Black Bear Fall: A BWWM Paranormal Romance (Black Bear Saga Book 2) Read Online Free PDF

earth ready to drown her. “What do you want from me?” Grace asked trying to stem the flow of tears.
    “To be friends. To expose you to the lies and hypocrisy of the black bears. What is it they say? The truth will set you free. I think after you spend a little time with me you will see those wretched animals in a whole new light. Your cardboard cutout hero Tom has his own share of dark secrets he wouldn't want his new bit of skirt to see. Don't you worry Grace we will have the time to walk down the halls and see the sights together,” he said and walked away from Grace and towards Anne. His back was to Grace and she tried to move her hands in her restraints. She could feel the soft skin in her inner wrists shred off as she tried to free her hand. The leather was stiff and immobile as she twisted and pulled against it, nothing was happening and then she felt a tiny movement. A small amount of give. It was a start.
    Tulimak bent down to Anne and sniffed deeply along the length of her body. His shoulders were hunched as he smelled her and Grace thought that from behind he looked like a monster crouched over a damsel in distress. If only this was a fairytale Grace thought as she kept moving her wrist, the leather loosening in minute increments as she moved her arm. Tulimak turned back to Grace and for a second she thought that he knew straight away that her binds where loosening. She was sure he was going to walk right over and pull on them until they bit painfully into her skin again. He leaned against the metal table looking at Grace, the same easy going grin plastered on his face.
    “Do you know anything about bile collecting?” he asked. Tulimak didn’t give Grace a chance to speak and continued. “You humans are a barbaric lot. You know this of course. I don’t think the planet had ever had a species that figures out the most cruel and unusual punishments for animals they deem below them. Well back in the mists of time some clever human came up with the idea that a certain digestive liquid made in a bears internal organs could cure all sorts of ailment. You can guess how this went for the poor bears. Forced into tiny cages, incisions made in their abdomens and a tube connected to the bile duct. This precious green fluid that some clever little hairy ape deemed as important was then drained right from the source until the bear keeled over. It’s a practise still done to this day. The stuff is worth its weight in gold. Put a few drops in a cup of tea and your aches and joint pains will disappear like magic. Miraculous stuff. You want to know what it really does?”
    Grace nodded, as she watched him walk around the table. You keep on talking she thought as she moved her wrist every time he had his back to her. The leather was loosening in painfully small increments, but it was a start and it gave Grace hope to cling on to.
    Tulimak stood at the end of the table and looked down at Anne who was still unconscious. “The funny thing about the bile that they extract in the most painful and ruinous way possible is it does absolutely nothing. It has zero medical benefits. They might as well boil tufts of the bears hair in water and drink that mixture. Humans love the complicated ritual surrounding something like bile extraction. There is no romance to snipping off some hair and using that in a tincture. No bile duct extraction, that has all the ingredients of the human spirit. You get to dominate a creature that you see as inferior, the human gets to cage it and extract the very essence from its body, and finally you get to watch it die at your hands. Rinse and repeat. Human innovation at its finest.” Tulimak turned as the plastic fronded doorway was pushed open and two more men walked in. The first was Slattery and he was followed by a tanned man in his fifties. “Perfect timing gentleman,” Tulimak said turning to great them. “This here is Doctor Clancy and he will be performing todays procedure.”
    Slattery stood