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  Prologue

  Epilogue

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  Epilogue

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  A Weekend with The Mountain Man

  Nicole Casey

  Copyright © 2017 by Nicole Casey. All Rights Reserved.

  Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means (electronically, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the proper written permission of the copyright owner, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

  This book is a work of fiction. People, places, events and situations are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or historical events, is purely coincidental.

  Contents

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  Also by Nicole Casey

  Book Description

  Prologue

  1. Harding

  2. Eloise

  3. Harding

  4. Eloise

  5. Harding

  6. Eloise

  7. Harding

  8. Eloise

  9. Harding

  10. Eloise

  Epilogue

  Triple Trouble

  Dominating Vyolet

  Book Description

  Prologue

  1. Evan

  2. Vyolet

  3. Evan

  4. Vyolet

  5. Evan

  6. Vyolet

  7. Evan

  8. Vyolet

  9. Evan

  10. Vyolet

  Epilogue

  Protecting Maya

  Book Description

  Prologue

  1. Slade

  2. Maya

  3. Troy

  4. Maya

  5. Malcolm

  6. Maya

  7. Slade

  8. Maya

  9. Troy

  10. Maya

  Epilogue

  Pursuing Yvette

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  1. Draven

  2. Yvette

  3. Draven

  4. Yvette

  5. Draven

  6. Yvette

  7. Draven

  8. Yvette

  9. Draven

  10. Yvette

  11. Draven

  Mercury Billionaires

  The Billionaire’s Conquest

  1. Jasmine

  2. Trevor

  3. Jasmine

  4. Trevor

  5. Jasmine

  6. Trevor

  7. Jasmine

  8. Trevor

  9. Jasmine

  10. Trevor

  11. Jasmine

  12. Trevor

  13. Jasmine

  14. Trevor

  Epilogue

  The Billionaire’s Bid

  1. Lyla

  2. Preston

  3. Lyla

  4. Preston

  5. Lyla

  6. Preston

  7. Lyla

  8. Preston

  9. Lyla

  10. Preston

  11. Lyla

  12. Lyla

  13. Lyla

  14. Preston

  15. Lyla

  16. Preston

  17. Lyla

  18. Preston

  19. Lyla

  Epilogue

  The Billionaire’s Proposal

  Prologue

  1. Noelle

  2. Daxter

  3. Noelle

  4. Daxter

  5. Noelle

  6. Daxter

  7. Noelle

  8. Daxter

  9. Noelle

  10. Daxter

  11. Noelle

  12. Daxter

  13. Noelle

  14. Daxter

  15. Noelle

  The Billionaire’s Desires

  Prologue

  1. Natasha

  2. Marcus

  3. Natasha

  4. Marcus

  5. Natasha

  6. Marcus

  7. Natasha

  8. Marcus

  9. Natasha

  10. Marcus

  11. Natasha

  12. Marcus

  13. Natasha

  14. Marcus

  15. Natasha

  16. Marcus

  17. Natasha

  18. Marcus

  19. Natasha

  20. Marcus

  21. Natasha

  The Billionaire’s Past

  Prologue

  1. Damon

  2. Emilia

  3. Damon

  4. Emilia

  5. Damon

  6. Emilia

  7. Damon

  8. Emilia

  9. Damon

  10. Emilia

  11. Damon

  12. Emilia

  Epilogue

  The Billionaire’s Deal

  Prologue

  1. Cherry

  2. Cherry

  3. Dylan

  4. Dylan

  5. Cherry

  6. Cherry

  7. Dylan

  8. Cherry

  9. Dylan

  10. Dylan

  11. Cherry

  Epilogue

  Author’s Note

  Also by Nicole Casey

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  About the Author

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  Also by Nicole Casey

  Mercury Billionaires Series

  Book 1: The Billionaire’s Conquest

  Book 2: The Billionaire’s Bid

  Book 3: The Billionaire’s Proposal

  Book 4: The Billionaire’s Desires

  Book 5: The Billionaire’s Past

  Book 6: The Billionaire’s Deal

  Mercury Billionaire 6 in 1 Box Set

  The Viera Triplets Series

  Book 1: Dominating Vyolet

  Book 2: Protecting Maya

  Book 3: Pursuing Yvette

  Triple Trouble: The Viera Triplets Box Set

  Stand-Alone Novella & Short Story

  Hot Dad Next Door

  Doctor Daddy

  Book Description

  A Weekend with the Mountain Man

  One look at Eloise and my whole world f*cking turned upside down.

  My cabin in The Black Mountains is where I belong, where I have been my whole life.

  Until the blonde beauty shows up.

  Scared.

  Alone.

  And f*cking stunning.

  She is a goddess that makes my heart race.

  So I bring her back to my cabin of solitude.

  I can’t resist her innocence, or her luscious lips.

  I need to taste her, possess her, and feel her under
my chest.

  But someone else wants her forever too.

  And I’ll be damned if I let that b@stard take her from me.

  Eloise is mine now, and I'll protect her no matter what.

  Prologue

  ELOISE

  I heard them whispering but their voices carried despite their low tones.

  What were they doing out there in the middle of the night anyway?

  I wasn’t mean to hear what they were saying but how could I not? My instinct told me something was different. I had felt “it” coming for days after all.

  What “it” was, I couldn’t say for certain.

  “It” had existed somewhere in the back of my mind for as long as I could remember, knowing the day was coming but not understanding what it meant.

  But how did I know it was here?

  Perhaps it was the way my mother smiled at me almost placatingly or the way Sir eyed me with special interest.

  Maybe it was Lucy being extra bitter toward me or the panic in Jillian’s eyes.

  Whatever the reason, I knew the change was coming and it filled me with dread.

  “What are you doing here, Eloise?”

  I jumped at the sound of Randolph’s voice at my back and I whirled to smile at him weakly, skirts swirling at my calves.

  “I thought I heard something,” I fibbed, darting my dark eyes downward so he wouldn’t read the lie in them. “I just came to investigate.”

  “It was probably a coyote,” he told me, grabbing my arm and spinning me away from the tree line. “You shouldn’t be out here alone at night. We’ve already lost three sheep in two weeks.”

  But it wasn’t the coyotes which concerned me.

  Coyotes were natural creatures which behaved in predictable ways. They did not instill fear in me the way some of my human counterparts did.

  Reluctantly, I allowed Randolph to lead me back toward the house but I couldn’t resist glancing over my shoulder as if I would catch one more word.

  It wasn’t as if I understood what was being said anyway but maybe if I could hear one more thing…

  “The temperature is dropping,” Randolph told me, releasing my arm abruptly, no doubt worried that someone would see him touching me. “And you aren’t even wearing a coat.”

  “I did not intend to stay out long,” I replied quickly, wondering if he suspected that I had been trying to listen.

  I hoped not; he was apt to run back to Sir and tell him what I had been up to and a flogging would be inevitable.

  There was nothing I could do about it now.

  I hadn’t been careful enough. I was growing reckless in my mounting unrest.

  We continued the rest of the short trek in silence, Randolph leaving me at the door and turning to leave before anyone saw him.

  For as much as he prided himself on being the keeper of order, he knew that if Sir caught him on the women’s property, he would be severely punished.

  No man was allowed there.

  No man except Sir, of course.

  Without a word, Randolph disappeared into the darkness, not even the bright light of the half-moon making his lanky form visible.

  There was not a cloud in the sky on that cold October night, making the atmosphere seem even more frigid somehow.

  Or maybe that was just my heart running on ice.

  I stood on the unstable porch, not wanting to create a creak with my feet lest I arouse the attention of the others.

  As Randolph had said, the air had turned and I could see my breath coming out in short puffs of steam as I tried to make sense of what I had heard in the woods moments earlier.

  Perhaps I had misunderstood.

  “Eloise! What on God’s earth are you doing out here?”

  I cringed inwardly and turned to face Lucy.

  Was everyone meant to see me that night?

  “I am just taking some air,” I replied but she didn’t seem to accept that as an excuse.

  “You shouldn’t be out here. Come inside before you catch a chill. We can’t afford for you to get sick, not now.”

  The hairs on my arms rose at the words and I wondered what that meant.

  Why not now? What is so different than any other time?

  But as I followed Lucy back inside, grateful that the days of her cupping my ear were long over.

  The words I heard in the woods came flittering back into my mind.

  I forced myself not to think about it, even though I had been so eager to hear earlier.

  “Off to bed. It’s late and you need to be well-rested,” Lucy instructed.

  Swallowing the half dozen questions which sprung to my mind, I lowered my blonde head and hurried past her to climb the stairs to my room in the attic.

  “Eloise,” Lucy called and I paused, my heart rate escalating slightly as I turned to look at her.

  “When you rise, you are to bathe immediately. Margaret will dress you.”

  My honey colored eyebrows knit together as I stared at her with perplexed coffee eyes.

  It was not bath day and even if it was, never would I bathe in the morning.

  Alarms seemed to be sounding in my mind as I debated whether to ask the question aloud.

  “Is tomorrow different than any other day?” I asked timidly. It was not in my nature to ask questions of my elders, especially not Lucy whose tongue was sharper than the wood-splitting ax.

  “Do as you’re told, girl!” she snapped. “And do not let me catch you outside again in the middle of the night. The coyotes are on the prowl.”

  She spun toward her own room on the main floor near the kitchen, leaving me to stare after her, gulping back the lump in my throat.

  My instincts had been right.

  Something was happening, something I didn’t understand.

  I slowly took the steps up to the third floor, my mind racing as I wondered about the next day.

  “It is time.”

  That was what Sir had said in the woods and the words had filled me with dread for some inexplicable reason.

  Time for what? What does it mean?

  I would find out the next day but sleep would not come easily for me that night.

  And coyotes or not, I had the insurmountable desire to flee into the mountains.

  But why? What could I possibly be so scared of?

  I had no idea.

  1

  Harding

  The howling was driving me nearly to the edge and I flipped onto my back, pressing the pillow over my ears.

  It had been going on for ten minutes and whatever it was out there, had to be gone by now, didn’t it?

  “Rufus, if I have to come out there, I’m gonna feed you to the fucking coyotes, I swear on your life!” I roared, my ears ringing from the mutt’s ongoing diatribe.

  When my favorite hound did not stop his mournful wailing and groaning, I shoved aside my sleeping bag, throwing my legs off the bed and looking around for my slippers.

  At that moment, I couldn’t remember why I liked that damned dog so much.

  The temperature had dropped substantially in the few hours since I had gone to bed but I rather liked it that way; the fresh air filled my lungs even though the fireplace had crackled down to only a few glowing embers.

  I would put a log back on when I returned.

  Shit, I might even put Rufus on if he kept this up.

  Clayton joined Rufus’ noise and suddenly, I felt my skin prickle with worry.

  Rufus was known for his caterwauling but Clayton needed a special reason to make his voice heard.

  It had to be a persistent coyote. They had been a bigger pain in the ass than usual this autumn.

  I snatched my loaded hunting rifle from the gun rack in the living room and pushed open the screen door, my steel green eyes adjusting to the darkness.