A Bride For The Bear (Bear Brides #1) Read Online Free PDF

a treat, a very delectable, human
treat.”
    She saw Graig's hand move to
his belt. As he advanced towards her with a malicious glint in his
eye, he began unbuckling his belt with one hand. When he yanked down
his zipper, Abby whirled round but the two men behind her caught her
and held her fast.
    She screamed, loud and long
and pleading.
    She
hoped someone would hear her, and she hoped that someone wouldn't
just turn away and run off like everyone else. She
knew what fear did to people. In
the dark alleys of the city, sometimes there were muffled screams and
the flash of a blade, but only very few brave souls dared stop to
help. Most people simply hurried on, afraid to look, afraid to be
seen. Evil was all around, and bad people got away scot-free because
of the fear they instilled in other ordinary folk. Those ordinary
folk weren't bad people. They were just afraid, and they weren't
wrong to be afraid. They had families, burdens, worries. Fear was a
powerful weapon.
    So was rage.
    Abby
screamed with all her might, twisting,
spitting, kicking at her attackers. She hadn't come all this way to
be waylaid, pounced on and made a victim of. Human! Damn right she
was human. She was human, but she wasn't weak. These bears picked
on her simply because she was human and female. She
had just been minding her own business, exploring the town on her
own. She had lost her job, but she hadn't lost her fight. They had
no right to do this to her, to make her shitty life even shittier
than it already was!
    Abby heard a tearing sound
and shrieked as a cold claw raked down between her breasts, snapping
her bra. The two halves of her t-shirt flapped open, exposing her
pale, shaking torso.
    “Don't touch me! Let
me go, leave me alone!” she screamed. “Get away from me.
Help! Please, someone, help me!”
    “No one's coming to
help you,” Graig snarled, gripping her face. “So just be
a good girl and shut the fuck up. I don't want to have to mess up
your pretty little face.”
    A sob gurgled in her throat.
This was not happening. It couldn't be. There had to be some way,
someone...
    “Please...” She
could barely hear her own whisper.
    She had come to Moonstone
Creek searching for someone. Someone named Cole.
    Was he even here?
    Was he real?
    She had been convinced that
he was real, and that he was...special.
    She closed her eyes to block
out the horror of what was to come. “Cole...” she
whispered, clinging desperately to a dying, fading hope as the
growling werebears closed in on her.
    “Cole...I wish...”
    She didn't complete her wish.
    Only a strangled sob escaped
as Graig's fist closed around her throat.

     

CHAPTER
FIVE

    Cole parked his pick-up truck
in front of a hardware store and stepped onto the curb. He was here
to grab some tools to build a timber deck for one of their clients.
    His entire body stiffened at
that sharp scent in the air. Another whiff and his bear roared to
the surface.
    There was the stinging smell
of fear, tears and blood.
    Cole turned towards the
scent, charging across a busy junction and ignoring the blaring of
horns and curses from angry drivers. He headed straight for a
narrow, side street, towards the sound of small, stifled sobs and
whimpers.
    The instant he turned into
the quiet street, his bear tore out of his skin and charged. His
bear had scented blood. Her blood.
    The small street was
deserted. Everyone had hurried indoors and ducked into the side
lanes to avoid the Blood Shadow bears. The Alpha of the Blood Shadow
clan was a wealthy, influential werebear, but Haluddin left the
running of the clan largely to his Beta. Haluddin was getting older,
and some say, weaker, but Cole still held the Blood Shadow Alpha in
esteem, even though he had no respect at all for Haluddin's Beta.
Haluddin's family had once owned most of the land in Moonstone Creek,
but as other packs and clans settled in the small town and challenged
Haluddin for territory, Haluddin had allowed the other packs and
clans to