Bear to the End (Bear Claw Security Book 5) by Terry Bolryder

Author:Terry Bolryder [Bolryder, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Multicultural, Paranormal, Werewolves & Shifters, Multicultural & Interracial
Amazon: B01F403SD6
Published: 2016-05-01T18:30:00+00:00

Twelve

When they got up to the apartment, Charlotte took off her jacket and went into her room to change. She was already starting to feel numb inside, based on what she suspected, but she wanted to be as comfortable as possible if her fears were about to be confirmed.

The guilty, resigned expression on Mark’s face wasn’t helping. He looked like a man being led to the hangman’s noose.

She left him in the living room, where he was making sure the door was securely locked, as usual, and headed into the bedroom where she changed into some comfy, thick sweats that hid her completely.

Right now, she felt vulnerable, and the best way to counter that was to be warm and fuzzy and hidden from the world.

When she walked back into the living room, she saw Mark pacing on her ratty carpet.

If he really were a rich person, how had he been feeling about staying at her place this whole time? And why had he been doing it? Did he think it was funny?

Was it just because she didn’t want to work with him, and he, like a lot of rich men, just wanted to prove he could do whatever he wanted?

He faced her, his unbearably handsome face drawn tight as he opened his mouth to speak. “Sit down,” he offered.

She did, taking up the small couch.

He paced in front of her. “What do you want to know?”

“Are you rich?” she asked.

“Yes,” he answered.

She swallowed painfully, feeling a lump forming in her chest. “Are you the man I met in the office that I didn’t want to work with? Are you pretending to be your twin?”

His jaw tightened. “Yes.”

She slumped back with a sigh. She didn’t even know what to say just yet.

He came in front of her and knelt, but she scooted back as far away from him as she could, pressing herself into the hard back of the threadbare couch. “I was going to tell you. Before he even showed up. After what we shared last night, I didn’t want to keep lying to you.”

She folded her arms, more for self-protection than trying to look indignant. Like she could shield her heart from the oncoming pain if she just held herself tight enough with her puny hands.

“So you at least admit that’s what you’ve been doing,” she said. “Lying to me.” She hated how dead and dull her voice sounded. It was like when she’d first discovered Clay had been lying to her, meeting up with other women behind her back. And then when she’d confronted him, he’d hit her. And hit her. And not stopped hitting her until she’d walked out his door.

And then he’d began hunting her. Like it was a game. Disappearing for months at a time only to turn up and scare her and ruin everything, like he had today.

Mark gently tried to make her face him, but she turned away, tears biting her eyes.

“What else do you want to know about me?” he asked. “I’m who you think I am.

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