  Apparently, the Senate would be set up much like the New Council compound, where the members would all have homes on the
property,
so they could meet. 
Brin was going to be th
e attorney for the Senate, a go-
between with the New Council and the Senate.  He could retire on the amount of money that contract would give him alone, but he
would miss the
day-to-day
excitement.  Where some attorneys specialized in some areas
,
he
was
in the magical world.  Getting shifters out of trouble was fascinating and sometimes a bitch.  Especially when dealing with cats, they tended to be a little
harder
to control than some of the other shifters he worked with.

It was a large
undertaking,
and Brin was excited to be a part of it.  The Senate would have twelve members like the New Council, and from there they would be able to help the American Council with the Pack, Prides, etc. here in Europe.  They had a
large contingency over here with the Old Council compound
still erect in Northern Italy.  Most of the members were planning to move to the South.  The Senate compound was already getting requests daily for admission.  Soon they would be ready to build
the houses that would hold the members of the
Senate
they were putting together.

Brin stood and stretched
,
ready to go and ge
t a cup of coffee to stay awake
again for this late night. 
U
sually
, he just forwarded the phone to his apartment and dealt with
situations
case by case.  He had plenty of normal humans in the day hours that needed
him
also.  It didn’t hurt that he was part of a wealthy
family;
Brin could take any case he wanted to.

As he reached the door to his office
,
it slammed open and a pile of clothes fe
ll on the floor.
Stunned by the
sudden activity, Brin jumped back and looked around to see if someone was entering the room with the clothes.  Why the hell would anyone throw clothes in his
office?
Weird.  But when the clothes began to
move
he realized it was not just a pile, it was a person.

Brin knelt down next to the person and tried to find the head of
whoever
had tumbled in his doorway.  What he found took his breath away.  It was a
female
, her hair
rich and dark red in
color;
he
r
pale skin showed the bruises that marred her beauty.  She had been beaten and wh
at looked like possibl
y
torture
d
.  The dried blood from the cuts on her face told him that
she
had been running f
o
r
a while.

Sho
o
t, stop staring and do something
, he thought to himself and looked around the room for something to put under her head.  Brin had no clue if she was a
shifter
, he wouldn
'
t be able to call the normal doctor if she was. 

He gr
abbed the phone and called Quin
, his friend thankfully answered on the first ring.

“Hello?”
Quin said a little sleepily.  Brin looked at the clock and grimaced.

“Shit, sorry man, this is Brin, how can you tell if someone is a shifter?” he asked quickly.

His friend chuckled into the receiver and said, “Brin, shit you scared the crap out of
me; no one
calls this number unless it
'
s the folks calling me to tell me my little brother is in trouble again.”

“Nope, not the
parents
.
I had a person literally fall into my office unconscious a few
minutes
ago, but I don’t want to cal
l the real
docs,
unless I know
she is a shifter or something.  I can
'
t tell, and since that
'
s really the only clients I have had for about three years, thanks to you, I would guess she is
,
but I have never seen one pass out before
,
” Brin said hastily and then brushed the hair of the beauty’s face. 
Fuck
,
she was perfect
.

Quin had obviously
taken
the matter to heart and said briskly, “You can
'
t, you should know that.”

Brin
groaned
and
said, “Yea
h
, yea
h
.  I guess I didn’t make myself clear.  I
'
m pretty sure she
'
s a shifter, how do I tell what kind?”

“Well, all of us have telltale signs of our origins. 
What does she look like?”
Quin asked.

“Gorgeous, red hair, small, I don’t know
,

h
e said sarcastically.  “He
r
clothes are in
tatters,
and it looks like she
'
s had the crap beat out of her.  Let me see if I can find some ID on
her.” 
 

Quin sighed and waited while Brin put down the phone and began looking for something, anything to let him know who she was.  He felt a little foolish now that he called the Alpha of the New
Council
to ask him such a stupid question.  But Quin and h
e
were friends before anything.

When they were younger,
Brin's
family was killed in an accident
while on vacation
f
r
o
m Florida
.  He was the sole survivor of the crash, and
thankfully,
they had been in
Quin’s
father’s
territory at the time.  The Alpha had opened his Pack
and his
home to him when he needed it the most.  Sadly enough, it was probably because he had seen one
of
the Enforcers shift when he came to
try to
save his family at the crash site, but still.  Brin liked to think
that maybe Quin’s father had se
nse t
hat he could trust him.

He had never betrayed that trust, and worked hard for the shifters and magical communities since he finished college.  First, he had worked for the Pack, but as time went on Brin decided to go out on his own.  He found this qua
i
nt little town and opened up shop three years ago, and had been bu
s
y ever since.  Blackpool was one of the neutral territories set up by the magical community.  He moved here for that purpose.  Many of the people in the magical community knew who he was, and who he used to work for.  It had g
one a long way for his business, now he had the Pack contract and also Prides,
Covens,
Pecks,
and many more.

He felt a bump in the underlining of the torn jacket the girl was wearing.  Pulling out a wad of cash, his card and a passport, Brin frowned and picked up the phone.
“I found a passport.  I think it
'
s her
, can
'
t tell because half of her face is covered in
blood,
and her hair is a mess.  But I think her name is
Jaxine Pureven.”

“Fuck, Brin
,
lock your fucking doors and make sure that there is no one outside.  I am calling the nearest Enforcer
s to you and sending them.  Jax
is the daughter of the Alpha from the Credence Pack in Ireland
;
they were attacked and presumed all dead a week ago.  We have crews in the area that will be there in an hour.”  Quin yelled into the
phone,
and Brin stood up
,
pulled the small woman fully into the room and held the
phone
with his shoulder and cheek
,
and
listened to Quin yelling for his mate
,
Jaden
,
to get someone over
there. 
 

He shut the doors
and locked them before putting the bar in place that
Quin’s
father insisted on installing in case a shifter got out of control in the office.  The bar would not allow anything through it unless it was an
e
lephant, and as of yet, he had
not
heard there was a shifting
e
lephant.  Although it would be cool.

Moving around the room quickly
,
he pulled the shades and looked outside.  There really didn’t seem to be
anything
out of the ordinary.  But he
,
of course
,
could only see a little, it was dark and his office
’s
street was not a hot spot.
 

“Done, now wha
t?”
Brin said into the phone and looked down at the woman who had survived the attack he had read about in the New Council Beta’s report yesterday.  It had been Roarke and the rest of the
Rogues; they
were targeting key Packs that would make the rest fear to come out in the open and support
t
he New Council.  This is why the Senate was needed here.  The old ways were just too easy for them to fall back into if no one was here to help them defend themselves.  Orfeo was sending a troop of Vampires to help with the clean up and cover up from the humans as well. 

Devon, the Beta of the New Council,
thought there
had to be survivors in hiding.  Sadly enough, they
identified the
Alpha and his mate.  There had been no
mention
of a child
;
however, there had also been no mention of the fact
the
Rogues had
done
terrible things to the Pack before they killed them. 
Sick fuckers
, Brin wanted to kill them.  Looking down at this woman who looked like she had seen some of the abuse, he felt sick t
o his stomach.  She was tall
, and seemed so fragile right now
lying
on the floor with her face bruised and swollen and blood on her skin.

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