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An Ellora’s Cave Romantica Publication

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Ringo’s Ride

ISBN 9781419923630

Edited by Helen Woodall

Photographer and cover art by Les Byerley

Electronic book Publication August 2009

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R INGO ’ S R IDE

Regina Carlysle

Dedication

To author Fran Lee, who understands the value of supporting her fellow writers.

You are a doll and I treasure your friendship and generosity.

Ringo’s Ride

Chapter One

Ringo Ramone raced through the hot Texas night as if someone had lit a fire under

his ass. He dodged rocks and prickly cactus, ignoring the heat that singed the pads of

his paws, too furious to notice. Rage beat at him until he practically shook with it. He

sniffed the ground in an effort to pick up the trail of the rogue lycans who’d stolen his

mate.

His mate!

Fuck!

He’d always suspected Rayne Poteet might be the one but he hadn’t wanted that.

For years he’d watched her from a distance, drawn to her sweetness, her beauty. He’d

slunk around in the shadows, fighting off the feelings that twisted tightly in his chest

every time she so much as spoke to him. He wasn’t an emotional man and didn’t plan

on changing for any she-wolf, not even Rayne. Besides, she was too good for the likes of

him. He was a motherless son of a rat-bastard traitor and that’s all he’d ever be.

The huge black wolf stopped and panted. How much ground had he covered since

leaving the ranch house to hunt down the men who’d taken her? Tonight they’d had a

barbecue for the town of Cloverfield. It had been a happy time and, Lord knew, he’d

seen too few of those in his many years. His alpha Joe McKinnon, and Quinn, the

daughter of their former alpha, were celebrating their Consummation Ceremony when

it all went down. Like a bunch of raving idiots, the males of the pack had been lured by

rogue lycans to the south pasture while others had circled back to the ranch to steal

away their unmated females.

Rayne!

She was his predestined mate. He hadn’t known it until tonight and then, in one

instant of stupidity, she’d been taken before he’d had time to absorb it all. Spotting a

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