Bear and Baby by Elsa Jade

Author:Elsa Jade [Jade, Elsa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bear shifter and witch paranormal romance
Publisher: Red Circle Ink
Published: 2018-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Mac padded after Brandy through the hallway and up the narrow stairs of the old Victorian. And yeah, he had his gaze on her butt the whole way. It was one thing to see the changes that motherhood had made to the nubile, coed body that had writhed beneath him three years ago, and something else entirely to know that he had made those changes.

He had a child. He had a son.

He gulped, and the sound was louder than his footsteps—because he hadn’t been lying about how quietly a bear could move. As long as no one heard the uproar in his head, anyway.

He had a son. He had a child.

At the top of the stairs, Brandy gestured to two matching doorways at one end of the hall. She pressed one fingertip over her lips in a shushing gesture. Must be her sisters’ bedrooms.

She turned the other direction and tiptoed toward the closed door. It opened soundlessly at her touch. God, his heart was pounding so hard it would be embarrassing if anyone—if she—put that fingertip to his racing pulse. She nudged the door wider and beckoned him forward.

He peered through the doorway and was oddly reminded of descending into Thor’s den. Maybe it was just the dim lighting. Maybe his nervousness. He angled his head toward the small bed with the upright slats.

Nose twitching, he started to take another step within. But Brandy hadn’t ceded the space in the doorway entirely, and they bumped shoulders. She jostled him, not gently. “Far enough,” she grumbled.

“You said I could see him,” he reminded her. “And I can’t see anything in that cage.”

“Crib,” she countered testily.

He put one hand on her shoulder and was surprised to feel the tension thrumming there. “I’m not going to hurt the boy, Brandy,” he chided. “I’m not going to steal him away from you.”

When she didn’t answer, he flexed his fingers a little, half reassurance, half settling her into place. And he stepped forward.

The boy was lying flat on his back, limbs thrown out in all directions and his face turned away. Under the crisp smells of soap and toothpaste lingered a hint a peanut butter and honey, Mac’s favorites.

He gazed down at the sleeping child, wondering at the strange shift of emotions within him. He hadn’t felt this uncertain, this unbalanced since the rite of passage as a teenager where he claimed his bear in front of his proud family and the rest of the small clan—and realized he was now responsible for the security and secrets of all shifters. It was like being stuck mid-shift: partially upright, partially furred, all too vulnerable.

Was this even half of what Brandy had felt when she realized she was pregnant? And that would’ve been when the babe was still inside her, not even yet its own being. How much more terrifying when her secret was out, when she held that new life in her arms and realized she was no longer alone, and she had this small, tender creature in her care, now and forever.

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