Librarian Bear by Chant Zoe

Author:Chant, Zoe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-29T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

His oso said, Told you she'd understand, as soon as Matthew left the house.

Matt, out loud, said, "She fell over the back of a couch. I'm not sure that qualifies as understanding."

The bear sent a memory from Matthew's teen years. He'd been exploring the Apennine mountains in Italy, above the city of Reggio di Calabria, because he'd heard stories about shifters there. He'd slipped on a steep hill, and his oso had truly enjoyed the head-over-heels tumble. It clearly felt Sarah's slide over the back of the couch was the same general kind of experience.

Oso, Matthew said with a groan, humans aren't as good at rolling as bears are, and it's different to fall over the back of something flat than down a hill anyway.

This was obviously an angle the bear hadn't considered. It sat silently a moment, then returned to territory it was confident of. She understood.

And in the end, Matt couldn't really argue with that. Sarah hadn't just understood. She'd been dismayed that no one in Virtue had shared the town's secret with her before then. That was more than understanding. That was pretty close to embracing. And she had been worried he might get in trouble for telling her, or that she might be in trouble for knowing.

He had wanted to explain why he was certain neither of them would be in trouble. No one would expect him to keep that kind of secret from his mate. She would be expected to know.

The only unexpected thing was that Matthew himself had no idea how to deal with a fated mate on one hand, and the job he'd worked so hard for on the other. If he'd only found Sarah in the city, it would have been so easy. But although he'd spent his childhood in a village, he'd never imagined living in a small town. He just really thought of himself as a big city person.

"I still have the job in New York to go to," he said quietly. "That hasn't changed."

If a bear had hands to throw upward in exasperation, his oso would have done so. Since it didn't, it could only sigh expressively. She understands, it said. Now you need to.

"Leave it alone, oso," Matthew said softly. "Just leave it alone."

The fact that the bear did somehow didn't reassure Matthew at all.

* * *

He was about halfway down the block, on his way back to the town center, when Sarah's old truck pulled up beside him again and she leaned across the bench seat to roll down the window. "Hi there, stranger."

Matthew, bemused, looked back the way they'd both come, then at her with his eyebrows lifted. "World's fastest bath?"

"Michelle Whelan called right after you left. Tom Barlow called her and said we were asking about the town charter and the old council books. She said he sounded like he had a bee in his bonnet and she wanted to know what I knew. Will you get in, please, so I'm not shouting about

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