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    Escaping From Fate
    Escaping From Fate
    Escaping From Fate
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    Escaping From Fate

    By Hazel Gower

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    Lisa Lurman
    Lisa doesn’t remember her birth parents, but she had always hoped that they loved her. Her foster parents, Helen and Bruce, said they loved her, but she didn’t believe them; they ruled over her with an iron fist and she feared them. When she moves out, Helen and Bruce aren’t happy with her, they wanted her with them and ready to marry a man from their church, and be a good obedient housewife.
    With Lisa’s newfound freedom, her friends take her out to celebrate her twenty-first birthday. They take her to Hot Stuff, a renown shifter stripper bar.
    Imagine her surprise when she’s kidnapped by one of the guards who claims she’s his mate. Has she left one gilded cage for another?

    Dax White
    A mate wasn’t something Dax had been looking to find any time soon. He wanted to work on his trust issues first. So, imagine his surprise when he finds her at the strip club he works for. He takes no chances she’ll run, kidnapping her in front of her friends just as the show is about to start.
    Lisa Lurman is not what he expected. She doesn’t leave him when given the chance, but stays and quickly gains his trust. Lisa is sweet, kind, caring, and loving. Everything he could have hoped for in a mate and more. He just has to keep her safe from her crazy foster parents.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHazel Gower
    Release dateNov 29, 2019
    ISBN9780463387979
    Escaping From Fate
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    Hazel Gower

    I'm a mother of four amazing children. I started writing down my story ideas in high school, and never really stopped. Writing, I have to say, is my salvation. After I've gotten all the kids in bed and have cleaned up, I sit at my computer or sometimes a notebook with a pencil and relax, write, and escape.I love to hear from any of my readers, so feel free to send me an email and like me on Facebook.

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      Escaping From Fate - Hazel Gower

      Escaping from Fate by Hazel Gower

      Escaping from Fate

      By Hazel Gower

      Copyright © 2019 Hazel Gower

      Escaping from Fate, by Hazel Gower

      Escape – 2

      All rights reserved.

      All rights reserved. In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the author or publisher constitutes unlawful piracy and theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like to use the material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained from the author.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual events, locales, or persons living or dead, are coincidental.

      Edited by Susan Child

      Cover by Jess Buffett Graphic Designs

      MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR

      THIS BOOK IS set in Australia. In Australia the legal age to drink, vote, get married and so on is eighteen. The characters speak Australian English, so if you see the word ‘arse’ instead of ‘ass’ it is because that’s how we say it in Australia where the book is set. If you find a word you haven’t heard before, look it up or message me I’d be happy to talk to you.

      Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy my book.

      Hazel Gower

      Dedication

      To my fans, thank you so much for all your support.

      Escaping from Fate

      Chapter one

      Lisa

      Tugging the dress down, Lisa pulled it enough so it covered her arse better. She shot a glare at her friends for talking her into wearing the outfit. Lisa would never usually wear this tiny cloth. The dress, or what she’d first thought was a top, wasn’t even hers, it was Alexis’. She’d brought it around for Lisa to wear for her birthday. Lisa turned twenty-one and her three closest friends, Alexis, Racheal, and Becky, were taking her out to celebrate.

      Lisa had spent her day with her foster family. They’d raised her from the age of ten and were extremely religious. Lisa had gone to an all-girls Catholic school. She’d gone to church every Sunday and followed the rules of the foster house. They were very strict. No boys as friends. All friends must be approved by her foster parents Helen and Bruce. No dating unless he was approved by Bruce. Clothing must be appropriate. No skirts above the knees. No tops showing cleavage. Her foster parents would hate what she was wearing now. If they saw her, they would make sure she had a meeting with Father Tomas. It surprised Lisa that they let her be friends with Alexis and Becky though, but they had gone to the same school and the parents were all friends. If they knew what Alexis and Becky were really like, Lisa knew she would have never been able to stay friends with them. Her foster parents didn’t know about Racheal, she was a friend Lisa had met at university.

      Stop yanking on the dress, Lis. Alexis grabbed her hand to stop her from holding it down. You look amazing.

      It’s too short and I look like a slut. I’m going to get raped tonight if I look like this. I won’t have anyone to blame but myself thanks to giving into your peer pressure. Lisa knew what she said wasn’t right. It was Bruce and Helen and all their teaching. Lisa wanted to go out. She wanted to be young and have a relationship.

      Becky groaned. Bruce and Helen have a lot to answer for. Becky came and stood before Lisa and held the hand Alexis wasn’t.

      I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said that. She hated the way Bruce and Helen had raised her, but they hadn’t beaten her or psychologically abused her. She’d been loved and cared for, she just had to follow their rules. If Lisa wasn’t so afraid of being alone, she would have stopped seeing them. She hated how pathetic she was.

      Beck shook her head. No. No you shouldn’t have. You’re twenty-one today. You don’t live with them anymore. You haven’t for over a year. You’re a grown arse woman. You can dress however you want. You can date whoever you choose.

      But— Lisa should stay quiet. She agreed with her friends, but years of Helen and Bruce’s influence was hard to deprogram.

      No buts. Racheal came over and squeezed herself between Becky and Alexis. For crying out loud, Lisa, you’re a twenty-one-year-old virgin, and not just a virgin, but a twenty-one-year-old who’s never had a boyfriend or even a male friend. I bet if it wasn’t for the internet, you’d have never seen a naked man. Racheal smirked. Unless some of the old guys at the nursing home you work at let you see their junk.

      Argh, gross, Racheal. That’s just wrong. Lisa groaned and felt her cheeks heat at Racheal’s comment about naked men. She’d been in university when she’d seen an image of a naked man and only by accident. Her foster parents had parental locks on all internet devises she had access too. Her old mobile she’d had when she was still living with her foster parents didn’t have Internet. It was a good thing she upgraded.

      Her three friends laughed. Look at that blush, Alexis said between giggles. Tonight is going to be so much fun. She winked at Racheal and Becky. She’s going to be as red as a tomato when we leave for her surprise.

      Yep. I can’t wait. Get the blindfold Becky, Racheal said as she bounced up and down with excitement.

      Lisa didn’t think she needed to be blindfolded, but they’d had this discussion, heck, argument for days now, where they were taking her was a surprise and she couldn’t see. Lisa was scared to think of where they could take her that they had to blindfold her and drive.

      Becky came back with a bright pink scarf, and with a sigh, Lisa closed her eyes and let them blindfold her.

      ****

      Dax

      Dax hated being late. He knew Lex would be pissed with him as tonight was booked out. It couldn’t be helped though, his sisters were roaming and needed protection while in the forest. His parents owned a farm that backed onto a shifter reserve. Humans may know about shifters, but not all of them are happy about shifters coming out. There are groups that hunt shifters in their animal form, and some even in their human form. Shifters watched out for each other, they protected all children and women with priority.

      Parking his SUV at the back of Hot Stuff club, he got out of the car and entered it through the back entrance, barely pausing to quickly type in the security code.

      Once inside, Dax went straight to Lex’s office. Lex’s door was open. He sat behind a massive mahogany desk typing on a computer. You’re late, he snapped.

      Sisters went for a roam.

      A smirk spread over Lex’s face; his bright blue eyes sparkled. How are Rochelle and Sasha?

      Narrowing his gaze, Dax growled, None of your damn business. Dax knew both of his sisters had been Lex’s fuck buddies. He didn’t care who his sisters fucked, they were old enough at thirty-five and twenty-eight to make their own decisions. Dax just didn’t want to hear about who they were with or any details. I’m already late. I just came to tell you I arrived and will close up to make up for being late.

      Fine, make sure Ranger knows.

      Giving a nod to Lex, Dax turned and paused, his tiger was restless tonight and that made Dax uneasy. The last time his tiger was like this he made the mistake of re-signing up for the air force. That was a twenty-year mistake that still haunted him.

      Taking a deep calming breath in, he slowly let it out and hoped with it being busy his tiger would stay down. He straightened to his six-foot-one frame, rolled his shoulders back, and strode into the club.

      ****

      Lisa

      Lisa eyed the building before her and dug her heels into the ground refusing to move. It was a huge building by the water with a park and forest trail behind it. The neon sign flashed Hot Stuff. Lisa may have moved to this town for

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