Bearly Hanging On (Alpha Werebear Shifter Paranormal Romance) (The Jamesburg Shifters Book 6) by Lynn Red Read Free Book Online

ceiling, and let out a roar. West held his ground, tattered plaid hanging off his shoulders.
    "Go," he snarled. "Don't make another mistake."
    A look of realization came over West, and he backed away slightly. "You're scared," he said, as he shifted back to human form, clothes barely covering him. "I know that look." He was nodding. "I'd know it anywhere. I've had it before. I had it when I..." he trailed off. "Doesn't matter. Take the clothes, take the food. It ain't my way to hold someone's fear against them."
    His zen-like calm was more disconcerting to the panicked bear than was aggression. West turned, but froze when he grabbed the door handle. "Just don't do anything to that figure," he said with a grin. "Take the clothes, take the food, and there's even some money in the jeans. Take it. But if you hurt Han, I'm coming for you."
    "Aw, hell, Elena," Ryan heard as he collected the jeans, and stuffed another hamburger into his mouth to calm his starving stomach. "He's just scared. He's probably a good kid, just..."
    Confusion overwhelmed him again, but this time, somehow, Ryan Drake managed to control himself long enough to escape into the woods.
    And the thought to hurt the Han Solo figure never crossed his mind.

-5-
“There are three kinds of people in the world. There’s me, there’s you, and... wait no, there are a whole lot more than three.”
-Erik
    "H e did what?" Jamie asked louder than she meant to be, loud enough that the guy in the next office banged on the wall for the fifth time that day. It had been a long morning of misfiled reports and one supremely whiny alpha.
    "I told you three times already," Elena said. "West won't say anything because he doesn't want anything to happen. He just keeps saying that the guy was scared, and he used to be like that and blah, blah, blah."
    "You're not too happy about this, huh?"
    "You're goddamn right, I’m not! He was trying to steal a cow, and then after keeping him in my guest room for three days, he shifts and tries to fight my mate?"
    "Well, I can't blame you. He didn't break anything, did he?"
    A moment's pause.
    "Well, no." She coughed. "I guess not."
    "Shut up! Some people actually have to work in here!" The voice from the next office, that belonged to the senior administrative assistant - a new wolf, young one from Erik's pack - who was very busy trying to prove his value to Erik. Norman Jeffress, the baby wolf. She laughed every time she saw him, but he was a hardworking kid, even if he was majoring in history under Professor Duggan.
    She couldn't hold everything against him, no matter how much she wanted to.
    Jamie accidentally laughed, or rather, snorted into the phone. "Sorry," she said. "New guy is really laying it on thick."
    Elena laughed next. "Yeah, you think he'd figure out by now that no one works at the courthouse."
    Jamie, ever the picture of elegance, snorted, and then made a sort of honking sound. "God, I know," she said. "At least Erik and Izzy have stopped doinking all the time."
    "How's that going, by the way?"
    "Them not doinking? He's getting cranky, but—"
    "No, no, her being pregnant with a wolf. I can't imagine how much of a saggy, baggy mess I'm going to be when West decides he wants to have a bouncing cub."
    "Oh God, don't even start," Jamie said. "Imagine how stretched out I'll be when—" she caught herself before she said anything, but really, she already said plenty. Elena, however, chose not to say anything, which was pretty damn nice of her, considering.
    "Wait a second," she said about four breaths later.
    Yeah, okay maybe she didn't gracefully pass up the chance.
    "Did you just admit that you're doinking the guy you bit and then put up in my house while he got over being a vamp snack?"
    Jamie took a deep breath and pinched the bridge of her nose. "I, er, well first thing, can we stop saying 'doink'? It reminds me of the noise a clown hammer makes. You know, the big inflatable rubber things you win at the fair?"
    Elena imitated