Slade (BBW Bear Shifter Moonshiner Romance) (120 Proof Honey Book 5)

by Becca Fanning

  “First one to the Xbox gets to choose the game!” Rachel said.

  Logan ran into the other room and Rachel followed, waving goodbye to Harmony.

  Harmony drove home and changed. She’d picked out this outfit just for tonight, but now that she stood in front of the mirror in her bedroom, she felt a little nervous. She hadn’t slept with anyone in a long time and this lingerie left her feeling very exposed.

  But, it was Beck. Beck, who she’d gotten to know over the last two months, who’d become close to Logan and loved hanging out with him. Beck, who’d even watched Logan one night so Rachel and Harmony could have a girls’ night out. Beck, who she was not only going to bring into her bedroom tonight for the first time, but who she was also going to say “I love you” to tonight. She hadn’t said those words or felt like this in a really long time, either.

  There was a knock at her door, and her heart leapt. She was so filled with anticipation, her palms were already sweating. She opened the door slowly, revealing herself a little bit at a time.

  Beck stood watching with a smile of pure desire on his face. When the door was fully open, he took his time looking her up and down.

  “Dang, you are hot,” he said. He stepped into the house and closed the door behind him. “I almost can’t even look at you, you’re so hot.” He adjusted the crotch of his jeans. “You’ve already got me hard.”

  She smiled and walked backwards into the bedroom. He followed her and once they were in her room, he closed the door and wrapped her in a tight embrace. He pressed her back to the wall and kissed her.

  His body pressed against hers, trapping her between the hard wall and his hard cock. Her head felt light with desire, and every inch of her body longed for him.

  “It’s been so long,” she whispered.

  “We’ll take it slow.”

  “I don’t think I want you to.” She lifted his t-shirt and pulled it over his head. She ran her fingers along his muscles, stopping to pinch his nipples.

  He raised an eyebrow at her and reached out to do the same. She squirmed and bit her lip.

  “Do you like that?” he asked.

  “Yes,” she breathed.

  “How about this?” He dragged his fingers down and slid them under her panties, then slipped his finger inside her.

  She let out a moan. “Yes,” she said.

  He pushed her panties to the ground and moved her legs farther apart. “You’re so wet already,” he said.

  “That’s because I want you so badly.”

  She unzipped his jeans and pushed them to the ground. Then she dropped to her knees in front of him and took his hard cock into her mouth.

  As she stroked and sucked him, he leaned against the wall with one hand, his other hand on top of her head. “That feels so good,” he said.

  “Good.” She stood up and kissed him.

  Then, she wrapped one leg around his waist. She was still pressed back against the wall. She pushed her shoulder back and thrust her hips forward, letting his dick slid between her wet lips. He rubbed against her clit, sending tingling waves through her body.

  He growled softly in her ear. “I’m afraid I’m going to have to take you right now. Foreplay time is over.”

  He picked her up and pressed her whole back against the wall. Then he thrust his cock inside her, making her cry out in pleasure.

  He held her ass and moved her up and down on his dick, using the wall to press inside her deeper.

  “You feel so good,” she said. “Harder.”

  He obliged by thrusting in deeper and faster, slamming against her as hard as he could.

  “You’re going to make me cum any second,” he said.

  But she cried out right then as the waves of pleasure rushed over her. She was dizzy with the feeling.

  He thrust in several more times, moaned loudly, then held her close to him, panting and leaning against the wall for support.

  After a minute, he pushed off from the wall and carried her to the bed.

  “That was so good,” she said, panting.

  “I agree.”

  He pulled her body close to his, curling around her so her back was against his chest.

  They lay like that for a long while. He let his fingers trail over her breasts and nipples, rubbing them between his fingertips until they grew hard.

  He reached down and stroked her clit gently and she moaned. He spread her wetness around her and lifted her leg up and back so it lay over his.

  He was hard again and he pressed his dick against her, rubbing the tip around to get it wet, then slipped it inside her.

  She gasped in the sudden pleasure, then let out a moan. She pushed her hips back into him, moving him deeper inside her.

  He rubbed circles around her clit as he moved in and out of her, slowly this time.

  They moved together, gently forward and back, letting the feeling of touching each other take over them. The sensation built slowly until she reached back and gripped his hips, pulling him forward and she cried out in orgasm. He finished a few moments later.

  He wrapper her in his arms again and held her close.

  “I think I could do that for the rest of my life,” he said.

  She turned to face him, her legs tangled in his. “I wanted to tell you something tonight. I’ve been waiting for just the right moment.”

  “What is it?”

  She touched her forehead to his and said, “I love you.”

  He closed his eyes and his mouth spread slowly into a wide smile. “Really?”

  She nodded.

  “Tell me again.”

  “I love you,” she said.

  “It’s been so long since I heard that. It feels so good.” He kissed her, then looked into her eyes. “I’m in love with you.”

  She let her fingers slip into his hair. “It’s been a long time since I heard that, too.”

  “Don’t think this is weird of me, but I love Logan, too.”

  “Really?”

  Tears came to her eyes at this. It was one thing for him to say he loved her, but to love her son as well?

  “Thank you for convincing me to give him a chance. You’re right. Hanging around kids isn’t nearly as scary as I thought it’d be.”

  “Neither is hanging out with a bear.”

  He chuckled. “Thank you for taking a chance on me.”

  “Same.”

  He closed his eyes and she closed hers and they drifted off to sleep, tangled in each other’s hearts.

  Hart

  Bear Dating Agency IV

  by

  Becca Fanning

  “Oh my God, Elise, he’s perfect.”

  Jane Walsh leaned carefully on the edge of the hewn wooden crib, peering in with a lump in her throat. The baby boy was tiny, a perfect replica of humanity in every way. Tiny hands with tiny fingers, tiny lips that blew bubbles as he breathed. He even had tiny dark, hairs starting to sprout from his scalp. He was two weeks old, peaceful and perfect. And, when he opened his eyes to look at Jane, they shone with a ring of glittering gold.

  “Say hello to Isaak Best,” Elise told her brightly.

  Elise had been working less and less in the run-up to giving birth, and Jane hadn’t seen her for more than a month by the time she came to visit Fairhaven Park. Now, Jane could see that it was all so worth it, the slowing down, the taking time to create and care for something so beautiful. It stirred her heart into a warm, deep sensation, and she found herself watching little Isaak with a wistful smile on her face.

  “You want one, don’t you?” Elise asked her.

  Jane turned, eyeing up her favorite client carefully. Elise was glowing with all the charms of new motherhood, despite the tired shadows lurking beneath her eyes. Jane was more than just Elise’s agent, she had grown to be a dear friend to the slightly younger woman. She weighed up her options for answering the big question, and nodded slowly.

  “Sure I do,” Jane replied, “but that involves meeting a man, making commitmen
ts. It just takes so much time, Elise. It’s time I don’t have right now.”

  Even as she spoke, Jane couldn’t help but glance at her cell phone, which she’d kept one hand on in her pocket the whole time since she’d left LA. It was on silent for baby Isaak’s benefit, but the emails and instant messages were already piling up. Every five minutes, someone somewhere had a crisis for her to solve. She felt the wistful feeling leave her, a wave of stress returning to turn her body tense.

  “But when will you ever have time, if you don’t stop and look once in a while?” Elise challenged. “Why don’t you call Karina Vasquez? Her agency sent me up here in the first place, remember?”

  Jane shook her head at once.

  “Not everyone can be as lucky as you and Dietrich,” she insisted. She glanced at her phone again. “I really ought to check this. Do you mind?”

  Elise gave a sigh, which seemed to signal that she did mind, but Jane started to move away from the crib all the same. Her steps were heavy as she walked away, and at the door she looked back on the scene of a happy mother, and a woman in love.

  “I…” Jane began sadly, but she couldn’t let go of what she really wanted to say. “I’m just here for the week, working out-of-office, to see you and get to know Isaak. Love just isn’t on my schedule right now. It’s not like I can just expect a man to fall out of the sky and-”

  The door hit Jane square in the chest, and she stumbled backwards. Baby Isaak began to bawl at once, filling the room with the shrill cry of shock. Jane shrieked too, for as the door swung open, a tall, muscular man crash-landed at her feet. He had rolled his head into his arms to prevent any damage, and beyond him the hatch to the Rangers’ Lodge attic was wide open. His collapsed ladder had sent him flying towards the bedroom, and he looked up into Jane’s eyes with a sudden awareness.

  His eyes were golden, shimmering like all those of the Best shifter clan, and when he grinned shyly, his teeth were gleaming. He flicked a strand of dark blonde hair from his face, and gave a small, apologetic shrug.

  “That’s what you get for daydreaming on a ladder, I guess,” he mused.

  “Jane,” Elise said, a wry smile playing at her lips, “this is Hart, Dietrich’s cousin. I don’t think you’ve met.”

  She could have stayed and talked to Hart, but the messages were plaguing the back of Jane’s mind. He was handsome, like all the Best boys were, but also boyish in his clumsiness despite being one of the eldest. Hartwin Best. Jane loved the German name. It was a wrench to excuse herself and head downstairs, seeking out a decent cell signal, but it had to be done. People in the city were depending on her, and she wasn’t the type to let them down.

  She walked several yards from the huge, ornate frontage of the Rangers’ Lodge, down towards the edge of the woods. It was mid-morning, which meant that the world of offices and phone banks Jane had left behind was just starting to get into full swing. She flicked through the emails on her phone, browsing for the ones which needed urgent replies. Then she stood with the cell glued to her ear, listening to voicemail after voicemail about this, that and the other. Which models were going to get the new Chanel campaign, what shoes should be bought in for the latest ingénue to wear. It was dry stuff, but it really mattered. It could be the difference between whether Jane still had a job this time next year or not.

  She made a few calls, wandering absently as she did so, until she realized that her voice was crackling on the line. Hanging up, she rattled her phone for a signal, only to discover that she had actually walked some way into the woods during her calls. Jane looked around, mildly alarmed by the sight of trees on all sides. There was a bright stream of daylight above her, and the greenery was thick and beautiful, but just a little too thick to see which way was the right one back to the lodge. Jane fired up her phone again, swiping to find Elise’s shining face.

  “I thought you were swamped with calls,” Elise said at once, the playful annoyance still palpable in her tone.

  “Yeah, well… Don’t laugh, but-” Jane began, and at once Elise chuckled. “I said don’t laugh. I wandered out into the trees, maybe only half an hour’s walk, but I’m not sure of the way back.”

  “Did you hear that Isaak?” Elise teased, her voice gentle. “Auntie Jane is lost in the woods already.”

  “Hey, little help here?” Jane pleaded.

  “Sure, I’ll send someone,” Elise said with another laugh.

  Jane thanked her ruefully, then looked around again with a little sigh. It was no use continuing to walk, in case she was walking herself even further away from the lodge, so she found a mossy rock and settled upon it. The signal was just about good enough to still get her instant messages, and soon she was deep into a chat with one of her many assistants about who they’d be sending to New York Fashion Week. It was during this heated debate that Jane thought she heard a few branches breaking somewhere nearby, as if under gentle footsteps. She looked up, hoping for the sight of Dietrich or one of his fellow rangers.

  Instead, she found that she was looking at a shabbily-dressed woman with long, dirty hair. The two women stared at one another for a moment, then the stranger put a lazy smile back on her face. She had a glazed sort of look in her eyes, as though half her mind was somewhere else entirely. The woman certainly wasn’t a hiker, and Jane tried to sound bright and helpful as she returned the woman’s smile.

  “If you’re looking to get out of the woods, I’m waiting for rescue right now,” Jane offered.

  “Get out?” the woman asked. Her voice had the same faraway quality as her glassy eyes. “No way, lady. I’m so good where I am. Like, so good.”

  The shabby woman spun on the spot like a child. She looked up into the foliage overhead, and Jane had a moment of panic as she watched the unsteady creature wobble and almost fall flat on her face. There was something wrong with her, and Jane wondered if she could guess what it was. The drug-users she met in LA were more the uppers and downers type, looking for energy all day and oblivion all night. This woman, Jane decided, had sought out a permanent chillax. The woman stumbled closer and, sure enough, a recognizable smell entered Jane’s nose.

  “Well, you’re enjoying your vacation, aren’t you?” Jane said, now vaguely amused.

  The stranger nodded gleefully, her matted hair flopping with a dull thud. She sat down on the floor in front of Jane, knees crossed like a schoolgirl.

  “You could use some, you know,” the woman mused, “you look all weird and tense.”

  Jane couldn’t pretend that the observation didn’t hurt her. She frowned, then frowned some more as the woman started rifling in the pockets of her shabby coat.

  “Oh no, really,” Jane stammered politely. “I don’t… I mean, I couldn’t take your stash.”

  “It’s no problem,” the merry woman said, still searching her clothes. “I got it gratis. Free sample from the Boys in the Wood.”

  Jane started at that.

  “In the wood?” she repeated. “Are you saying someone dealt drugs to you here, in the park?”

  The woman looked up with a wide smile.

  “Oh yeah,” she said proudly. “Grown here too. It’s good shit.”

  “Grown here?” Jane echoed.

  This was serious. If there was a drugs operation somewhere in the woods, the Best clan needed to know about it. Jane sucked up a breath, choking a little on the foul residue of pot smoke from the stranger, then she set her voice low and serious. It was the kind of tone she used with new interns back at the agency.