Bane: Trillionaire Shifter Club Book One Read Online Free PDF

on,
Chilly, let’s see you break it out.”
    Chill opened
his hand, looking at Bane. “She wants to see the bear.”
    Cordelia
burst out laughing. “Yeah, let’s see Bane’s bear too.”
    Harper
knocked Cordelia’s knee. “Shut up…”
    Cordelia
glared at her. “You shut up.”
    “You know,
we’re not circus performers,” Chill said grinning. “You’re being very rude Miss
Cordelia.”
    “Oh really,
I’m being rude?”
    “Very, very
rude.”
    Chill stood
up from the table, while Bane looked over his shoulder.
    “What are you
doing?” Bane asked.
    “I don’t
know,” Chill replied. “Maybe I’m obliging the lady’s request.”
    Cordelia
burst out with hysterical laughter.
    “Don’t
Chill,” Bane warned. “You’ll frighten them.”
    Chill raised
his hands in the air and aimed them towards Cordelia. “Am I scaring you? Am I
frightening you?”
    “No,” she
giggled.
    “What about
now?”
    Instantaneously
Chill’s whole form shifted into that of a towering polar bear. His arms were
still pointed towards Cordelia as though he was about to lunge at her.
    She screamed
and fell out of her chair.

 
    CHAPTER
SIXTEEN
     
     
    A moment later, the polar bear was
gone, and Chill was helping Cordelia to her feet. Harper looked over and
realized she was holding Bane’s hand.
    She quickly
retracted it.
    “What the
fuck?” Cordelia wheezed in Chill’s arms. “What the fuck was that?”
    She looked
across at Harper. “They’re trying to drug us!”
    “You’re just
drunk, darling,” Chill said.
    “I am not,”
Cordelia protested. “I’m fine! I’m ready to party!”
    At that point
she collapsed.
    His arms
sagged a little, but Cordelia’s hair never touched the ground. Chill scooped
her feet up.
    Both Harper
and Bane stood.
    “I think she
needs to lie down for a moment,” Chill said. “I’ll take her to one of the beds
upstairs.”
    Harper
glanced over at Bane, alarmed. “Wait a second. Will she be alright with him?”
    “Don’t
worry,” Bane said quietly as Chill took Cordelia away. “He’s all bark, no bite.
He won’t hurt her.”
    “What if he touches her?”
    “He won’t,”
Bane said somberly. “That’s not Chill’s way.”
    “Are you
sure?”
    “He’s my best
friend. Of course I’m sure.”
    “Oh. Okay.”
    Chill pushed
open the doors leading out to the staircase landing, and walked through them
carrying Cordelia. Harper wondered if she should follow him.
    “So,” Bane
said, his voice right by her ear. “So why have you come here?”
    Harper turned
around, forcing a smile. “It’s messed up. I’m really sorry. We were just
talking and she phoned the number, joking around.”
    “I knew it
was too soon for you to have second thoughts about your relationship,” Bane
said.
    “Well,”
Harper gushed. “I mean, we’re just – we just met. We don’t know where this
would go, whether I was engaged or not, doesn’t make a difference.”
    “It doesn’t?”
    “Well, I
mean,” Harper began, “I don’t want to leave the impression –”
    “Don’t
worry,” Bane assured her. “You haven’t.”
    “Oh.”
    He walked
past her and stood by the window. “It’s just another night,” he said. “Another
wave of meaningless coincidences. You are but a shadow to me. An outline of
what I desire, but not the real thing. You’re a reminder. A reminder of what I
truly want. But you aren’t real. Not in this moment. Not to me.”
    Harper took a
step towards him. “You’re making me feel really bad now. Have I let you down or
something?”
    “You don’t
exist,” Bane whispered.
    “What?”
Harper cried. “What does that mean? ‘I don’t exist’? I exist. I’m right here.”
    “But you
aren’t,” Bane said. “You’re in the arms of another man. Someone you love.
Someone you want to spend the rest of your life with.”
    “But…” Harper
began. “But … all I can think about is you.”
    She turned
away from him, stunned by her own words. She quivered,