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want to live in peace and be happy.”
    His words ran true in her ears, and she
realized the bears weren’t that much different from her people.
    “Isn’t that what everybody wants? To live
free and be happy. It’s a worthy goal.” Her tone was contemplative
as she looked out over the water.
    He’d given her a lot to think about, and she
definitely needed to go back to her people and tell them all the
news. Things were changing rapidly, and there were decisions to be
made.
    “Well. I guess this is my stop.” She untied
the robe again and let it fall to the deck at her feet before
diving swiftly off the boat.
    “Wait!”
    She heard him call out even as she hit the
water. If she’d given him time to talk her into staying, she never
would have left. Better to do it fast. Make a clean break. The
bear-man was just too enticing.
    She felt her change come over her, legs
fusing into a tail, scales rippling over her skin. She worked her
way to the surface again, just to get one last look at him, unable
to help herself.
    He was leaning over the rail, a look of
dismay on his handsome face. His expression changed to relief when
he caught sight of her again, which warmed her heart.
    “Will I see you again?” he asked, warming her
further.
    She smiled, knowing he’d see the sharper
teeth, the alien side of her being that she seldom put on display
to outsiders. Sure, he was a shifter too. He had a beast half. But
his beast was something humans were used to seeing. In her case,
she was something mythological—and the mer had worked hard over the
eons to keep it that way.
    “I believe our paths will cross again,
Andrew,” she told him, her words only slightly affected by the
changes in her mouth brought on by the shift.
    “How will I find you?” he wanted to know.
    She couldn’t tell him. It was one of the most
important rules of being mer. Mystery was their friend. It kept
them safe. She could never reveal the secrets about where the mer
lived or how to find them. Not to anyone.
    “I’ll find you, my new friend. Your boat
isn’t hard to spot.”
    As she swam away beneath the waves, she
couldn’t get him out of her mind. They would meet again, but she
had a lot of things to do first. Briefing the others was the first
task. Then, she’d have to do a little reconnaissance of her own. If
all went well, she’d be seeking out the handsome bear shifter
sooner than he might think.
    Even her cold fish side warmed to the idea of
getting close to him again. He kissed like a dream, and she had
been unable to find any fault with his words or manner. If
everything he’d told her checked out the way she thought it would,
she would feel free to let loose a little more with him. It had
been far too long since she’d been with a man, and she’d never been
with a shifter.
    She wondered what it would be like to be with
someone from whom she didn’t have to constantly hide her dual
nature. Would it be as freeing an experience as she thought? Or
would such a relationship carry its own unique problems?
    There really was only one way to find out.
The next time she saw him, she was going to do all she could to
seduce the man and see where it led. If she’d been a land dweller,
she would have growled at the thought of getting him naked and
seeing if his performance lived up to the potential advertised by
his good looks.
    If she’d been a shier creature, she would
have blushed at her own thoughts, but Jetty was known for being one
of the bolder of her people. She’d put that bold nature to good use
the very next time she saw her bear, and she vowed, he wouldn’t
know what hit him.
     

Chapter Three

    Jetty swam into the cove, enjoying the
splendor of the place. It really was a nice little inlet, protected
from the ferocity of the ocean. The waters were calm, and even
though the sky was overcast, as it often was in this part of the
world, enough light filtered through to make the vista below the
surface a lovely blue-green teeming with