Bear No Defeat by Anya Nowlan

Author:Anya Nowlan [Nowlan, Anya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-03-15T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Jax

Something was not right.

Well, okay, truth be told a lot of things were “not right.” But none of those mattered. All that mattered was Alice.

The first time Jax had caught himself thinking like that, he’d done a double take and shaken it off. It couldn’t be, could it? Could she actually be his mate? It seemed ludicrous. Not only was their to-be marriage a sham to appease both of their parents, but they’d only just met. While some shifters were perfectly okay with sniffing up a scent and calling the first gal they found their mate, polar bears were made of a different stock.

What Jax had been always told, and what he had subsequently always believed as well, was that polar bears needed their time. That it was a slow burn, a careful one. Though they felt the pull almost immediately, it would take a while for the bear to settle on the woman completely, to be sure that she was for him. It made for some awkward courtship, especially when the woman in question was also a werebear, but the end result supposedly meant that the couple was bonded that much stronger.

Unless all of that was bullshit and Jax and his bear had recognized Alice as their mate right away and the rest of it was just wasting time. Jax scrunched his nose at the thought, his hands shoved in his pockets as he stalked the long rows of shelves of some convenience store in Gallant Falls, a reasonably large town about an hour and a half drive from Shifter Grove.

It was a treacherous trip because the roads were sometimes fairly non-existent during the winter season, but over the last few days, Jax had felt more and more that Alice needed a small breather. While the possibility that she needed a break from him had come up, he had quickly discarded the option and settled for some ambiguous “It all must be too much for her” variety of excuses. Maybe a day away would do her good, give her a moment to clear her head.

Except, of course, that it seemed to have actually made things worse.

Jax didn’t like that. He loathed it, in fact. He could practically smell her discomfort, the subtleties in her scent tipping him off that she was upset. Whenever he asked about what was bothering her though, she’d simply laugh it off, tell him it was nothing, and that he had to be imagining it.

But her phone hadn’t stopped ringing and buzzing and every time she looked at a text, he could see her pretty face twisting in anguish. A few times, he’d seen her toss worried glances at him, her gorgeous blue eyes filled with guilt, but before he could ask her anything, she’d have her nose in the phone again and would practically run away from him. It was odd. And disconcerting. And getting on his nerves, to be completely truthful.

“Alice,” he called, watching her disappear into the produce section.

He sighed under his breath, trudging after her.

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