Resisting my Forbidden Fae: Virgin Best Friend Shifter Romance (Shifters & Fae Book 9) by J. S. Striker

Author:J. S. Striker [Striker, J. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-12-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Charlie woke up to an empty spot beside him, its coldness signaling that it hadn’t been occupied for a while. Panic flared, kept tamed as he ventured out and searched around. There were plenty of reasons she could have left, from basking in the familiarity of the cave like she had the newness of the ocean breeze, to volunteering to guard the entrance like so many others had done.

But the entrance only held the sleeping Oscar, and two others were nowhere to be found. Now the panic spread, a frenzy in his system until something glittered out of the corner of his eye.

“What the—”

Mindlessly, he dove into the space where he found a bigger space—and something else that had him stopping in his tracks. The bear exploded into fight mode, stopped only at the last second before it could tear apart his clothes. When the creature saw his half-shifted state, it did what any creature would do.

It puffed out, body forming a bigger ball, fur standing on end until it was twice the size of its original state. It rolled towards him, ready to knock him down and—

Brr.

His claws, close to sinking in, halted. His gaze flew up to meet flinty ones assessing him, an intelligence that belied how insistently it was trying to nuzzle him. Bewildered, he stayed where he was, braced to either be flattened or regaled with even more cuteness. When the nuzzling was the only thing happening, he sat up and arched his body, a tentative offer.

It went wild rubbing against his chest, then against his head until he was close to smothering. He bit back a sound of confusion and kept his voice gentle.

“I assume you are the one exuding this energy and making this cave area so…colorful, but who are you? Or what are you? And why are you…?”

Clothes landed in his line of vision, crumpled beside a body of water. But his focus locked on the clothes—specifically, who they belonged to. The relaxed feeling dissipated as the panic slammed its way back in and he rolled to tackle the creature to the ground. It was a laughable attempt considering how massive it was, perhaps four to five times his size, but he felt it stop its nuzzling.

“Did you eat her?” he demanded. “Or did you drown her?”

When the creature didn’t answer, he pushed it aside, needing to borrow from his shifter side with how heavy it was. At the moment of reprieve, he sprinted forward and scrambled to the water. He felt sick. He felt lightheaded at the idea that he let the creature distract him from his goal, and now it was too late—

Hands rose from the water. Then a figure pushed out of it, splashing water everywhere and bringing a shadow of curves in its wake. When the light from the colorful walls hit, the shadows became crystal clear, and he was treated to a sight that emptied everything inside him but this. Her.

Charlie saw the hair first, gliding down smooth, pale shoulders and sticking to soft, sensual curves.

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