The Firefighter's Mate by Jayne Ripley

Author:Jayne Ripley
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: BBW, werewolves, paranormal romance
ISBN: 9781941692929
Publisher: Etopia Press
Published: 2016-06-24T04:00:00+00:00

Gabriela wasn’t looking forward to reliving the night’s terrifying events, even if it was necessary to report them to Detective Carpenter. She was exhausted, but she’d had trouble sleeping even before everyone had shown up. Every time she closed her eyes she found herself opening them again, looking for a fire. She was grateful Luke was here with her now. She felt safer. Protected. She felt loved.

Or was she simply projecting how she’d come to feel onto him? She looked at him. He was holding her hand in both of his, wrapping it in his warmth, his hands so big that hers completely disappeared. He nodded to her encouragingly, his gaze never leaving hers. How had he come to mean so much to her in such a short time? It felt as though they’d always been meant to be together. That was silly though, because in high school she’d barely noticed him. She’d been too busy crushing on one of the linebackers who never gave her the time of day. She closed her eyes and tried focus her drifting thoughts back on recent events.

Her throat was sore and she had a few minor bruises. Aside from that, she’d checked out fine. She wanted to get home. To Luke’s home, because he’d invited her there. And she wanted to thank him, to love him, in every possible way. She quickly stopped that line of thought, because the fantasies she had of him spreading her out on his bed and fucking her hard and fast were turning her on and this was really not the time, what with the bear shifter detective in the room and so on. Strangely enough, surviving the fire had made her body yearn for his caresses even more than it had been aching for his touch already.

She took a deep breath, opened her eyes, pulled herself together. Then she started telling the detective what she remembered. She began with how she’d heard something outside—a shovel knocked over—and the goats getting upset.

“Did you see anyone out there after you heard the noise?” the detective asked.

“No. I was scared, but I convinced myself it was a raccoon. I double-checked that the doors were locked. I didn’t want to go outside, so I only looked around from the windows.”

Detective Carpenter nodded. “Smart.”

She gave him a half-hearted smile, not believing she deserved the praise. Luke squeezed her hand reassuringly.

She continued relating the details of the night, explaining how she’d later dozed off and what an idiot she’d been, leaving the phone handset in the kitchen, believing there wasn’t any danger. She skipped over her odd dream, because he probably wouldn’t understand her people’s belief in what a dream about water and tears might mean. She wasn’t sure she believed it entirely either, even though something catastrophic had happened only minutes later. She jumped to the part where she’d woken and smelled the gasoline and heard noises inside the house, and then how she’d seen the figure in the hallway as she’d made a break for the phone to call the police.

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