Mischief in a Fur Coat by Sloane Meyers Read Free Book Online Page A

she felt at least something for him, too. After all, he’d kissed her twice now, and she hadn’t run screaming in the other direction.
    She had been spending a lot of time in the woods with her canvases and paints, which had made avoiding her easier. Drew smiled as he stepped out of the one room cabin into the bright autumn sunshine. It made him happy to know Hope was enjoying the art supplies. Maybe in a few days he would allow himself to go into the forest to check on her. If things heated up a little bit from there, well, so be it.
    “Drew! Get over here!” Bash yelled out. Bash, short for Sebastian, was an Alaskan grizzly, and one of the tallest shifters in the group. At this moment, Drew could see Bash’s face with a wide grin on it, popping out of the second story window of the cabin addition.
    “What’s up, buddy?” Drew asked. Before Bash could answer, Mia stuck her head out of the window, too, crowding Bash to the side in her excitement.
    “We finished the addition,” Mia said. “It’s all done! Come inside and see.”
    Drew was grinning now, too. “Completely done?” he asked, making big strides toward the building. Bash and Mia disappeared from the window, and Drew started walking toward them. The front of the cabin boasted a giant porch, with enough room for the whole group to hang out. The inside of the cabin was all bedrooms, and stairs led to the second floor where five more bedrooms were located. Each clan member would have his or her own room. Since there was a kitchen and living room area in the original cabin, there had been no need to add one on to the addition.
    “What do you think?” Bash asked. “It’s simple, but there’s a lot of space.”
    Mia nodded. “I’m excited to have my own room. It’s going to be easier to sleep now that I won’t have to listen to the two of you snoring all night.”
    Drew laughed. “Hey now, Bash is the one who snores. Don’t blame his faults on me.”
    Bash rolled his eyes, and Mia just laughed.
    “Well, regardless of who’s responsible for the snoring, it’s going to be nice to be rid of it,” she said.
    Drew ran his hands along the side of the wall, relishing the smooth feeling of the strong wood. “This building is awesome,” he said. “All of you have put so much time and effort into this. You should really be proud of yourselves.”
    Mia beamed, but Bash shrugged. “Yeah, well, what else were we going to do with our time?” he asked. “There’s not much else to do out here.”
    “Oh, come on. You just have to be creative,” Mia said. “You’ve let your brain rot away with technology for too long. There’s always fun to be had, if you look hard enough for it.”
    “The first round of fun we should have is a proper barbeque,” Drew said. “My old clan treated barbeques as practically sacred, but we haven’t had any since you all arrived. I think it’s high time to celebrate, now that the cabin is done. Next time I go to town I’ll pick up supplies.”
    “Yes!” Mia said. “I love barbeques. Make sure you get some beer. I know it’s not easy to haul all that stuff from town, but, seriously: you can’t have a proper barbeque without beer.”
    Drew laughed. “Fair enough. I’ll do my best. It takes a lot of beer to keep nine bears happy, though. Where is everyone else, by the way?”
    “They all went hiking again. They wanted a break from working on the cabin. But there wasn’t much left to do, anyway,” Bash said.
    “Well, everyone except your girlfriend went hiking,” Mia said. “Hope went to paint again. It’s pretty much all she does these days.”
    Drew raised an eyebrow. “She’s not my girlfriend,” he said. “Just because I bought her a bunch of art supplies doesn’t mean we’re a thing.”
    Mia laughed. “Okay, if you say so. But if you really want to act like you’re not into her then you should stop looking at her like a puppy dog in love. It’s so obvious.”
    Bash laughed, and Drew