Bound To Her Bear (Bear Bluff Clan 1) by Harmony Raines

Author:Harmony Raines [Raines, Harmony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2015-05-16T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve - Drew

Cursing herself, she waited for the waitress to bring the bill. Why hadn’t she simply let him hold her hand? Because she wanted more. And that scared her.

Now they sat in silence, their easy friendship seemingly in tatters. It was no good, despite how much she wanted to spend time with him; she would have to say no. Or open herself up to those deep desires that lay inside of both of them.

“Here, I’ll pay my half,” she said opening her purse.

“No, it’s my treat.”

“I can’t; it’s not like this is a date,” she said. Why did she insist on making things worse between them?

“Listen, Drew, I invited you here. Let it be my treat, please.”

When he said it like that, she knew it would be churlish of her to refuse. And she didn’t want to offend him. “OK. Thank you,” she said closing her purse. “My treat next time.”

“That would be great. I was beginning to think there wouldn’t be a next time.”

“I’m sorry. I overreacted.”

“Apology accepted, now let’s get home and see what our parents have been up to.”

He came around and pulled her chair out for her, so that she could get up. Then he held her arm, and she let him, leaning ever so slightly against him as they went outside. A cool autumn chill was in the air and she shivered. Instinctively he wrapped his arm around her and pulled her close. She closed her eyes and allowed herself to imagine what it would be like if he was her man. Then she pulled herself together and told herself there was no point heading for heartache. He wasn’t her mate, he was someone else’s, and this was just going to end badly if she let herself feel deeply for him.

“So, I was thinking,” he said when he held the car door open, taking his warm body heat away from her. “Tomorrow I am going to go in and see Stuart.”

“Good for you, Eirik. I think it might be just what he needs to hear.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, think about it. You say yourself that you haven’t been too sure of yourself. Worried how the others perceive you. Maybe he picked up on that. Once you show him you are up for the job, maybe he will give you more power.”

“You mean I need to show him I have a backbone?”

“Yes. You need to show him you can do the job. That you want to do the job. Because from what you’ve said, up until now, I don’t think you have known whether you are man enough to do it.”

He put his hand up to rest on the roof of the car, his body almost wrapped around hers. “You are very perceptive. Since my father died, I have felt that I might be weak like he was. That if someone tried, they would be able to persuade me to hand over the deeds to whatever they wanted. I mean my dad did that when Carson showed him a birth certificate that said he was his son.

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