Bear Your Teeth (Alpha Werebear Paranormal Shifter Romance) by Lynn Red Read Free Book Online

stomach with the back of a rough, huge hand.
    “Here?” he asked again.
    “My mom wants me to marry you,” Rika whispered. “Also, she’s a hippie rabbit shifter. She could walk in with you on all fours behind me and not bat an eye. Although she might give you some pointers.”
    A look crossed Thor’s face that seemed a lot further from revulsion than Rika thought he’d give her. “You too?”
    “Me too, what?” she asked, nuzzling his neck and kissing a place that made him groan a little when she did. She even got a few goosebumps to pop up, which felt like she must be doing something right. One last suck on his neck, one last long inhalation of the scent of this man’s body and the vague remnants of CK1 he’d probably used eight hours ago.
    “Paprika, my parents named me Thor . Do you think they were Vikings or something?” He smiled, and she couldn’t help but snort a laugh.
    “So that’s what happened to you. I’m named after a spice, you’re named after a hammer throwing comic book character.”
    He nodded, a heavy look of fake sadness marking the big man’s face. “On the bright side, you weren’t named Coriander, and I wasn’t named Spider-Man.’
    That time, she laughed so hard, she started making the noise that Petunia always described as “somewhere between a horse and a pig, burping.” At first she tried to cover it, but just like he’d done with her teeth, Thor moved her hand.
    “Anybody who wants you to be anyone but who you are, they don’t deserve you.”
    “I’m pretty sure anyone who says stuff like that is just trying to get in my pants,” she shot back, but playfully.
    She went in for another nuzzle, after which she planned another kiss and then maybe unbuttoning his pants and basically throwing herself at him until he relented, but he held her still for a second. “I wish I was,” he said. “I mean – no, wait,” he stumbled around, getting more flustered as he tried to correct himself. “Sorry, I used to stutter pretty bad, I still do sometimes when I get a little too excited.”
    Rika’s lips trembled as she smiled. “There’s nothing to be nervous about. Well, I mean except for planning how you’re going to get away from me which, after that kiss? That ain’t gonna be easy.”
    He smiled, but he didn’t. There was something wrong, she just knew it before he said a word.  “What is it?” she asked, dread boiling up. “You’re about to say something I don’t want to hear, aren’t you?”
    He held her still, his fingers squeezing gently on Paprika’s shoulders in a rhythm that somehow closely matched her thudding heart. How had something that started so carefree and so comically impulsive, ended up so dramatic – and how did it happen so fast ? What even did happen? She wasn’t sure, really, but the look on his face spelled out Paprika’s anxiety with one perfect dimpled cheek and one arched eyebrow.
    “I came here to say goodbye,” was all he said. His tone was flat and soft.
    “Why,” she started, but cut herself off. “I mean, why? Why are you even here? You’re my dentist, what the hell are you doing in my house?”
    The look on his face was utter confusion, though to be fair, she did raise some good points. “You came here after I kissed you like an idiot, and then panicked and ran, to tell me you were moving? I thought you wanted to come and ask me out for coffee or something like a normal person!”
    To say he was taken aback is like saying the Mississippi is just a creek.
    He stuck his hands up in the air, deflecting the incoming torrents of cannonball-shaped accusations.
    She had her mouth open, about to lay in again, when he put a hand over her mouth. Paprika screamed something that’s probably better to have been muffled anyway. It took at least thirty seconds of squalling, pissed-off, furious rabbit rage until she finally relaxed.
    “You promise not to yell anymore if I take my hand off?”
    Rika nodded. Her eyes told a different