Polar Bear S-Express by Tianna Xander

Author:Tianna Xander
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Menage, Shapeshifter, Paranormal, Romance, Erotic, Erotic Romance
ISBN: 9781771114004
Publisher: eXtasy Books
Published: 2012-12-15T04:31:32+00:00

Chapter Eight

“In the late nineteen-twenties, scientists found the scull of a polar bear in a cave in Inchnadamph, which is in the highlands. They think it is descended from the Irish brown bear, but we know better. At first, they thought the skull was only eighteen thousand years old. However, our legends say we’ve been a part of the Earth’s ecosystem for over six-hundred thousand years. Though no one really believes that.”

“Some of us do, Angus.” Liam leaned back against the couch, obviously deciding to watch as his friend told their tale. “The only reason they can’t find proof is because we usually die in our human form. That poor bear was most likely taken by surprise and died before he or she could shift back.” He shrugged when Kaitlin looked at him. “What can I say? No one wants their remains desecrated by a skinning or having someone eat you. Most humans don’t eat other humans. Some do, however, skin and eat bears.”

“They do, and did, especially back then. The pelt is rich and thick, capable of keeping a human warm in the harsh elements and the meat, plentiful enough tae keep a family fed for days,” Liam added.

“So, if you die in your bear form, you stay a bear and if you die in human form, you stay human?” Kat reasoned. What in the world was she saying? Was she really buying into all of this? What if they’d given her some kind of drug and all of this was some sort of weird dream or hallucination?

Or worse yet, what if she was still lying out on the ground, her body ravaged by the bear and this was her version of hell?

“Aye, lass,” Angus replied as he moved to flank her. “The shifting magic doesn’t work on the dead.”

“I don’t believe this.” Kaitlin stood and made her way to the kitchen. “I think I need a drink.”

Pulling her small bottle of vodka from the cabinet over the refrigerator, she poured a tiny bit into a cup and tossed it back.

Liquid fire made its way down her throat and she gasped. Holy crap that burns! She had never had a drink without some sort of mixer or at least a chaser before, and she would never do it again.

She twisted the cap onto the bottle easily and turned to the men. “Would you like a drink before I put it away?”

“No, thank ye, lass.” Liam took the bottle from her, set it back in the cabinet, and closed the door. “Alcohol doesn’t work on us the same way it does humans. Our metabolism burns it off faster.”

She frowned. “I thought polar bears had a slower metabolism.”

“I wouldn’t say slower. I think they just store and burn their energy more efficiently. And we shift intae polar bears. We aren’t really a part of their genome. At least, I don’t think we are. Males can try to mate with our females, but they cannae get cubs on one, just as we cannae get cubs on one of their females.

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