-So,
I adore your Marius world and love all your minor characters… Out of all of
them why did Clove get his book next?
After his scene in the
Christmas book I knew he would be soon. I just chose him randomly to be the one
to defend Damon and then that line came up about him being willing to fight for
his mate every day of his life and I had an “awww” moment. He needed to find
his mates more than the others in my mind.
-As
authors, we know that our main characters all have some piece of ourselves in
them. What piece does Clove have of you?
He tries so hard to do the
right thing and it just always seems to blow up in his face. And it’s not like
he dreams of or wants anything all that crazy or unreasonable. He just wants
simple, to be happy, find love, and get some peace in his days and it just
always seems to go so wrong.
-Tit
for tat… What is it about the minor characters that are his mates you love
best?
Kinkade is so used to
being the boss and pretty much the Alpha, set in his ways, total top, and has
serious issues in his past with Kappas. But none of that stops him from being
what his mates need and busting his ass to get over his crap and past to make
things work so they’re both happy even though he barely knows them. I know
there’s going to be some people out there who still don’t like him but I adore
him. He’s a man’s man, but not the stereotype. He puts everyone else first and
doesn’t have a selfish bone in his body.
Jordy might be the most
understanding person in the world and it’s a quality I wish I had more of. He’s
not ever even mad at Kinkade for his issues… He just wants to help. A person
just has to have a pure heart to be that truly good and I wish there were more
people in the world like that who gave to others instead of trying to see what
they could get for themselves always.
-What’s
next for the series?
Elan’s coming up for
release soon and in Clove’s story I introduce some new wolves and open some
doors. In Elan’s I friggin throw open a massive gate to lots of new fae characters and what’s coming in their side of the
coven. Other than that I have some contenders on who’s getting books soon but
right now I’m focused on the Omegas. I think I know which character is next but I don’t want to say until I’m sure.
I always reserve the right to change my mind. But there is lots more to come,
that I know without a doubt.
Clove Sutherland is due for release from Siren Publishing on May 30th and can be purchased here.
Blurb:
It’s always important to Clove to
support the people he cares about. So when Elan asks for a favor, he agrees…
Which leads to them backing up Caven on an interview.
Waiting with the people closest to him for
the Alpha his friend Mareo talked him into meeting, Kinkade Wolfram is floored
when he smells his mate among them.
Jordy was trying to fit in with his new
pack by working for Caven and ends up at Clove’s new house because of it. Unfortunately,
Kinkade hates everything that is a Kappa and refuses to acknowledge Jordy as
his mate.
Torn between them, Clove has to figure
out how to make his family whole before his heart is broken. Can Kinkade get
over his issues with Kappas and see his past for what it really was? Or will
three individuals fated to be mates end up as two separate couples under the
same roof?
Excerpt:
“Why did you flinch?” Damn. I knew this was going to come
up.
I refused to lie to my mate, but when I was going to ask
that we discuss this later I saw the deep concern in his eyes and I couldn’t
let him worry. “We’re doing this right in front of the man I’ve been seeing.
I’m blessed and grateful to have found you but I can’t help but be concerned
for him. He’s a good man.”
He nodded and swallowed loudly. “Do you love him?”
“Yes, but my heart is not his.” He raised an eyebrow at
that. “We love each other but we’re not in
love. He means a lot to me.”
“Then there is room for me.” He gave me a wolfish smile, pun
intended, and rolled gracefully to his feet. He didn’t make me feel as short as
Elan did, only being five inches taller than my six three. Wow. I’d really have
to stop comparing him to Elan or making everything about my fae lover…
Especially since Elan was humping the smaller wolf into the ground. “Get off my
little brother!”
“What?” I gasped, glancing from my mate to the man I was
involved with moments ago. “Your brother is mating my lover?”
“You’re involved with Elan?” Virgil asked with big eyes and
then whistled. “Wow. Good thing we brought you with to meet the wolves.”
“Hey, they just closed the deal,” Caven snickered. “I’m
thinking fruit basket with an arrangement of sex toys for the happily mated
couples. Well, Elan gets another one of course.”
“So do I,” I admitted.
“What?” several people exclaimed.
“Vampires only get one mate,” Kinkade growled as he cornered
me against a tree. We’d met in a forest preserve Kinkade and Mareo had dealings
in before because it gave us cover and wouldn’t be crowded at night. It seemed
it also gave us soft grass for my mate to ravage me on and trees to pin me to.
“Explain immediately.”
“I can’t,” I stuttered, his ferocity both worrying and
exciting me. “It’s just the way it’s always been in my family. All of my
relatives have two mates.”
“How can that be, Clove?” Virgil asked gently.
“I don’t know,” I answered, glancing at my friend. “How do
the O’Hagans have twins? We just do. The Sutherlands have two mates always.” I
searched my mate’s eyes. “I’m not lying to you, I swear. I would have brought
this up more gently but when Caven mentioned Elan having another one because
he’s fae, it would be like lying to me not to have fessed up right then.”
“Yes, I agree,” he said after a moment, giving me a swift
nod. “My mate is honorable. I am pleased and shall make sure you are rewarded
well tonight. Let us see our new home.” He rubbed his hand against my hip
suggestively as he glanced at Caven. “Alpha, I speak for my brother and I when
I say we accept though I cannot speak for the others. Can we gather our things
later?”
“Whatever makes the brother of my mate happy,” Elan said as
he stood with the small wolf in his arms. “I am the one who opened the portal.
I will gladly bring you back whenever you like.” He approached us slowly,
ignoring the dual growls as he reached out and cupped my cheek. “Clove, my
dear, I will treasure our time together always. You have become so important to
me and not in only the ways of the bedroom, though I will think fondly on those
times as well.”
“Me too,” I whispered, blinking back tears that wanted to
form at the idea of no longer having him in my life. “We don’t have to stop
being friends, right? You get me, Elan. I don’t want to lose that. It’s been so
long since I’ve had a person I felt I could be myself with always.”
“No, we won’t stop being friends. We’re each a mate of
brothers,” he chuckled, brushing my cheek. “And you will always have a special
place in my heart as the friend who led me to my mate, helped me reconnect with
my brother, and eased me into life on your world again. Almost five thousand
years I’ve lived and it seemed I just needed to find the friend named Clove to
lead me to my most precious of gifts.” He dropped his hand and stared down at
his mate.
“I’m Kermy,” the little wolf said as he extended his hand to
me. “I’m cool with you guys being friends as long as it’s not naked friends and
you don’t hug or really hang around the full moon. We get way too possessive then and it might go bad.”
“I understand. Thanks, Kermy.” I shook his hand, giving him
an honest smile.
“If you guys are coming, we’re with you. We’re not breaking
up the band,” one of the other French wolves joked.
“We’re going to have a band in the pack? That’s awesome!” Caven exclaimed excitedly.
“They weren’t being literal, my love,” Gabriel mumbled,
trying to let his mate down easily. But like Caven, he took it in stride.
“Oh, well, we should still look into that. It would make the
parties way more wicked if we had our own wolf band.” He shrugged and glanced
at Elan. “I’m hungry again. Portal home? You’ll bring them all back later to
get their stuff? I’ll find them housing. I’m sure Ayden and Darcy have rooms if
they want to stay with the majority of the pack or they can buy one of the
development houses or Elena offered them a few of the suites for the ones I
pick as Betas so they’re close.”
Kinkade shot me a look and went to open his mouth but I
shook my head. I could explain to my mate later.
Adult Excerpt:
“Is it true that vampire mates bite during oral sex and it
is a high like no other?” he asked, his gravelly, growly voice going even
deeper.
I licked my lips and nodded. “I have heard that. I’ve not
done it. It’s something most tend to save for their mates, but yes, I know
mated couples who swear it’s the best oral sex on the planet.”
“I am too wound up for our first round to be our claiming
sex,” he hedged. “I do not wish to dishonor how much I want this with being a
three-pump chump as I hear Americans call it.”
“I should help you with that then,” I purred as I ran my
hands up his thighs. “I hear werewolf blood not only makes us horny bastards
but it’s an endorphin rush so I won’t be nervous or tighten up on you for when
you shove this pole into me. A sip might be a good idea as I suck you down.”
“The mouth on you,” Kinkade growled. “Put it to good use.”
“Yes, my mate,” I hissed as I licked the tip of his cock.
Then I swallowed as much of him as I could down as I massaged his sac. Kinkade
snarled and I shivered at the sound. He grabbed my head, but not too roughly,
and fucked my face, careful not to shove his cock down my throat. I used my
other hand to wrap around the base of his cock to keep from going to deep.
“Yes, Clove. Yes! This is what I’ve dreamed of. Always this
pleasure with my mate. So good. Already there.” When his sac drew up and I felt
him start to shake, I sank my fangs into his cock. Kinkade bellowed my name as
he shot down my throat, his seed and his blood mixing into a delicious cocktail
I would be addicted to.
The second I retracted my fangs and pulled off his cock he
leaned over and picked me up and dragged me on the bed, grabbing the lube I’d
dropped as well. He inserted his larger frame between my legs and slicked up
his still-hard cock, gasping for air.
“Need a minute there?” I teased.
“No, need you,” he snarled. “Never been so fucking turned on
in all my life.”
“Really?” I felt my eyes go wide at that. I got the feeling
Kinkade was far from a pup and probably had experienced a lot. He froze for a
moment before growling loudly and moving his unslicked hand to pin my wrists
over my head as he pushed two fingers into my hole. I screamed in pleasure and
spread my legs wider. Then he moved so we were nose to nose.
“I do not exaggerate, tell fibs, say what I think you want
to hear, or will ever inflate your ego, Clove. Do you fucking understand?”
“Yes, my mate,” I moaned as he shoved his fingers into me
furiously over and over again. “You enjoyed the blow job I gave you.”
“Enjoyed it does
not even begin to describe what I felt.” He gave me that wolfish smile again.
“I would beg often to feel that again. Do I strike you as a man that begs,
Clove?”
“No, no you don’t. You’re a man that demands what he wants.
Maybe takes it if he knows he’s welcome.”
“Smart man. For that blissful pleasure I would beg.” He
tilted his head and stared at me carefully, his thick, chocolate hair with the
light brown highlights falling into his eyes. “Would you deny your mate if I
begged and offered you pleasure in return?”
“No, never, Kinkade. I wouldn’t even make you please me in
return. I would offer it to you freely just to make you happy,” I blurted out,
being completely honest with him as I offered a piece of my heart to him. I saw
hope fill his eyes and joy.
“Which is why I will fall deeply in love with my strong,
honorable, and tender mate,” he whispered. “How stretched do you like to be?”
“That’s enough. Please take me,” I begged. “Please? I want
to feel you inside of me, Kinkade. I need us to be one. I’m scared this won’t
work with the three of us. I want to know we can work.”
“I will do everything I can to get rid of my demons, my
mate. For you I will do my best,” he swore to me. I nodded as he pulled out his
fingers and moved my leg over his hip. He lined up his cock and pushed inside
my barely prepared hole. I screamed out in pain, loving it, and Kinkade mashed
his mouth down to mine, swallowing the noises I made. He grunted as he forced
his cock into me, needing to be one with me as much as I did.
I whimpered and arched into his body and he knew what I
wanted, releasing my hands. Normally I would have loved for him to keep me
pinned down like that but not our first time together where we were claiming
each other. I wanted to feel and touch every inch of my new mate. I fisted his
hair with one hand as my other hand traveled down his back. He moved my other
leg over his hip as well and I wrapped them around him.
Kinkade thrust hard and forced his cock all the way inside
of me, getting another deep scream from me. He shook at my need and I knew we
were perfect in our desires, matching up exactly with what we wanted. My ass
barely got a few moments to adjust to the invasion before he started fucking me
like a madman and with the sip of his blood I’d had, I was all for it, lifting
my hips to meet his.
We fucked like animals, our bodies saying everything we
didn’t even know how to voice.
