Bear with Me (Shifters of Yellowstone Book 1) by Dominique Eastwick

Author:Dominique Eastwick [Eastwick, Dominique]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dominique Eastwick
Published: 2016-10-18T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

“I will stay with her here.” Shauna placed a reassuring hand on Brutus’s biceps. “You cannot stake out the ranger cabins. It’ll make the elks nervous.”

“She’s my mate. It is my right to protect her.” He was none too pleased by the events this morning when the hospital released her and she’d announced she wanted to head home. Without him.

“She is your given mate but she has not accepted you. And, at the moment, your absence might be more compelling than your presence.”

“Excuse me?” His easy disposition and slow-to-rise temper were remarkably absent.

Asha stepped forward. “Down, boy. What she’s trying to tell you, but you aren’t level-headed enough to seem to grasp, is if she’s feeling nervous and scared, your hulking mass in her personal space isn’t going to help.”

“Thank you, Asha,” Shauna said. “It’s also possible this need you feel to be with her is starting to emerge in her, too. She watched the door the whole time you were gone this morning. Leading me to believe the emotional connection has started. But never having dealt with a shifter/human mating, I can’t really say.”

“Okay I am going to meet with the elk alpha to get permission for you to be on their land for a while.” He walked out of the cabin and stumbled over a package left on the step. “What the hell.”

Asha picked it up and shook it. “I would guess it’s the same kind of package that turned up at our cave this morning.”

“What package?”

“Stop fretting. The black bears sent a package of really good yummies. Huckleberry jam, some bread, and honey.” Asha licked her lips as her stomach growled. “Maybe I should open this up and check. Just in case.”

Brutus slapped at her extended hand. “This had Quinn’s name on it, not Asha. Perhaps you can get attacked and then they will send you a care package.”

His sister hesitated as if thinking over the possibility before changing tactics. “She cannot possibly eat everything in that box.”

“How would you know?”

“Feel it. They packed enough to feed a bear. She. Is. Not. A. Bear.”

“Yet.”

She blew a raspberry at him in frustration. “Fine.”

Brutus walked into the single dorm-like room. “This came for you.”

Quinn glared at him. “My boss just called to inform me I am on disability until Dr. Mannsmann clears me and since he is a friend of yours, I guess it means when you clear me for work.”

She was too intuitive for her own good. Qualities that would make her a great beta but didn’t help him today. “I promise to stay out of the good doctor’s business.”

“Great, now, Shauna, I want your promise.”

Shauna spit out her lemonade and looked at her with an appearance of faux surprise. “Me?”

“You. You might stand up to the brute over there, but in the end you want what he does.”

“And what would that be?” Interest piqued, Brutus took a step farther into the room.

“Me to agree to mate you? Mate with you? Be your mate? However you say it.

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