Bear Meets Bride: A Paranormal Bear Shifter Romance by Star Amy

Author:Star, Amy [Star, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-04-23T07:00:00+00:00

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Meanwhile, Dylan was busy patrolling the winding trails that led over the island. The island itself wasn’t huge but it was big enough that if you didn’t know the lay of the land you could end up getting lost quite easily. Tall groves of pale-trunked cedars littered the underbrush, reaching high into the sky with their lofty boughs, interspersed here and there with the smooth blood-colored trunks of arbutus that winded in precarious serpentine tessellations. Down by the shoreline the stronger, hardier straight-trunked sequoia stood like sentries, guarding the interior of the island like a windbreak.

Dylan knew all these trees by heart, but more importantly, he knew where they were localized. In the six months he’d spent training his body and his mind to better adapt to the shift from human to bear and back again, he’d come to know the island as well as he knew his own name. All he had to do was speak it, and the topography opened up to him. This morning, he skirted some of the watersheds, the small creeks and streams that speckled the island, many of them dark as well-steeped tea with the bled off tannins of trees. Although, recently, the streams were quite clear. Just wait for the next rain storm, he chuckled to himself.

Chris hated when the water turned a dark brown even though it was perfectly safe to drink (arguably even better, considering it was laced with minerals and vitamins), the older man had a hard time dealing with it. But Dylan had another purpose in tracing the water streams. Here and there, in the wetter patches of mud and lowland grass, grew a number of plants and herbs endemic to the west coast that could be used as a sort of medicine and antiseptic for Chris’ wounds.

In all likelihood, his patron was out of the woods in terms of the infection but he still worried. It took a lot to take a giant like Chris down. I guess a 30 aught 6 rifle would do it, he thought, trying not to recall the events of the two days past. He still had a nasty cut on his forehead covered with Sarah’s dressing. It would leave a deep and wide scar, even though she’d managed to sew it together.

The images in his mind turned from blood, pain and pressure to that fateful night, when he and Sarah had finally consummated their marriage-to-be and made love. He blushed in spite of himself, recalling the feel of her warm body sliding against his, the feel of her pulse through a breast or a thigh, or her own stunted breathing gasping into his ear. Maybe it was the stress that had driven them to it; maybe it was being trapped on an island. These were his excuses – his rationale – for avoiding the more obvious answer.

She’s fallen in love with me, he dared to think. And what about me? He searched his feelings, and while he could say with certainty that he felt strongly about her, he wasn’t sure what to call it.

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