RANCHER BEAR’S BABY(56)

I nearly gasped as the move left the bottom few inches of his defined abs showing. Instantly, I felt my panties dampening. I sucked in a sharp breath. That had certainly never happened to me before.

Almost immediately, the cowboy tilted his head back and took a deep breath in with his eyes closed. Then, he turned and focused on me. His eyes bore into me with a fierce intensity, his expression was… something that I couldn’t quite place.

Even from where I was standing, I could see how stunningly handsome he was. If that word even covered it. Just watching him sent sparks of flaming passion to every nerve ending in my body as though, at the slightest breeze, I’d become a blazing inferno. Wowza. I’d never experienced an attraction on that deep a level before.

“Look at that scar. Jesus, he’s like Frankenstein.” One of the teens was making fun of him as she lifted the cigarette to her mouth.

They hadn’t noticed me yet, but I was about to make my presence known. There was nothing I abhorred more than meanness.





CHAPTER 2: Michael




I’d smelled her the second she stepped foot on our property. I had an idea that it was no coincidence that she smelled like strawberries. It was my favorite sweet, after all. I’d felt her presence immediately, and the closer she got, the more painful it was to avoid her. But, I did.

I kept to the shadows and stayed out of her way, even as she got closer and closer. I never let myself look at her, worried that if I did, I might lose my barely maintained control.

But, when I’d smelled her arousal, not fifty feet from me, I couldn’t help but look. There she was. Right there. Wet, ready, and… perfect.

Her long blonde hair curled softly around her angelic face. She couldn’t have been more than a few inches over five feet tall, with soft curves that I desperately wanted to trace with my tongue. Bright blue eyes widened when I looked at her and her cheeks flushed pink. The long dress she was wearing got caught in a breeze and it danced, revealing a slit up the side that teased my cock more than any lover had ever been able to do with hands or mouths.

I wanted her. My bear came to life in that instant and I damn near shifted right then and there. Mine.

My bear was a nasty bear, dark and unable to remember that we were part human, as well. I gritted my teeth and did every breathing technique I knew to keep the change from happening.

Just as it passed and I dropped my hat back on my head, she turned a hard look on the kids who were smoking against the barn wall. I’d heard them laughing about my scars, but it had barely penetrated the lust-filled fog she created around me.

I watched as she stomped her little feet over to them, her breasts swaying in a way that made me feel like I could shoot my load just from watching them.

“You know, it’s bad enough that you snuck away to smoke a cigarette, but to hear you making fun of someone, too? You should be ashamed of yourselves. Being nasty to other people isn’t cool. It just makes you look trashy and ugly. Put the cigarette out and get back out there with the rest of your class, or I’m taking names and having your teachers assign you detention.”

Her voice was sweet, too sweet to scare a rowdy bunch of bear shifter teens. They just stared at her with blank expressions before laughing and rolling their eyes.

My blood boiled and I dropped the ax I’d picked back up. There was no way they were going to treat her like that and get away with it. My bear foamed at the mouth at any chance for violence.

“Are you kidding me? Don’t be jerks, guys, go back to the carnival.” She put her hands on her hips and frowned, her lips going ridiculously pouty.

They still didn’t listen to her, but I stepped up behind her and growled at them. “Now.”

My voice was hoarse from not being used often and the order came out more like a deep bark, than an actual voice. It did the job, though. Every one of them could sense my dominant bear. The kids scattered faster than bugs in the light, leaving me alone with a woman that I shouldn’t be alone with.

She spun around and grinned up at me. Up close, she looked even more like an angel than she did from far away. Her big blue eyes could’ve made Bambi look threatening. Her nose was tiny and cute, but her mouth… Her mouth made my dick harden painfully in my pants.

“Thank you. Apparently, I’m not threatening to teens. Kindergarteners are much more intimidated by me, I promise.”

I frowned down at her, feeling things that I shouldn’t be. I should be running away. It was dangerous to be so close to her. Dangerous for her. “I’m not so sure.”

She giggled and tucked a piece of hair behind her ears. “I’m Daisy. I just moved to town a couple of months ago.”