Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Under His Command
SERIES: Hybrid Heat #3
AUTHOR: Kiki Burrelli
PUBLISHER: self published
LENGTH: 148 pages
RELEASE DATE: June 28, 2018
BLURB:
A bond that surpasses blood.
Thorne has found a home as second-in-command among the hybrid bikers, and while he considers his pack mates brothers, he never forgets the stepbrother he was coerced into leaving behind. From first sight, Thorne knew he was meant to protect his stepbrother, Sage and he never stopped, until his parents pushed Thorne out of his home by threatening Sage’s safety. His parents thought their bond was unnatural and while it broke Thorne’s heart to leave, he believed it was what was best for Sage. The pack would protect Sage better than an eighteen-year-old lone hybrid shifter.
When the world tells them no.
Twelve years Sage has spent getting over losing his protector, his bodyguard, and his only friend. Thorne had been his entire world, until he suddenly wasn’t. Gone without a trace, at thirteen, Sage couldn’t believe the boy who held his heart would leave him. He spent months running away from the compound he lived in with his parents and lion pride. He’d been sure that Thorne was out there, needing his help. But, after several cruel punishments and years without more than an envelope of money sent through the mail from his former savior, Sage had to realize, his soul mate was gone. Gone, but never forgotten. With only a return address, Sage sends a letter hoping it will bring Thorne home while also dreading that it will.
They say yes.
Thorne worries that returning to his hometown of Dry Creek, Texas will cause more harm than help, but he received Sage’s letter and Thorne has never been able to refuse Sage anything. Except, when he gets there, he finds his hometown in disrepair. Relations between the humans and shifters are at an all-time low, and the sweet, innocent little stepbrother Thorne left in the safety of the pack his now foul-mouthed, sharp-witted and knocked up. Thorne knows the father of Sage’s unborn isn’t his mate. Thorne is Sage’s mate, and he’s spent too long trying to ignore that fact.
Thorne has to pick up the pieces of his broken relationship with Sage and put them back together before he loses Sage for good. Or, before the Protectors of the Pure, an anti-shifter group, unveil their latest plan to wipe shifters off the face of the earth.
Under His Command is a full-length, stepbrother mpreg romance with sugar, spice and a guaranteed HEA.
Trigger Warnings include: mentions of abuse, mentions of drug addiction and alcoholism, and death of a parent.
REVIEW:
I’ve always liked Thorne and wondered what his story was and now that I’ve read it and bawled my eyes out…sheewww. This is a hard story. Be aware of the Warning.
Things aren’t always as they seem. Thorne has been sending money home for years, but no one knows why. And the one person he wants to tell why he’s not home, he can’t. He was forced to go away because of who his mate is. His own step-brother. And Sage has been devastated and living in hell for years. When Thorne goes back home for his mother’s funeral, he finds out how bad it’s really gotten and how much worse it’s about to be. The damn Pure cult is sniffing around and they’ve made a drug that is much worse than before. And for the sake of his claimed mate and the baby, Thorne will go down fighting if that’s what it takes. With the help of the hybrids and his stepfather, they destroy some of what these people are trying to do, but they all know it’s inevitable that another will pop up in its place. But they have to get to the bottom of all this soon, or what is left of the shifters in the world will be no more.
I’m one of those who kind of has a hard time with the whole step -brother trope and stuff. So, it was a little hard to read because of that part, just for me. But I still love this series and this story. I mean if it wasn’t for Sage’s father and Thorne’s mother marrying…they wouldn’t even know each other. So technically they aren’t related. All that matters to them, is they’re mates. But not everyone had the same opinion they did and they were broke apart. Which caused both of them to be broken. Sage a lot more than Thorne. At least Thorne found a good family. Sage had to put up with all the beatings and the bull that went with it. It broke my heart. Trying to keep two mates apart. They were kids and adults were determined to break their spirits. It’s shameful. But Thorne was determined, this time, he’d get it right. He stuck his foot in his mouth a lot but he kept going. He kept trying and slowing dropping that wall around Sage’s heart. Especially when Sage finally found out the truth of what really happened.
It was sad what these two had endured. What hells they had to go through because of people. But they kept trying to go on. Even when they felt so broken apart. I guess it finally made being home with each other finally, all that more worthwhile.
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