Bear With Me by Everleigh Clark

Author:Everleigh Clark [Clark, Everleigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Everleigh Clark
Published: 2017-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Jane couldn’t believe Sam had talked her into this. A flash of brown rumbled past her feet, and she laughed at a bear cub frantically trying to kick off his pants. So far, no one had even batted an eyelash at her being the only human at their special fling. What was it called? The Bear Romp. This was the time the bears welcomed all the other shifters from their community to come and celebrate on their private property.

A face painter sat on a hard-backed chair next to a man making weird noises while he tried unsuccessfully to make balloon animals. It was her bosses from the restaurant. Badgers, Sam had told her. It had all made so much more sense after everything came together. Jane laughed again when Amy yelled at her husband and told him to stop popping all the balloons. The way they were sniping at each other, they’d be at each other’s throats, or having sex—or both—within minutes. The last few kids thanked the couple and ran to the Slip ’N Slide, and the honey badger couple took that as their cue to close up shop.

They disappeared, hand in hand, into the woods.

Liam sprinted up to her, a huge grin on his face as he shook his wet head at her.

“How was the balloon fight?”

“Fantastic!” He was beaming from ear to ear. “Bo let me get on his shoulders, and we won, and then I got Jeremy in the head, and no one yelled at me for being too rough. And then we played tag, and I accidentally tripped a girl, but she just laughed. And then we wrestled. Nobody told me to calm down. I love it here!”

Jane loved seeing the bright shine on his face and the twinkle of hope back in his eyes. Her boy was happy, and, for today, that was all that mattered.

“Did you talk with your mama about shifting yet?” Bo smiled and ambled up to them, his firm, measured gait bringing a thrill to her heart. He had a way of always looking like he knew exactly where he was going, but wasn’t going to rush it.

She wondered if he was like that in everything he did. A small niggling tickled at the back of her mind, but she ignored it, focusing on Bo and Liam.

Liam had jumped back up into the large man’s arms and was now happily perched on his shoulders. “Can I try that, too, Mama? Will I look just like them? What will I look like?”

“Baby, I don’t know what you’ll look like. Your father was golden with streaks of dark brown, and I only saw him once fully shifted.” It had scared the living daylights out of her. “He was beautiful and strong and graceful.”

“But he was a bad man, and you hope I don’t look like him.”

Liam’s words almost broke her heart. He said it so matter-of-factly, not even as if it made him sad, but just the truth. She felt her lower lip tremble, and she bit it to stop herself from tearing up in front of him.

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