Gray Back Ghost Bear by T. S. Joyce

Author:T. S. Joyce [Joyce, T. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-08-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Jason traced his finger lightly from one freckle to the next on Georgia’s back. He smiled as she giggled. He pressed harder as he connected her spots so it wouldn’t tickle her so much.

She lay on her stomach on a pile of blankets that had been stashed in the treehouse. Dinner was long gone, eaten on the floor as she’d sat between his legs, talking and laughing. This woman, his woman, eased his soul in ways he couldn’t ever explain to her. And not once tonight had he seen Tessa. For a moment, watching Georgia’s slow smile and her lips move with her words, he forgot he was broken at all.

Georgia didn’t know it yet, but she possessed magic. It’s the only thing that could explain how normal he felt right now, propped up on his elbow, lying beside the woman he’d do anything for.

His attraction to her had been instant and shocking, but after tonight, his fate was sealed to collide with hers for always. His heart and body already belonged to her, but he wouldn’t say such things out loud. Georgia was human and didn’t understand how fast a bond worked. He was a simple man who didn’t know much, but he knew one thing. Georgia was his in all the ways that mattered.

This wasn’t like with Tessa. It wasn’t hard love or painful affection. It wasn’t waiting for a rare compliment and enduring so much bad. It wasn’t fighting and throwing hateful words like grenades. It wasn’t absorbing animosity because the words “I love you” had been used. It wasn’t sticking around out of stubbornness or a fear of failing a relationship.

Being with Georgia was easy. It was a song his heart had memorized that he could sing without thinking about the lyrics. Two weeks ago, he’d been headed to hell, but Georgia had caught him. She’d hugged him close and stopped his freefall.

“If you were a shifter, you’d be a leopard.” He traced another shape into her freckled skin.

“Or perhaps a cheetah,” she said, her full, petal-pink lips spreading in a happy smile. “Not a scary bear.”

“Never a bear,” he agreed, his mind skittering away from the thought of her with silver eyes.

“Never?”

Gooseflesh rippled across her back and arms, so he pulled the blanket firmly over her to keep in the warmth. The snow had stopped, but the sun had gone down and taken its warmth with it.

“I let Tessa Turn me, and it has been my biggest regret. I had to hide what I was from the people I loved the most.”

“Your family?”

He nodded. “My mom called me the day I registered with the Gray Backs. One of her friends had told her that her youngest son was a bear shifter. She should’ve heard it from me.”

“Was she upset?” Georgia asked, her strange-colored blue and gold eyes filling with sympathy.

“She cried on the phone for a long time. It was after Tessa had left me—after she died. Mom guessed what had happened right away and knew it was Tessa who Turned me.

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