Covet

Covet Vampire Beloved Book Eight By R. E. Butler Copyright 2022, R. E. Butler Covet (Vampire Beloved Book Eight) By R. E. Butler License Notes This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author. Cover by Jacqueline Sweet This ebook is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination and not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locations is coincidental. Disclaimer: The material in this book is for mature audiences only and contains graphic sexual content and is intended for those older than the age of 18 only. * * * Edited by Missy Borucki * * * Much thanks to Joyce, Shelley, & Ann for beta-reading * * * Table of Contents Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-One Chapter Twenty-Two Chapter Twenty-Three Chapter Twenty-Four Next in the Vampire Beloved Series Contact the Author Other Books by R. E. Yearn (Vampire Beloved Book Nine) Covet (Vampire Beloved Book Eight) By R. E. Butler Valkyrie Eynd Vespertine has learned a thing or two in the last hundred years of her life, and that’s to expect the unexpected. As one of the few Valkyrie females in the Midwest, she’s had her fair share of suitors and setups by her vampire parents, but what she hasn’t found is her truemate. After a trip away with family, she returns to Cleveland and finds herself in the crosshairs of a new coven enemy—another coven! When she crosses paths with the dangerous coven master, she’s rescued by an unlikely group of heroes—five polar bears who’ve oathed themselves to the bad guy. Spike Adair is the eldest of five polar bear shifters. Fifty years ago, he and his brothers oathed to a vampire master named Dargan. The magical tattoos are evidence of their allegiance. After they come to Cleveland to take out Mishka and his coven so Dargan can take over, they run into a snag. A female Dargan kidnaps is his and his brother Wraith’s mate. Rescuing her means breaking their oath to their master, but there isn’t anything that Spike and Wraith won’t do for the redheaded Valkyrie. Breaking their oath to Dargan turns out to be easier said than done. With the Cleveland coven at their side in battle, they have a chance to walk away with their mate and start a new life with her, but a demon from the Cleveland coven’s past has other ideas. Getting Eynd to fall in love with them won’t be the only challenge, but they’re just the males for the job. Chapter One Eynd Vespertine unlocked the front door of her riverfront home and tugged her rolling suitcase behind her. She’d been invited to go on a two-week vampire cruise with her parents. She’d been wary of spending two weeks trapped on a boat with her family—even one the size of a floating city—because they were always yammering at her about settling down with a male and starting a family. But then her brother Ahnix had decided it was a great idea and nearly pestered the life out of her. She loved her family, but she was thankful to be home and without her family in tow. The boat hadn’t been nearly big enough for her to get away from her family when they started needling her about her love life. Or the lack of it. Excuse her for having standards. She didn’t know if her truemate would be a vampire or not, and she didn’t actually care. Sure it would be nice to start a family—as a Valkyrie, she had all the traits of a vampire from speed and strength to a light version of compulsion, but she could walk around in the daytime and eat actual food. She’d have to either be with a vampire male who’d been turned less than ten years—which was how long a male could sire children after being changed—or mate with a Valkyrie male. She’d never met another Valkyrie, male or female, and wasn’t going to hold out hope that it would happen. If her truemate was a shifter, she could share her immortality with him, and then he’d get to live forever like her. But if her truemate was human, she’d have to have a vampire turn him because that was the one thing she wasn’t able to do that a vampire could. “Home sweet home,” she said, kicking the door shut. She’d bought the cute waterfront home on the Vermilion River in Northern Ohio a few years earlier. It was within driving distance of downtown Cleveland where she worked for Mishka, the master of the vampire coven. She ran his daytime errands and helped out coven members when she could. She’d been offered an apartment in the vampire complex across the street from Fang so she was closer, but she preferred her privacy, and there was something very soothing about living on the water. Her phone buzzed and she checked the screen. Trust you made it home safely, her mom texted. Releasing the handle of the suitcase, she replied, Yes. Thanks for the trip. I had fun. Really? It seemed like you couldn’t wait to get off the boat. Well, that was true! But she wouldn’t hurt her mom’s feelings like that. I had a good time, I promise. Did you and Dad enjoy it? Of course, it was