Bear with Me (Half-breed Shifter Series) by Miranda Stowe Read Free Book Online Page A

riding up and down on his cock
and squeezing him tight within her aching, hungry muscles.
    “I knew it,” he panted as he
dug his fingers into her hipbones and urged her on, his rough palms molding her
soft, giving flesh. “I fucking knew it. We are so hot together. So fucking
explosive.”
    “Brick.” She couldn’t slow
down. Couldn’t stop to catch her breath. Her body was building again, reaching
for that prize high in the sky. She felt drunk off him; she needed it all. And
so much more.
    “God...damn.” He groaned and
then surged up, flipping her onto her back until he was the one on top. Bending
up her knees, he spread her open and held her down on the bed so she pinned in
place and couldn’t move, and could only feel him as he surged forward,
thrusting so deep her cervix couldn’t take the pressure. She came on a low
keen, her fingernails biting into his tense ass cheeks and holding him all the
way inside her while she milked the cum right out of his body.
    Once he was drained, he
collapsed on top of her, his large body heavy, but a warm, secure weight she
welcomed.
    A moment of clarity hit her,
stealing her into her sex-fogged brain. She’d just had sex with Brick. Twice.
Fast, hot, sweaty sex that had been better than any sex she’d ever had before.
That might’ve been just because she was in the middle of her mating heat, but
still...it had been with Brick. Her Brick. Her loyal best friend who’d always
harmlessly flirted with her but had never stepped over the line into... this territory.
    But strangely enough, she
didn’t think he minded. In fact, he seemed to rather enjoy it. She smiled and
stroked his face. “I’m so glad it was you.”
    He lifted up onto his elbow
just enough to look her in the eyes. For once, his brown gaze didn’t tease. “It
was always going to be me,” he said with a certainly that thrilled her. “From
the first moment you pulled me into your arms and hugged me, I’ve been yours,
Rhea. I’ve just been waiting for you to realize it. I’m just...I’m so fucking sorry
it happened this way.”
    The joy of his confession
dimmed with his last sentence. Happened this way? What was he talking abou—
    He softly slid his finger
over the pulse on her neck, and a soreness there made her frown. She lifted her
fingers to the spot and gasped when she realized they were puncture wounds.
    “You...you marked me? Oh, my
God, you bastard .”
    She started to panic. She was
mated. She hadn’t planned on getting mated. She didn’t even remember him doing
it. How could this possible happen? She hadn’t even been conscious. Didn’t she
have to at least be conscious?
    Rhea shoved at his chest, but
he only held her more firmly in his arms. Then the fucking prick grew hard
inside her. What was worse, her body responded. He pulled out and pushed back
in, and she panted, aching for his next plunge, craving the fullness he put in
her, needing him to stretch her wider and brand his body into hers.
    Tears slipped down her cheeks
as her body warred with her brain. She wanted to hate him and rail at her, but
if he stopped fucking her, she’d probably kill him. “I hate you,” she sobbed as
her hips lifted to greet his eager thrust and her legs wound around his waist
to make sure he couldn’t leave.
    “No.” He shook his head and
cased her face between his hands. “Damn it, Rhea. Don’t do this. You know I
would never...not unless I absolutely had to. I did it to save you.”
    And that was the problem. He
hadn’t done it because he loved her. He’d been forced to bite her because it
was the only way to save her.
    “But I wasn’t even awake to
agree to it,” she sobbed. She would’ve stopped him if she’d been awake. She
never would’ve let him sacrifice himself for her like that.
    “Fuck.” He pressed his
forehead to hers and thrust into her heavily, unrelenting in his fucking. But
agony filled his gaze as he watched her cry. His thumbs swiped them away but
she just kept