Mountain Guardian Bear: BBW Paranormal Bear Shifter Romance (Bears of Pinerock County Book 4) by Zoe Chant

Author:Zoe Chant [Chant, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-09-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

While they sat together on the bed, leaning into each other, Gannon told Daisy his story.

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I was born in the Black Mountain bear clan. I was the son of the alpha, so from the time I was a cub, I knew I would be the alpha someday.

I now know that growing up in the Black Mountain clan was really different from how most shifters live. Shifters like to live in rural places, small towns with enough woods around so they can let their animals hunt or fly or whatever it is that their shifter type needs to do, but these days there's not a lot of difference between most shifters and their human neighbors. They work at regular jobs and their kids go to school, just like humans.

But my clan still lived like shifters used to live in the old days. We didn't have anything to do with humans. I only learned how to read because my mom taught me from a few old magazines she found in an abandoned cabin. We spent as much time as possible shifted into our bears, living and hunting like bears. We didn't bother wearing clothes very much. We were almost feral.

I guess they still are.

And we got away with it because humans never came into our woods. If they tried, we'd chase them out. We were the mountain guardians, the giant bears of the deep woods. In the old days, there were legends about us. Ghost bears, spirit bears. We walked like bears, but we were as smart as men. We knew how to spring traps, how to sneak up on a hunter's camp at night and steal their guns and ammunition. The strongest and fiercest of all the alphas of the mountain clans had the title of Guardian—the alpha among alphas. When I was growing up, my uncle Zeus was Guardian, and I guess still is. I always got the feeling Zeus thought I was going to be his successor someday.

When I grew up, I became the alpha of my clan. As the alpha, I was responsible for the clan's welfare. We lived according to the old ways, and one of the old-time duties of the alpha is to make sure everyone has a mate. In some clans, this means stealing women from other clans, or forcing your own women to mate with people they don't want to. That's what happened to Saffron; it's what she was running away from when she met Remy and recognized him as her true destined mate. But I never wanted to do that. I let the women find their own mates, and I had a rule that no one could bring a mate into the clan unless she wanted to come. My mother had been mated to my father against her will. She came from one of the less wild clans, and she really missed the city. She missed things like books and nice clothes. I'd seen how unhappy she was, and I wasn't about to let that happen to anyone else.

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