Loaded for Bear (Grizzly Cove Book 10) by Bianca D'Arc

Author:Bianca D'Arc [D'Arc, Bianca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Hawk Publishing, LLC
Published: 2018-03-19T18:30:00+00:00

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Mellie yawned as she turned the sign on the bookshop’s door from CLOSED to OPEN. She hadn’t gotten a lot of sleep last night. Currents of magic had swirled around her, making her restless all night long. She thought maybe it had been her imagination, but there was something different about the energy of the town today. Something…not quite normal.

Not that Grizzly Cove had ever been normal, per se. She smiled to herself at the thought. Get a town full of highly magical shifters, and things were bound to be a little different.

She went back to the desk and sat down, just enjoying the morning for a moment before she started in on the work that was waiting for her. Peter had worked the night shift, so she wasn’t sure when she’d be seeing him, though there was a good chance he’d stop in before he went off shift this morning. She knew that the night shift guy usually stuck around for a debrief before the day shift guy clocked on, so they should be doing that right around now.

She sipped her coffee and looked through the open doorway to the backroom. There were still a couple of boxes that needed unpacking, and then, she could work on the front window display.

The bell rang above the door, and she turned, expecting to see Peter, but the smile froze on her lips as her gaze met that of a total stranger. A very big, very scary, total stranger.

In a town full of big, scary men, this guy was in a class all by himself. Mellie swallowed her fear and thought about her options should this guy become violent. She was a strega. A powerful hereditary witch. There had to be something she could do if the worst should happen, right?

If she had the right potion, she could turn the guy into a frog, but all her good brews were upstairs. Not that she had ever brewed up anything that would turn anybody into anything even remotely resembling a frog…

She was babbling, even in her own mind. Get a grip, Mel!

“Be at ease, little one. I have come, as requested, to listen to your plea.”

His voice was like waves rippling on lava. Fire and brimstone and the rumbles of the earth. For a moment, she was mesmerized by the sheer power of his voice.

“What?” Mellie blinked, breaking the spell and retreated behind the counter, putting some space between herself and this beguiling man. “Who are you, and what do you want?”

“It is more a question of what you want from me. To answer your first question, I am the dragon.”

“Holy shit.” The profanity left her mouth in a stunned whisper, and thankfully, the dragon-man thought it was funny. He laughed while she tried to regain her wits. “I— I’m sorry. I’m Mellie Ricoletti. Thank you for coming. To be honest, I was only expecting a phone call where I could plead for your help.”

The suave dragon shifter gestured toward himself smoothly. “And yet, here I am.

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