To Love a Bear by Emilia Hartley

Author:Emilia Hartley [Hartley, Emilia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-17T05:00:00+00:00

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Boomer watched his mate surface near the shore. She walked out of the water, letting it streak off her supple skin. When she looked back at him, the hunger in her eyes hadn’t disappeared. He felt it echo inside himself. He would give anything to carry her away from this chaos and finally claim her the way his beast begged him to.

She made a joke that he couldn’t hear and even Dominic laughed. Dominic didn’t laugh. When he pulled a fruity colored bottle from the cooler, she shook her head and reached for a can of beer. Boomer’s eyes nearly rolled back in his head. She fit in with them too well.

Hell, Emmy was bringing them together. Without her presence, there would have been at least one fight by now. The grill and ribs would be in the dirt. Someone would have burned themselves on it. Dominic would have thrown someone over the cliff.

This was tame compared to how the parties usually went. All because of the small woman that climbed the hillside once more.

“Do women like her grow out of the ground often? I need one like her,” Morgan half joked.

Boomer was tempted to pull his cousin beneath the water and let his mouth fill with water, but that wasn’t fair. Morgan had seen the mark. He knew to keep his distance.

On the hill, Emmy situated herself on the orange tarp. She threw her hands in the air, squealing as she flew down its slick surface and into the shallow water below. When she came up for air, her cackle was pure joy.

He was never going to give her back to humanity at this rate. Was there a future with her where she wasn’t in danger? One where his makeshift family of bears protected her? He didn’t know if he could let himself believe in the pipedream. The other bears had never been anything other than rough and aggressive.

He feared there would come a day when one of them wanted what he had. When they could no longer suppress the rage and greed of the beast inside them and tried to take her. What would Boomer do then? Would he be able to protect her, or would he find himself too late?

All of these questions weighed him down until he disappeared beneath the water. Fish darted around him. His hair floated on the current. The beast inside him hungered, but not for the food in the water. He saw her legs kicking beneath the waves and pushed toward her.

Boomer grinned before lifting toward the surface. Emmy squealed, but he gripped her legs. As he rose, she sat upon his shoulders. She panicked and reached to grasp his chin. It only brought a laugh out of him.

“This is why you have as many scars as you do! You’re crazy!” Her words were punctuated by laughter, giving away her joy.

“Want to do a water fight? We could put another woman on Morgan’s shoulders. Where did Orion go?”

She snickered. “Did you just

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