by Sable Sylvan
“Again, I’m Herbert Scoville, you must’ve heard of me,” said Herbert. “Your grandfather and mine, they had…unfinished business.
“Scoville?” said Alice, then, it hit her. Scoville. The rat bastards. “You mean your grandfather was Morten Scoville?”
“The very same,” said Herbert. “Your grandfather stole something from my grandfather, rather, one very important recipe. It’s the recipe for the sauce that your grandfather sold as his ‘Special Sauce.’ There are suspicions your grandfather stole four other recipes from my grandfather, but…”
“…But you have no evidence, just has you have no evidence other than hearsay,” said Alice. “Who do you think you are, coming here, on the day of the reading of my grandfather’s will? I don’t know how they do things wherever you’re from --”
“Norway, by way of Britain,” said Herbert with a smirk.
“Well, you’re in Texas now, and we don’t play that game here,” said Alice. “Now get out of here before I have to take you out of here by that pretty blonde hair of yours.”
“Any other day, an offer to be taken out by you would be an offer I’d take you up on, but I’m not leaving this state until I have my grandfather’s recipes in my hands,” said Herbert. “If it’s a war you want, well…I’ve got an army of lawyers waiting to take you down.”
“The men you’re with?” said Alice.
“No, and there are two things you’re wrong about,” said Herbert. “First off, we’re not men. We’re polars. Polar bears. Shifters. You know what that means? We’re hunters who can handle any situation and keep a cool head. They’re not my lawyers. They’re my brothers. Basil. Clove. Mason. Sage. And they’re not about to leave my side. You’d think we werewolf shifters by the way we hunt in a pack.”
Herbert leaned down to whisper that last sentence into Alice’s ears. Her cheeks blushed with arousal and frustration. Who the heck did he think he was to treat her like this, to whisper in her ears as if he were her lover, and to turn her on like no man ever had before? He was the man who in the last few minutes had established himself as her arch nemesis, but he was making her wetter than she’d ever been before. It had to be that dang shifter animal magnetism at work. It was no fair. How could she, a human compete?
The minute Herbert leaned down he knew he’d made a mistake. He wanted to whisper something else into Alice’s ears, about what he wanted to do with her, and how hard. He couldn’t help but take in her scent. Underneath the light scents of soap and floral shampoo was her natural musk, and it signaled her fertility as strongly as her ample curves and sass signaled that she was in need of a good pounding. His cock twitched. It only did that when he was on the prowl, either for business or a woman’s honeyed petals. In this case, it was for both reasons, and that drove Herbert wild. He could feel his polar wanting to burst from his skin, and he heard his inner bear tell him to take this woman back to his cave, or any cave at all, and breed her with his seed.
Herbert pulled away quickly. As he stood back up, something brushed against Alice’s stomach. She looked. Something was bulging from his pants.
Alice raised an eyebrow. Had Herbert really gotten a semi just from talking to her?
“I’ll be seeing you again shortly,” said Herbert, trying to get the boner to go away. What the heck was happening? He usually had fine control of his body, but around Alice, it was obvious that all bets were off. Yes, she was the most attractive woman that he’d seen since stepping foot in America, but…he knew that she was forbidden, for two reasons. First off, she was his grandpa’s arch rival’s heir. Secondly, well…he shook that thought out of his head. It was no use thinking about her while he was here, especially when he had no clue where she was…or who she was.
“I look forward to it,” said Alice sarcastically.
“Brothers, let’s go,” said Herbert. He turned and walked off with his entourage of tall hot Norwegian blondes.
Alice walked back to her sisters.
“Uh, what the heck was that?” asked Abigail, who had been comforting her sisters in Alice’s absence.
“Do you remember the stories Pop-Pop told, about the war?” said Alice. “About the Norwegian polar bear shifter that he was stuck with in a Nazi POW camp?”
“Yeah, Scarsdale or something,” said Cayenne.
“Scoville,” corrected Abigail. “Well, they had that rivalry, and apparently, Morten Scoville has been telling people that he owns the rights to the hot sauce recipes that Pop-Pop uses. One of the recipes is the recipe for the Special Sauce.”
“So who the heck were the blondes?” asked Savina.
“Pop-Pop wasn’t the only one with a gaggle of five grandkids,” said Herbert. “Apparently, Morten had five of his own, grandsons, all polar bears, who are here to get the recipes.”
“Are you kidding me?” asked Addison rhetorically. “I thought for sure that you and that tall one had chemistry. What the heck is gonna happen to next?”
“I’ll tell you what’s gonna happen,” said Alice. “I’m going to handle this. This Friday, we’ll all go out to the county fair and have a great time, and you’ll fly out to your colleges in a few weeks. Things are gonna be okay, I promise. Don’t worry. I’ll handle everything.”
Alice drove them all home, to the house that their parents had left them in Fallowedirt before they had moved to Florida to retire. As Alice drove, she couldn’t help but wonder how she’d solve the two new problems that had popped up in her life: the problem of the hot sauce recipes, and the problem of her attraction to the man that was there to steal them…and who might just steal her heart.
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