Bear The Blaze (Firebear Brides 3) by Anya Nowlan

Author:Anya Nowlan [Nowlan, Anya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BBW, Interracial, Firefighter, Mail-Order Bride, Romance, Paranormal, Contemporary, Fiction, Forever Love, Adult, Erotic, Shifter, Mate, Suspense, Violence, Supernatural, Protection, Bachelor, Single Woman, Firebear Brides, Brothers, One Year, Scheming Relatives, Shifter Grove, Idaho, Family Homestead, Uncle's Will, Latina Mechanic, New Future, Dark Secret, Haunted Past, Arson Detective, Arsonist
Goodreads: 28105320
Publisher: Anya Nowlan
Published: 2015-12-04T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Ragnar

Sleep was fitful that night. He tossed in the bed, trying to find some kind of a position he would be comfortable in, and failing miserably. After a while, Ragnar was reduced to staring at the ceiling, deep in thought.

A lot of things were suddenly happening in his life. He’d gotten everything in order in Phoenix. Everything ran the way it was supposed to there. He had his schedule and he stuck to it and didn’t deviate. Having structure was important for an addict.

Pressing his hands behind his head, Ragnar stared into the darkness. He could make out the ridges in the wood, the small spines and shapes allowing his eyes to track lazily across the length of the ceiling. The room felt too empty. He felt too empty. A few years ago, it would have immediately made him reach for a bottle.

But this time, he actually had a reason.

The rest of the Hamiltons didn’t know this about him. He’d never shared it with anyone but Rhodes, and he was out of touch more than he was in Ragnar’s life these days. Searching for a reason why he’d fallen into the whiskey and neglected to get up for several years hadn’t been hard to find. He just had to turn over a couple of stones and rifle through his subconscious, and ta-da—a perfectly viable excuse.

Ragnar scoffed to himself. He wasn’t the kind of man to make excuses. Not anymore. Now, he knew that seeing his father die had done a number on both him and Rhodes. It was the guilt that got him, he figured. Rhodes had turned into an adrenaline junkie and Ragnar had flitted through life until he found a friend in the bottom of a glass. He had to count his blessings that he’d managed to find the strength, or more like his bear had managed to find the strength to get out of it when he did.

But times like this, his mouth was still dry and parched, longing for a taste of sweet abandon.

Seeing Slade and Sear had brought it all back. The memories he’d ignored, but now couldn’t understand how he hadn’t seen them before. Power of the mind: blocking out that which has the greatest potential to harm. On the other hand, it also took him a step closer to figuring out what was going on now.

The coincidences were far too large to be brushed away as random happenstance. The pattern was the same as twenty-plus years ago. And he was willing to bet that the culprits were too. And just like last time, the Hamilton brothers were in the thick of things.

Ragnar muttered a groan that was somewhere between a growl and a curse. If there’d been a bottle near him now, he was positive that he’d be tearing the cap off with his teeth and downing it with reckless abandon. The fires and the past were not the only things on his mind. Abigail Ramirez had managed to monopolize a large chunk of it too, and she was another “something” he wasn’t paying enough attention to.

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