Bear in the Rough: Bear Shifter Romance (Broken Hill Bears Book 1) by Ariana Hawkes

Author:Ariana Hawkes [Hawkes, Ariana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Luna Negra Press
Published: 2016-05-11T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

The second the door closed, Freya, Marin and Eloise all burst into tears, crying with big, jerking sobs, in a mixture of relief, anger and disbelief. At last, Freya wiped her face on her sleeve, all cried out.

“How the hell can that animal stand there so calmly and tell us that we’re going to live as prisoners here?” she exclaimed. “Like it’s nothing. When I get out of here, I’m going to take them down, every last one of those duplicitous bastards. They fight in all these shows, and have all these fans, like they’re heroes, and then they kidnap innocent women. I’m not surprised they’re kept behind glass and fences.”

“What do you mean?” Marin said, blowing her nose.

“At the wrestling matches. The fighters are separated from the audience by bullet-proof glass because they’re so dangerous.”

“And yet we’ve just been close to them and they haven’t hurt us,” Eloise said in a tone almost of wonder. “They seem a lot like humans.” Freya snorted.

“Humans who think it’s acceptable to kidnap people. They’re animals, believe me.”

“I’ve never seen a human that size either,” Eloise said. “That guy scared the hell out of me. He’s like a muscle machine.”

“You should see him fight,” Freya replied.

“He was the one you watched at the wrestling match?” Marin said.

“Yup. He was fighting someone around the same size as him, and he beat him to a pulp. When he finished, the guy was KO’d. It was a mess.” The girls stared at her in shock.

“Wow. He gives me the creeps,” Eloise said.

“Mmm-hmm,” Marin agreed.

“Me too,” Freya said, after an almost unnoticeable pause. But it was only half the truth. He gave her the shivers, to be more accurate. She was thinking about that kiss in the forest. She was so, so scared when he caught her. She’d been running blindly, well aware that it was getting darker and darker, that it was potentially very dangerous being out there alone, and that she had no plan for getting away from her kidnappers. But she couldn’t stop running. She was full of guilt. It was her fault that the girls had come on the hike with her, and now she’d got them all into this terrible situation. It was her responsibility to get them out of it. And so she pressed on, thinking that if she kept going in a straight line, she’d get to the end of the wood eventually. And then she heard a loud, crashing sound, she turned, and Xander the Great snatched her. He was so huge and overbearing that she thought he was going to rip her apart. Her heart was beating right out of her chest and she started to hyperventilate. But his hold was gentle, and somehow his scent and the expression in his big dark eyes was calming. And then he kissed her. A thrill raced all the way from her tingling lips to the core of her body. And then she bit him. She was scared, and furious at the way her body was responding to him.

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