Casey, page 16
part #8 of Safe Haven Wolves Series
“I don’t even know how to be free anymore.”
“Well, first off let’s see if my brother will let us borrow your sister’s Yili and we can go from there. Come on, we need to catch them before they get out of the kitchen, or we may not see them for days.”
The men raced to the kitchen to convince Dacron to let them taste their first bit of freedom in centuries. As they pushed and shoved their way into the room, Dacron looked up from the sandwich he was eating. “No, you can’t borrow it. I will take you up to get Dracula’s ship, but I will warn you now, we ate all the food. You are going to have to restock before you can go racing across the galaxy.”
Dracula wanted to snarl, but his face seemed set in a permanent grin, “Well, hurry up, man, I want to fly.” He approached Casey and lowered his forehead to touch hers. “If ever you need anything, I am yours to command. Thank you, little sister, of my heart, for giving me back that which I believed lost.”
The other two repeated the gesture while Casey stared at Dacron in confusion. He shrugged and grinned, “Don’t look at me, they are your friends.”
Casey laughed. “You’re right, they are, and they have been for many years. I just never imagined I would be the one to free them. Wow, their debt to me just keeps growing.”
Casey looked around the room at the men. Tomorrow was soon enough to figure out what to do about the rest of her race on Earth and start training her Golden Warrior Wolf, for today she would enjoy the laughter and love of her new family.
The end.
I always say that, but it is never the end for any of the characters in this series. They are all family in one way or another, and they pop in an out of each other’s lives so frequently you never know who you will see in the next book.
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Author Notes
This book is the 8th one in the series and my favorite one to date. I think it is possible the book is my favorite because Dacron stars in another series, which is not yet published. I loved the character when I started his journey to Earth with Mela and Dominick and was thrilled when I found out he wanted to be the one to mate with Casey. However, I was shocked and dismayed at the information he told me about his past. Yes, some of us authors do talk to our characters and allow them to lead the story. Sometimes we don’t have any clue where the story is going and we are as shocked as the readers when we get to a twist or a tangle. If a scene makes you cry, chances are I bawled my eyes out when writing it, walked away, texted a friend to complain about the character, looked at the screen and begged the character to let me write something else. Spoiler alert: they never listen.
I remember sitting in my car in my driveway and texting a friend of mine to complain about the story. I told her it was going terribly, horribly wrong and my fans would tar and feather me for screwing up the story. She gave me an amazing piece of advice—you have the keyboard she told me, write what YOU want. I laughed and laughed—then I asked her how that worked out for her. (It doesn’t.)
But at the end of the day, or in this case the end of the story, I was in love with the book. I thought Dacron was an so much fun to write and I sincerely hope that you, the reader, love this story as much as I do.
I had so many problems getting this story to my team. In fact, they never got the correct version. My computer, which was just suppose to be a temporary computer to write Kate, (you may remember I lost my computer and all my files days before Kate was due to be published) all but crashed on me. I ran out of memory and the story refused to save to the external hard drive I bought to give myself the storage room the computer lacked. Probably I suck at technology and the entire situation was user error. I don’t mind admitting this.
A special thanks to my team for their advice and help.
Melanie Robinson for telling me the story didn’t exactly match the blurb (Amazon description) and I should probably fix it. (The blurb usually is written before the book is complete so sometimes I have no idea the characters are going to go a different direction.)
Tiffany Steinert pointed out to me that I never really told anyone how often the vampires need blood or the exact purpose of the blood intake. (I went back into the story and added some points about it.)
Monica Hendrix for two things, allowing me to use her last name for a character in the last book, and telling me she was waiting for the epilogue for Casey.
Natalie Cream gave me an incredible boost of confidence about the book. She is very pedantic about punctuation and since the team got the old file she had to read the book riddled with punctuation errors. (I am not great with punctuation and that is why I have an editor.) Despite this she loved the book.
Kimberley Devine keeps me grounded when I panic. She and I are connected in a couple of groups and she is quick to tell me to not worry about things, to slow down and take it easy.
Kelly made me laugh and was instrumental in the addition to the story also. She told me the original ending felt like getting to taste the cake batter but not finishing the cake cooking.
Not only did Monica ask for more to the story, the rest of the team pointed out I had too much of a cliffhanger ending. As a result the original Epilogue became Chapter 27 and another Epilogue was created. I do have a couple of more team members but unfortunately they were unable to get to the book due to scheduling conflicts. Ellie Brearley is currently on vacation, Leisa Holden had problems loading the file but I think she finally got it to work, not at an ideal time for her work-wise.
Oh my gosh, I almost forgot. If you loved the book please leave a nice review on Amazon so others will be intrigued enough to pick the book up.
Sherry Foster, Casey
