Suck and Lick — Joyee Flynn

A Chupacabra sits down next to a giraffe shifter at the UPAC conference and ends up mated. It sounds like the beginning to a bad joke, but it's a nightmare for Leo, a giraffe shifter. His new mate is rude, socially inept, and claimed Leo against his will. The joke ends up being on Gable, a hybrid shifter the world refers to as the Chupacabra, when he finds himself mated to a giraffe who is head of a lion pride. Gable screwed up. He knows it, and he's trying to make things right, but every time he opens his mouth he seems to make things worse. Just as it seems the man accused of viciously sucking animals dry and the gentle shifter with the big purple tongue start to get their act together, trouble shows up on their front door. Will they fight it together or keep fighting each other?