Captivating the Bear by Jane Godman

Author:Jane Godman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-05-07T17:25:54+00:00

Chapter 12

Lidi made a wild grab for Bruno as he darted past her, but it was too late. He had already entered the cottage.

“I’m so sorry.” She hesitated, trying to decide what to do next. This was someone’s home, but she was sure Bruno was trying to get her to follow him inside. Before she was forced into a choice between trespass and canine abandonment, a noise drew her attention toward the shadowy depths behind the woman. It sounded like wheels scratching over floorboards.

The man who came into view was large. That much was obvious, even though Lidi could only see his upper body. From the waist down, he was obscured from view because he was seated in a wheelchair with a blanket covering his legs.

Lidi had time to take in that information before her gaze fixed on his face. Then everything else faded away. Because she knew she was looking at Andrei Tavisha. There could be no mistake. Not only was he a bear shifter, the likeness between him and Ged was remarkable.

“Wer sind diese Leute?” He looked at Ged and Lidi before turning to the woman, who he had called Sasha.

Although Lidi didn’t understand German, she could tell what he was asking. Who are these people? Bear shifters were a rarity in the human world. Luckily, they had a unique ability to recognize each other. Yet Andrei and Sasha were regarding her and Ged with suspicion. It made her wonder if they’d had a bad experience with other werebears.

She cast a sidelong glance in Ged’s direction, attempting to gauge his reaction. He appeared frozen to the spot, staring at Andrei as though he was too emotionally overwhelmed to deal with what was happening.

Andrei, on the other hand, did not appear to have noticed anything about Ged that struck him as unusual. Was it possible Andrei could look at his brother and not recognize him? She didn’t see how. It must be like looking in a mirror.

“We wanted to find you.” She spoke directly to Andrei, using their home language of Callistoyan.

He looked up at Sasha with a bemused expression. She shrugged, before responding to Lidi in English. “We don’t understand what you are saying.”

Confusion had a devastating effect on Lidi’s brain cells, frying the connection between them and leaving her feeling disconnected from reality. Could she be totally wrong about who this man was? Could everything that had happened be a coincidence? The painting, his name, his likeness to Ged...she shook the thoughts aside. Even if she could dismiss the startling similarities between the two men, she couldn’t ignore the fact that he was a bear shifter who painted pictures of her homeland, or that Bruno had led them to his doorstep.

She switched to English. “We wanted to ask about one of your paintings.”

Ged roused himself with difficulty from his trance. Withdrawing the picture from inside his jacket, he held it out to Andrei. The other man looked at it without touching it. “Ja, this is one of mine.

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