Free Her Purrfect Match (BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance) (Paranormal Dating Agency Book 3) by Milly Taiden Page A

Alyssa. “Emotions can be messy.”
    Stripes sighed. “That’s true. But love won’t hurt you. I think you loving Alyssa would only make you happier. You should think about it.
    “We can’t help who we fall in love with, Gray.” Stripes slapped him on the shoulder. “Sometimes we fall and don’t even know it.”
    Not Gray. He was pride leader. He was stronger. Tougher. Love made a person weak. It messed with areas of the heart Gray never looked at.
    “I don’t.”
    “Just remember that falling in love doesn’t make you less of a man,” Stripes said. “It makes you whole.”
    * * *
    “David?” Alyssa asked, confused. “What are you doing here?”
    They’d gone into her house to pick up some of her stuff. After requesting last minute vacation time, she had gotten Gray to take her to her house. She’d inquired about her car, but apparently it needed a lot more work than just a tire replacement. They’d been inside the house for all of thirty seconds when her ex came out of her bedroom.
    David stared at Gray with a shocked expression. Gray, on the other hand, pushed her behind him, his stance pure dominance.
    “I need somewhere to stay, Lyssie.”
    She winced. Had he always sounded so whiny? She stared at him through new eyes, wondering what the hell had been wrong with her to allow this man to do whatever he did and not send him packing. “I’m sorry, David. You can’t stay in my house. We broke up over a year ago.”
    David looked so confused she almost felt pity for him. Almost. But David had cheated on her repeatedly and blamed his ‘inability to feel adequate with women’ for his inability to keep his dick in his pants.
    “Do you want me to wait until your guest leaves?” David asked, trying to see more of her without Gray in the way.
    He just didn’t learn. Looking at David now, after being with Gray, she noticed two things. The first was that David was an immature, pathetic excuse for a man. One who gave women terrible sex, no orgasms and wasn’t faithful. The second was that Gray might not talk to her as much as David had, but at least she knew whatever came out of Gray’s lips was real. He didn’t sugarcoat. He didn’t try to buy her with words. He was rough, tough, and had a great cock. That was more than enough for her.
    She grabbed Gray’s shirt and continued to peek at David around his side. “David, you need to go.”
    “But—”
    Gray, who had been quiet for the past few minutes suddenly spoke up. “You need to go. Now,” he said, his voice a mere growl.
    David paled, took a step back but did not run out the door like she’d expected. Not a good time for him to decide and grow a pair. Considering he’d been such a dick during her entire relationship with him, she wondered why he was pushing things now.
    “David, you really should go. We’ve been done for a long time now. I still don’t understand what you’re doing here.”
    “Okay, I know we ended things awkwardly—”
    She shook her head and laughed drily. “I found you with your dick in my neighbor. Not sure awkward is the right word, but okay.”
    “That was an accident.”
    She laughed. The nerve of the man to give her such a sad excuse. “Wow. You need to watch it. Falling and landing on a woman’s pussy will definitely get you into trouble. Some women won’t be receptive to a stranger’s penis up in their business.”
    David flinched but gave her a pleading look. “I just need to lay low for a while.”
    She snorted. “What did you do, sleep with your boss’s wife or something?”
    He scrunched his face in a grimace. “I didn’t really think he’d find out.”
    Holy shit. What a fucking idiot! Thank God she’d finally decided to give David the boot before he’d brought that kind of bullshit into her life. “I’m sorry for your stupidity, David. But you should go before Gray decides to take a bite out of your ass.”
    David ran backward to the back door, tripping on his own feet and landing on his