Between a Bear and a Hard Place by Red Lynn

Author:Red, Lynn [Red, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: alpha male, menage romance, werewolf shifter, romantic menage, shifter romance, Werebear romance, shapeshifter romance
Publisher: Yellow Moon Press
Published: 2015-01-14T08:00:00+00:00

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“Panic never, ever does any good. But for some reason, I keep doing it.”

-Claire

They touched down at half past three, which was about an hour after the mystery wound appeared in Jacques’s shoulder. Dawn was nothing more than an imaginary gray streak on the horizon as the helicopter settled with a heavy groan of metal. Until the second they landed, Claire could not in any way understand how she kept her shit together.

All the blood, the panic, the terror, and embarrassingly, worst of all, the horrible sinking feeling that leaving her bears behind inflicted, haunted her. But, she managed to choke it back, to keep the bile in her throat instead of her mouth.

But once they wheeled the Cajun off and took him off to do something or other, it all caught up at once. She started shaking, her eyes went hazy, and the entire inside of her mouth turned to cotton.

“You have to calm the hell down,” Jill hissed, pulling Claire aside and into the vending machine room on floor six. “I know you’re scared, I understand it. I’ve been in a pretty similar place. But if you keep acting like this, you’re going to kill yourself with a heart attack.”

The only other company in the room was a frumpy man in an untucked flannel shirt who seemed so absorbed in the newspaper he was glaring at that neither of them even considered his presence. Whatever was on page 2-B must have been really amazing.

Claire chewed hard on her bottom lip, which was tucked neatly behind her small, square, straight teeth. From the look on her face, she wasn’t paying a lick of attention to anything Jill was telling her. “Do you have a dollar?”

“Huh? Oh you’re probably starving, aren’t you? Here.”

The dollar slid into the machine with a slow whirring sound.

“Need another one. If they don’t screw you with the doctor bill, they’ll gouge you to death paying for a Snickers bar.”

Jill clunked a pair of quarters into the machine. “Is it at least king size? Well either way, we’re splitting this thing.”

The two of them sat in silence, their absurd meal of Diet Coke and half of a regular sized Snickers bar laying on napkins that fluttered in the stale air circulating through the room courtesy of an overhead fan with ball bearings that desperately needed to be replaced.

Claire mashed down the first half inch of her share of the candy bar with the first two fingers on her left hand. She scooped the wounded food along the napkin and then scraped it off with her bottom teeth. “I never thought I’d say this, but this is the first time a Snickers hasn’t done a damn thing for me.”

She stared very intently at the mooshed-up nougat and caramel on her fingertips, and snipped another peanut off with her teeth. “How did you deal with it?”

Jill had already finished her candy bar, and had sucked down about half her Coke. “Which part?”

Claire pursed her lips and arched an

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