Cowboy Bear's Christmas Surprise (Bear Shifter Holiday Romance) by Scarlett Grove

Author:Scarlett Grove [Grove, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-11-19T00:00:00+00:00

8

Just as they were taking off their coats and hanging them on the coat rack, there was a knock at the door.

Connor wasn't expecting anyone, but he had a good idea of who it was. He opened the door, and when he looked out onto the front porch, he saw that he was right.

“Mother,” he said flatly. She held a plate of Christmas cookies and an eager smile.

It wasn't that he didn't appreciate his mother. Because he did. She was a wonderful woman and she had been a wonderful mom. But she had not let up on him a single day in the last six years about finding a mate, settling down, and starting a family. Connor was definitely settled down and he had tried his darndest to find a mate. After all that searching for the woman of his dreams, he still hadn’t found her... until the day she crash-landed on his ranch right in front of him. Now here she was, but he still couldn't have her.

“I heard you had a stranger on the ranch,” Kathy Milton said, sliding through the front door.

She was wearing a green parka and fur-lined snow boots that she stomped off before she walked into the house. She slid out of her jacket and thrust it into Connor's face without even looking at him as she gazed with a too-wide smile at Mia. Mia, on the other hand, looked terrified. That was the exactly the opposite of what he wanted right now.

“And who is this?” his mother asked, moving toward Mia, holding a plate of frosted gingerbread men in her hands.

“Mother,” he started. “Nice of you to come over unannounced, but—”

“I'm Kathy Milton,” his mother said, reaching out to shake Mia's hand. “And who are you?”

“I’m Mia,” she said, taking the offered hand.

Connor just stood there with his arms folded, shaking his head. This was not good. Not good at all. His mother was going to press the subject of them being fated mates, getting married, and starting a family. It was going to scare Mia off completely.

Since she had announced earlier that morning that she could never get romantically involved with him, they had come a long way. He was beginning to think that maybe she was coming around, or maybe she was remembering something, but now with his mother here, all could be lost.

“You don't have a last name?”

“I still haven't remembered it.”

“I heard about what happened yesterday,” his mother said, moving toward the dining room with the plate of cookies in her hand.

She slipped the Christmas cookies onto the table and sat down, clearly expecting Connor and Mia to join her, which they did. But Connor immediately got back up to make a pot of coffee. Coffee seemed appropriate to go with cookies and it was a good excuse to get away from his mom.

“I can't remember a thing,” Mia said.

“I've heard all over town that you’re Connor’s fated mate and now that I can smell you, I can tell for myself that it's true,” she said.

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