Coral Rustling

Published by: eXtasy Books

Author : Charlie Richards

ISBN :978-1-4874-4344-3

Page :82

Word Count :23000

Publication Date :2025-07-10

Series : Kontra's Menagerie#18

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Category : Erotic Romance , Fantasy Romance , LGBTQIA+ Romance , LGBTQIA+ , What's New

BrandsExtasy Books
Product Code: 978-1-4874-4344-3

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On the Road: When a coral snake shifter succumbs to boredom, he learns the value of interaction.

Ulkna has spent the last three decades existing in his coral snake form. For most of that time, it was forced on him by witches. After being rescued over a year before, it was just easier. Then Ulkna overhears the shifters he’s staying with talking about something that he’s always enjoyed—horseback riding. So, he shifts.

While the guys are surprised, they welcome Ulkna on their Grand Canyon adventure. There, he scents something shocking…one of the horses that makes up the string of riding mounts is his mate. Finding him is easy, as Trey recognizes him, too. Getting Trey to leave his job as a trail mount is something else.

Can Ulkna overcome his loner tendencies enough to understand the importance of family and its implications on his relationship with Trey?

Ulkna slithered through the house, heading upstairs. Usually when he wanted solitude, which was often, he went into the woods behind whatever house the gang rented. Unfortunately, they were in town near Albuquerque visiting a gang member who’d settled there, having chosen to stay with his human mate after bonding. Therefore, the house they were renting was in town, so no woods out back.

Due to that, Ulkna planned to curl up in a closet and take a nap. As a coral snake shifter, he’d always been a loner, and his time trapped by witches in a zoo had cemented that even more. Getting rescued had saved him from the sadistic women’s poking and prodding, but he still had very little desire to interact.

Several members of the gang encouraged Ulkna to try shifting on a regular basis. He hadn’t bothered to reveal that he’d regained his ability to change forms months before. Few things interested him enough to resume his human form.

What was the point when living as a snake was so much simpler?

Pausing at a closed door, Ulkna contemplated slithering under it. It would be a tight fit, but he was pretty sure he could make it. Then he heard the unmistakable sounds of two men getting it on.

Never mind.

While Ulkna wasn’t a prude by any means, and he’d watched others having sex more than once over the couple of centuries he’d lived, shifters were a possessive lot. If the guys going at it hadn’t been fated mates, he would have slipped in, ignored them, and made his way to the closet. Except, all the shifter pairs in the gang were fated, so that idea was out.

It was a sign that Kontra’s gang was truly blessed by the fates, and Ulkna was happy for them.

Ulkna moved down the hallway, spotting two open doors ahead. Peering into the first room, he found it empty. He headed toward the closet, prepared to curl up in a dark corner to relax.

The words of one of the guys filtered out through the other open doorway, causing Ulkna to pause.

“Really, Lamar?” The penguin shifter, Yuma, spoke with a teasing tone. “You want to get on a horse and ride a dusty trail into the Grand Canyon?”

Lamar responded in a slightly haughty tone. “Rueben wants to check it out. He says it’s on his bucket list.”

“Ah, that explains it,” commented the deep voice of Hunter, Yuma’s human mate. “We’ll do anything for our mates.”