Breakwater: Hyde (BBW Bad Boy Space Bear Shifter Romance) (Star Bears Book 4) by Becca Fanning Read Free Book Online Page B

us, but I get the feeling he’s not about to start thinking that way about you.” Thalia waited for her to expound on the subject, but after a moment of silence Annie just looked back at her. “When do you want to interview me?”

    “I’m still a little to terrified of you to ask,” Thalia told her truthfully. “Maybe later?”

    “Well, just let me know,” Annie said, sounding amused. Thalia took that as her dismissal and hightailed it back to the main body of the ship.

    Without a clear goal in mind, she once again wound up wandering aimlessly once again only to wind up in a massive space filled with machinery. Dominic looked up from his pad in the corner he’d been sitting in and regarded her calmly.

    “Um, hi,” Thalia said after a beat.

    “Hello,” he said. “Can I help you?”

    “Nope, just looking for somewhere quiet,” she told him.

    “Well, stay as long as you like,” he told her, turning back to his tablet.

    Thalia wondered for a moment if this was one of those times she was supposed to read in between the lines and be polite and walk away, then decided she didn’t care and sat down by a wall, leaning back against the cool metal and feeling the thrum of the engines reverberate through her body.

    She pulled up the article on her multi-tool, scanning over it. She’s had most of it done before meeting Hyde, only needing him to add a bit of pathos to the scathing overview of statistics and details on the rise of anti-shifter activity in the past decade as well as a list of evidence of Tillman’s many, many misdeeds. She located parts that sounded too dry and tweaked the wording, finding places to slip in quotes that sounded vaguely like what Hyde would say if he wasn’t a sarcastic asshole about ninety-five percent of life. She was in the middle of debating whether or not it would be over the top to write about the glimmer of unshed tears in his eye when Dominic unexpectedly began talking.

    “Is that the article? The one about Hyde?” he asked, nodding at her holoscreen.

    “Yes? Well, it’s not just about Hyde, but yes it’s the article that I chased Hyde down to write and have since decided to write without him because I want people to be more sympathetic towards the shifters on Serkot, not less,” Thalia said.

    Dominic tilted is head. “I thought journalists were supposed to be moralistic.”

    Thalia snorted. “You don’t meet a lot of journalists, do you?” She turned so her back was towards him and he could read over her shoulder. “At the moment, it’s mostly just facts and evidence.”

    “I like the part where you describe Hyde as a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in sarcasm wrapped in the body of a Greek god,” Dominic said.

    Thalia laughed. “Thank you. Unfortunately, like everything else in red, I need to replace it with something more professional.”

    Dominic hummed, thoughtful. “You like Hyde, then?”

    “Okay,” Thalia said, setting her multi-tool down, “why is everyone asking me that?”

    “Because he needs someone,” Dominic replied, “and you… he lets you in, I think.”

    “Oh my God. I’m totally the girl at your engagement party in the red dress,” Thalia breathed out, eyes wide. Dominic looked at her curiously and she waved him off. “Don’t worry about it. I’m just going to…” she picked her multi-tool back up and starting working again.  

    There was surprisingly little left to do. She had planned it out so that Hyde’s personal story would enhance but not dominate the article, so within half an hour she was finished and edited. She looked down at her multi-tool in disbelief and mild suspicion, like it all was about to disappear.

    “Done?” Dominic asked her.

    “I think I am,” she told him.

    He looked down at his tablet. “Hyde gets off shift in thirty minutes. You should show him.”

    “Thank you,” she told him, standing and stretching. Her legs were stiff and her spine popped uncomfortably, but she felt