Free King's Property: Paranormal Shape Shifter Alpha Male Cage Fighter Werelion Romance (Shifter Fight League Book 2) by Mina Carter

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    “ C hris and Niko want out of their contracts.”
    Zara Hunter sighed at her brother’s announcement and looked up to where Kylan was framed in the doorway. His expression mirrored her own frustration and he shrugged. “They say they won’t work for a woman. So they want out.”
    She bit back the retort that sprang to mind and rubbed between her eyes. In the male-dominated world of the paranormal fight clubs, the fact that she’d been running the club for years under her father’s name didn’t matter one iota. To them, the mere fact she was female meant she was incapable of running anything other than a kitchen. No matter what she had upstairs, all they cared about was that she didn’t have the required meat and two veg between her legs.
    Logan hadn’t minded she didn’t have a dick and balls. In fact, he’d more than liked that she didn’t.
    The thought popped into her head before she could stop it and she had to pause for a moment to get herself in order. Logan Reese, the King of the Ring, owned all the fight clubs in the city and ruled them with an iron fist. So when her father had run off with the last three months’ takings, leaving her and Ky to take the rap, she’d expected both of them to end up in a shallow grave somewhere outside the city limits.
    She hadn’t expected Logan to offer her a deal; pay off their debt… in his bed.
    She hadn’t expected to agree.
    But then, Logan was hot as fuck, and so far, a bed hadn’t been involved.
    Just the desk she sat at. He’d taken her on, and across, its surface. Erotic memories of a few nights ago assaulted her and she sucked in a breath as heat rolled through her system.
    Fuck… She had it bad. Dragging another breath into her lungs, she put the memories from her mind and focused on her brother.
    “Well, technically, they don’t work for a woman. Their contract is with the Scarlet Moon.” She indicated the room around them and, by extension, the club beyond. The club their family had run for years before Daddy Dearest had fucked off with his “secretary” and put the whole shooting match at risk. Good thing Logan had seen they’d had nothing to do with it…
    Ky’s set expression told her he wasn’t convinced. For fuck’s sake, common sense was so rare around here it should be classified as a super power. With another sigh, she levered herself up from the chair in front of the desk, abandoning her reports. “Get the men together. I see we’re going to need a dose of cold, hard logic.”
    Sweeping past him, she walked through the club proper, her heels soundless on the carpet. At least they didn’t stick anymore, not since she’d appropriated some of the takings to get the place cleaned up last month. The Grandthey might not be, but at the very least their patrons didn’t need to wipe their feet on the way out rather than on the way in.
    She skirted around the cage in the center of the club and headed for the doors at the back of the room. On fight night, it was where the fighters made their entrance and led to the changing and training rooms in the basement. Now though, the banners were all down, and the walls were bare until the afternoon before fight night.
    She strode through the doors, forcing Ky to hurry to catch her up. She might not be a fully functional shifter, but she was stronger and faster than a normal human. Blood always showed somehow.
    Her heels rang out on the stairs as she headed down them. Within a minute she was walking through the training room, fighters pausing their training as she passed.
    “Gather round,” Ky bellowed, trailing in her wake as she headed for the ring against the wall at the end of the room.
    Her pace didn’t alter as she mounted the steps and turned to face them all. The Moon had a stable of fifteen fighters, and she had to admit, they weren’t the best. In fact, some were really scraping the bottom of the barrel. But they all had to start somewhere and at least, if they were good, the Moon got