Sleighed: BBW Holiday Bear Shifter Paranormal Romance (Christmas Bears Book 1) by Harmony Raines

Author:Harmony Raines [Raines, Harmony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2016-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen – Pepper

“If you’ve finished jabbering, I’d like to get back to my nice warm fire,” Krampus said, clapping his hands as they approached.

“We just have to hitch the sleigh,” Pepper said.

“Leave it here, we can walk back to town.” It wasn’t a request, and so they all followed the half-goat, half-demon back across the hills. It was dark, and with no lights to show them which direction the village was in, they made sure they kept up with him. Although Bas and Dan managed to match his strides, Pepper had to develop a kind of skipping action to keep up. Bas wrapped her hand in his and pulled her along, which helped, but by the time the lights of a small village came into view, she was hot and breathless. Krampus neither cared nor commented.

The hills evened out, and the lights of the town grew brighter. When they were within a hundred meters, Pepper finally broke her silence, and asked, between gasps. “You can’t just walk in there.”

Krampus stopped dead in his tracks and turned to face her. “Can’t I?”

“Do they know who you are?” she asked.

He sighed and looked over his shoulder, down at the small group of houses nestled together. “Not exactly. But they will if your Dasher doesn’t get back with my Christmas Magic.” He took a small box out of his pocket, the kind used for snuff in days gone by. With a delicate touch she would never have expected of a beast like this, he took a small amount of something between his finger and thumb, and then lifted his hand and sprinkled it on his head. “Happy?”

Pepper and Bas stood dumbstruck as the Krampus slowly morphed into an old man. Only Dan took it all in stride. “You knew?” Pepper accused.

“I’ve been doing this run with Dash for the last ten years. We see things. We know things. Some things more than other certain Peppers ever see.” He winked at Pepper and set off behind Krampus, who now walked like an old man, hunched over, with a beard covering his face, and long gray hair, which made him look like a wizard.

“Yep, and the weirdness never stops coming,” Bas said.

“I’m sorry you are involved in all this,” Pepper said.

“I’m not,” Bas said with a grin, which she only caught because the moon had risen high in the sky. “I could be sitting in my lonely cabin right now. Dozing with a good book. Instead, I’m living a fantasy. As a lawyer, I’ve heard people tell some stories as to why they have committed crimes. After tonight, I’m thinking I may have to reassess my level of belief in those stories.”

Pepper laughed. “So, I’m giving you an education.”

“In more ways than one,” he said. “And I don’t just mean about us being mates. The way Dan talks about you, and how you stopped me ripping the head off Krampus, you are a special person.”

“It’s OK, you don’t have to say nice things about me.

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