Some Bear to Love: BBW Bear Shifter (BWWM) Romance Standalone
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I shrugged. “A romance novel, so what?”
“Ah. There are good looking men in that book, right?”
“Sure,” I replied, not getting where he was going with this.
“So, what if I told you that there were men much hotter than the man in that book, men who look like me, but younger, more virile. What if I told you that if you came with me right now, you have men like that fighting over you, and you’d have your pick of them?”
I pulled my open jaw up before I could make a fool of myself by drooling on the ground. “I’d say you were crazy.”
“I’m not crazy. My kind, we are naturally good looking.” He pulled out his wallet again. “Here, a picture of my family.” He handed it over and I looked over it, eyes catching especially on three stunning men in the back row, each a beautiful specimen of the finest the male sex has to offer.
I tried to act cool. “So what? You have good-looking kids. Not a surprise. Besides, this ‘looks’ thing, it seems to have skipped over me, so I doubt anyone would be fighting over me. I’m not the type of female men would fight over. Look at me.”
“I am,” he said. “And I assure you, in our world, men would fight. Will fight. So will you come?”
I looked back down at the photo. “So, guys like this?” I pointed at the men in the back row, liking especially a guy with dark hair and blue eyes.
“Well yes. Two of my sons are mated, but the one on the end, Lindon, he’s free.”
“Which one?”
“The blond.”
I found him and my jaw dropped again involuntarily. He was the spitting image of Sylvester, the naughty duke in my book. But more beautiful. Perfect, angelic features, but a hungry look in those light golden eyes. “So, he’d fight for me?”
He took the photo back and looked at it thoughtfully. “Well, Lindon is kind of a special case. I can’t say what he’d do. But he’s available to participate in the challenge if he wants to.”
“What about you?” I couldn’t resist asking, even knowing the age difference was inappropriate.
He gave me a smile that was slightly sad. “I’m afraid I’ve had my one great love. It’s time for the other males to have a chance.” He put the picture away. “Listen, Misty, I can’t tell you everything until you agree to come with me and keep our secrets. But I can tell you we need you. And you’ll be happier than you ever thought you could be.” He gestured back at the shop. “This isn’t your world. You know that, right?”
I thought about it. I guess I never felt like I fully fit in, but lots of people felt that way, didn’t they? I was sure every girl wished she could be whisked off away from this world to be some sort of princess or something. But that just didn’t happen in real life.
“Look, I still think you’ve made some kind of mistake…but if…say I was to go with you, if I change my mind, can I come back?”
“I can’t promise that,” he said. “But after I tell you about who you are, I’m willing to bet you won’t want to.”
I thought about the blond man, Lindon. His beautiful face was stuck in my mind. Whatever that world was, there was someone there who intrigued me more than anyone I had ever met in this world. If I walked away now, I wouldn’t ever know what I could have seen.
And there was something about this man and his arrogance, and his family, that made me think I could trust him. That gave me confidence in him, despite wanting to simultaneously slap him and chew him out for coming into my life and turning everything upside down.
“Alright, take me to meet Lindon.”
He raised an eyebrow. “That’s your condition? To meet my son?”
“Why? Something wrong with him?”
He put his hand up to his chin and thought for a moment. “I guess I’ll let you decide that for yourself.” A grin spread over that handsome face, and I could see some resemblance to the beautiful blond in the photo. “Alright, I’ll take you to meet Lindon. Might be good to have some motivation while you have to take it all in anyway.”
“Sure,” I said.
“Alright, how soon can you be packed? And you’ll need to take work off.”
“For how long?”
He shrugged. “Indefinitely, I guess.”
I couldn’t believe I was even considering it. But I knew if I said no, I’d go back to a life of lonely bookshelf stocking and reading at night about things I’d never get a chance to experience. This man offered me adventure, and something deep inside me was saying yes.
The blond man popped into my mind, and I swear I could see him smile.
“Alright, I’ll go with you, Mister…?”
“Rowan,” he said, pulling my hand to his lips to place a gentle kiss there. “I’m Rowan, and I promise you won’t regret it for a second.”
Well, he was dead wrong.
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