Bear Run: A Bear Shifter Paranormal Romance (Pine Ridge Bear Shifters Book 1) by Belinda Meyers

Author:Belinda Meyers [Meyers, Belinda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Alice couldn’t believe they were doing this. This was insane. Taggart’s proposed act of bravery and sacrifice stunned her—horrified her. She wanted to beg him not to do it, but she knew it would be futile. He was bound and determined to save her at any cost. It was all so nuts. And yet here they were, in the forest being attacked by her asshole family and about to seek shelter in the direction the asshole Black Valley bears had been traveling in. It was an awful gamble, but she knew it was their best shot. No pun intended.

“I’m Turning,” Taggart said, giving her warning, and she stepped back, careful to keep the huge tree between her and Pa and Bradley as Taggart let his bear explode out from him. One moment he was a hot naked man—shit, the love of her life; she knew it keenly, could feel it in the pit of her stomach—and the next he was a roiling mass of fur and fangs and slabs of muscle, a terrible grizzly bear standing ten feet tall and fully 800 pounds.

A nervous ripple coursed up her spine, and she gasped. He was so big, so primal.

He lowered himself to all fours and thrust his head toward her. She hesitated, bit her lip and stroked his fur. His whole being vibrated, and despite herself, despite her fear, she smiled. Taggart might be a superhuman badass, but he was no threat to her. He was hers.

As it to prove this, he stepped out from the cover of the tree. She gathered her resolve and stepped with him, keeping him between her and Pa and Bradley, using him as a living shield, just as he’d wanted. A shot rang out, and Taggart grunted, sort of staggered.

“Tag!” she cried, and it was as if she could feel the bullet herself.

Instead of pausing, though, he loped faster. She moved with him, putting distance between where they were and where they had been—and placing trees between them and the snipers. Well, one sniper, really, since Pa and Bradley had to trade off using their single rifle. Despite everything, she grinned, imaging them fighting over it, but the grin quickly vanished when another shot sounded. This one struck a tree not far over Alice’s head, and a chip of bark sliced her cheek. She cried out in surprise and stumbled.

Taggart paused, turning to her.

“Keep going!” she said, and moved off at a trot. He’d been going too slow, not wanting her to get left behind, but it had put him at risk. Put both of them at risk.

“Don’t baby me!” she said. “Run full out!”

With obvious reluctance, he went faster, going uphill now, into a rockier area. The trees soared higher here and cast more shade, plunging them into darkness. Another shot fired, and another. Pa and Bradley’s aim was getting worse, thank goodness. They really were almost out of range.

When no shots sounded for several seconds, Alice glanced back to see two figures leave the protection of their tree and run pell-mell after her and Taggart.

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