A Bond to Bear by Harmony Raines

Author:Harmony Raines [Raines, Harmony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2016-04-03T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine – Jared

Driving here, he thought over how he wanted things to work out. He knew how the fated mate thing worked, and it had never held much interest to him. Yes, of course he wanted to find his mate. However, after what had happened with his father, when Jared found out his own mate was a human too, he had decided that the only way to stop her straying was to have some kind of control over her. When he found out about her family, and how hard she worked to look after them, he realized this was how he could leverage his control.

His offer had been generous, he knew that. He also knew that the money would soon be gone on the debts the family had accrued and on medical help for her mom’s bad back. If he could make her see that if she played things his way, he would keep her as his mistress, then he would never have to worry about her straying. He would become like a drug to her; he would be her addiction.

Yet as he sat there, with her lips only an inch away, he understood that it was he who was addicted. That was something he couldn’t afford. He had to be strong, although when he tried to be, he had failed. The words that had come out of his mouth, those talking about a future together, and hinting about giving up work had come from a stranger.

Or from his bear.

Of course, his bear wanted them to be together, their lives intertwined, for her to be always in his bed. But Jared knew that this relationship was one-sided; only half of it knew the desperate need to have a mate in their life. And that half wasn’t Kelly.

Maybe he should have backed off, told her he had made a mistake, and driven her straight back to the city. She could have kept the money; it meant nothing to him. Even if she blabbed about the whole thing, he didn’t care, his ego could take it. However, as hard as he tried to summon up the strength to turn her away, he just didn’t have it in him.

So it was with defeat in his heart, not triumph that he eased forward, closing the distance between them, and kissed her for the first time. It took only a split second for him to know that the taste of her, the scent of her, would bind him to her. If he wasn’t careful, he was about to be completely lost to a woman who had no idea what she meant to him. Or even what he was.

The softest of sighs escaped her lips, and his cock hardened in his pants. He wanted to make her more than sigh, he wanted to claim her as his mate and damn the consequences, he would deal with them later. Right now he wanted to live in the present, not the past, and most definitely not the future.

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