Striped and Bear by Artemis Wolffe & Mercy May

Author:Artemis Wolffe & Mercy May [Wolffe, Artemis & May, Mercy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal, Fiction, Romance, Male & Male, Secrets, Humans, Adult, Erotic, Shifter, Bear, Pre-arranged, Mating, Tiger Shifter, Rogue, Globetrotting, Mountain Bear, Dangerous, Return Home, Shy
Goodreads: 25901131
Publisher: Artemis Wolffe
Published: 2015-07-12T04:00:00+00:00

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I sat across the table from Ezra, my eye pouring over the menu in my hand. My stomach growled in time with my bear as I tried to decide between the steak and the burger. Part of me wanted to just order both, but the sensible part - the part that recognized the fact that I now had very limited funds - was trying to make the decision for me. Ezra was adamant that I was missing out on the best brisket around, and that I’d regret not ordering it. I just ignored him. I mean, who the hell wants brisket when steak is an option?

By the time the waitress - a stick figured beach blond with a too-huge smile and a pair of barely-there tits - made her way to the table, I’d decided on the steak. So I was more than a little surprised when Ezra cut her off halfway through my order.

“Ignore that,” he told her. “He’ll have the same as me. Two of the barbecue brisket sandwiches. With hot chips.”

The waitress jotted down the order and walked off before I could protest.

“What the hell?” I shot at him, more than a little annoyed.

“You’ll thank me.” Ezra waved a dismissive hand at me, then took a sip of his iced tea.

I shook my head at him. “No, I won’t. I’m a grown-ass man, and I can order whatever I damn well please.”

Ezra sat his glass back down and stared across the table at me, his liquid blue eyes piercing me with an already familiar ferocity. I expected a lecture, some aggression, something volatile. Instead, all I got was a flat, “My treat.”

I just stared at him, dumbfounded. If he thought that he could buy me off to get around my annoyance, he had another thing coming to him. I’d never heard of fated mates brutalizing each other, but I was pretty certain that’s what he was in for if his air of superiority kept up.

“I don’t give a shit if it’s your treat,” I growled at him. “I can pay my goddamn way.”

Ezra snorted. Just… Just snorted. Mockingly so.

“How’s that?” he purred. “We both know daddy’s probably already cut your money flow off.”

I’d told him, in detail, about how I’d abandoned my family during the car ride here. I thought I’d been opening up to my mate, trying to let him get to know me, maybe in exchange for some information about him. But he’d been guarded. Even if he’d accepted that we were mates, he still didn’t seem one hundred percent keen on the idea.

“You don’t get to use my family baggage against me, Ezra,” I told him, cold and annoyed.

I didn’t know why he was trying so hard to get under my skin - not when everything was going so well - but it seemed like he couldn’t stop himself. I understood that he was a tiger, that tigers could be…difficult, personality-wise, but this was ridiculous. All I wanted to do was order my own food.

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