Bear With Me: Bear Shifter Paranormal Romance by Zoe Chant

Author:Zoe Chant [Chant, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-16T18:30:00+00:00

THREE WEEKS LATER

JAMIE

Rain.

Again.

So much for summer, Jamie thought, peering out through the tent flap.

She’d checked the forecast before she left, and it had been hot, dry, and hot and dry. So much for long-term forecasts.

“At least the farmers will be happy,” she grumbled to herself. And at least I have a good reason to still be out here. Good enough to make putting up with this weather worth it.

If it wasn’t for the birds, she would have packed up and splashed her way out days ago. It had been five days since she’d last gotten a good look at the condor family. If her rough calculations were correct, the egg could hatch any day now—or might already have hatched. But it was too dangerous to climb up the lookout tree when the weather was this bad, and she hadn’t wanted to go down to the river-bank where the protective parents had dive-bombed Mark that night. It must be bad enough being a bald-headed bird in a rainstorm without some random human coming to gawk at you.

Her mind wandered, and not for the first time. It was the same old problem again. The rain might have kept her away from the condors, but staying cooped up in the tent meant Jamie had had a lot of time to think.

The first few days after Mark had left, the main thing she had thought was You idiot! You let him get away!

So much for strong resolve.

She had dealt with that by keeping herself busy. It worked about as well as it had done back at the center, but at least it meant she got a lot of stuff done. She spent as much time as she could watching the condors, taking photographs and noting down their behavior. Once she was back in civilization she would put together a media release and photo blog about the mated pair to promote the conservation center’s work, in addition to the more official study logs.

On the days when the birds stubbornly refused to do anything more exciting than plop down on the egg and not move for hours on end, she went for walks around the river and surrounding hillside. The condors weren’t the only interesting creatures out in the mountains—Jamie saw hundreds of other birds, lazy lizards basking in the sun, even a glimpse of a bobcat family playing in the undergrowth.

That last one had reminded her of what she’d said to Mark about wildlife in the mountains. And then the rain had started, and she’d run out of things to distract her from thinking about him.

It was all so confusing. That wildfire lust that had hit her at the wedding, the moment she laid eyes on him—it had been incredible, but also terrifying. As though something inside her had made a decision and not waited for her conscious self to give an opinion. Her entire self, body and soul, were urging her to be with him—not just there in the forest, but forever.

It had been the hardest thing in the world to push away that bone-deep urge and make Mark leave.

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