Mountain Bear: BBW Bear Shifter Romance (Bear Haven Book 1) by Bolryder Terry

Author:Bolryder, Terry [Bolryder, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-09-15T07:00:00+00:00

9

Ruby and her friends walked down the center of Main Street, which was dirt and strewn with small pebbles. They talked and laughed, eating ice creams they’d gotten from the local general store.

The mountain breeze swirling around them was cool and refreshing, the kind of air you never smelled in New York. They were surrounded by mountains and green trees and old stores that looked like they probably hadn't changed since the sixties, alongside newer stores that had popped up since.

They stopped in front of an old store with a barbershop pole, and Ruby held a hand up to shade her eyes as they looked in through the dirty front window.

Harmony checked the hours on the door and sighed. “Closed today. Go figure. If he doesn’t even have enough business to stay open the whole week, how is he supposed to be able to take on help?”

Ruby shrugged. “Maybe he can’t.”

“We could use a hairdresser at our ranch,” a deep voice called from behind them.

Ruby and her friends flipped around to see the blond man from the other night at the bar. He looked like he’d just come out of a nearby shop and was lighting a cigarette and leaning against the wall as he watched them.

She glared at the secondhand smoke, and he put it out under his boot. He wore nicer clothes than the McAllisters, but she didn’t like the way he was looking at her.

Like she was a piece of meat. Literally.

But he hadn’t been a brute. That had been his henchman, Dwayne. And Dwayne had gotten what he deserved. She hoped this man wasn’t thinking of revenge for him.

“Unlike the McAllisters, our ranch is a little more high-end,” he said, walking forward and extending a hand, which none of the women accepted. “My name’s Wyatt Wilson, and I run the Star Fifty ranch, just over the way.”

Ruby sneered at him. “I don’t know who you are. But I do know that you got in a fight the other night over me, and your friend was disgusting.”

Wyatt looked genuinely distressed, his handsome features drawn tight. “I’m really sorry about that. You’re a beautiful woman, and we shouldn’t have left you alone with him. Loneliness in these parts can make a man crazy. But that’s no excuse to trifle with a lady.”

“Thank you,” Ruby said. “Anyway, we were just here to see the barber. I guess we’ll get on our way.”

Wyatt stepped forward and caught her by the arm. She scented something in the air, something hot and animal. She looked up at him, his face shaded by the cowboy hat he was wearing.

“Why don’t you think about coming to work for me? If I were you, I’d think twice about taking up with the McAllisters.”

She jerked her arm free. “I don’t know what you’re talking about, and I don’t listen to gossip.” She started to walk away. “Come on, girls.”

“I don’t know,” he said. “Maybe you’d be interested in hearing a little something about them. A secret.”

“Maybe not,” she said.

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