Some Bear to Love: BBW Bear Shifter (BWWM) Romance Standalone by Terry Bolryder Read Free Book Online

and tended to stay awake on nights like this, making sure no one got any bright ideas about night swimming without waking the staff. And he’d just been lucky that she’d decided to come to him first after all. Not Wilson.
    There would have been a pretty intense confrontation if he’d found them together, naked. He gritted his teeth and told himself it was just about propriety, but as he saw her emerge, kelpie like, from the water after dipping her head under, he knew it was much more than propriety he was worried about.
    He was worried about his heart.
    He sat on the platform in his board shorts and watched her tread water. “Are you…?” How did one ask such a thing?
    She shook her head and then dunked underwater, leaving her braids floating above her. When she surfaced, she had a grin on her face and a piece of material in her hand, which she tossed to him. He caught it with a stern look and set it on the platform. He’d only held it for a second, but he knew the feel of a built-in bra.
    Warmth moved up into his neck and other uncomfortable parts of his body as he saw the tops of her beautiful, smooth breasts in the water. She was glistening, glorious, and he wanted nothing more than to get into the water and make her his. Like he was some cursed ship captain and she was some damn harpy or mermaid calling him to his doom.
    She went under again and this time surfaced with the sarong, which she handed him. His mouth went dry. That meant there was only…
    She went under again and tossed him small swim bottoms. He gulped and adjusted his sitting position. Damn, not a stitch on. He longed for more light so he could see her beautiful body fully illuminated. He could only make out the vague shape of it, the curves down to her dark legs that fluttered in the water. Her smooth shoulders glistened with ocean water, those gorgeous braids floating around her tantalizingly. He wanted to put his hand in them and pull her close for another possessive kiss.
    She opened those full, perfect lips and her eyes glistened playfully in the moonlight. “Your turn,” she said.
    He swallowed. It was now or never. Be the stern ship captain he’d always been who’d never allowed himself fun, never gone out of line, never taken a risk, or get in the water with this magnificent creature who pulled him to do things he’d never considered, feel things he’d never imagined.
    He was a straight person, and his path had always been in a line. She was a magnet pulling him off his track, but he couldn’t help but like it, even as a part of him felt dimly that this was going to be his doom.
    “Come on in,” she said, grinning and moving the water around, causing her breasts to rise and fall in the water in a tantalizing way that made his mouth dry. “The water’s fine.”
    The cool ocean breeze swirled around him as he slipped into the sea, letting the cool water caress his skin as he swam toward her. With one smooth motion, he reached down, undid the tie of his shorts, and slid them off to toss them on the platform.
    Her eyes heated and locked on his, then ran down the length of his body.
    They were naked. This was stupid. He wasn’t looking for anything but tonight, and she wasn’t the type he was looking for if he were.

    B ut still , he ran his hands over her smooth waist, put one hand in her braids to cradle her head, and pulled her to him, relishing in the smooth feel of her curves against him as he took her mouth for the second time.
    Her body was warm and soft, plush against him as he made love to her with his mouth. He kissed her lips, her neck, her shoulders, all bared to him and salty in the ocean, but it didn’t matter. He kicked to keep them treading water as he explored her body.
    His hands dropped to her chest, and he gently kneaded her smooth bared breasts. “You’re so gorgeous. You infuriate me in every way, but you’re gorgeous,” he said.
    She wrapped her arms around him and leaned back, offering herself up to him.