Doctor Bear: BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance (Bear Bluff Book 2) Read Online Free PDF Page A

out to be completely innocent. Yet she couldn’t just let it go. Because if she did, she would find herself falling for Ben—mind, body, heart, and soul.
    Although right now, it was her body that was most excited at that prospect. She shifted in her seat, the thought of his strong yet gentle, very capable hands on her body making her squirm with a need she had never felt before. Not even with Francis. No, the attraction to Ben was different, visceral, as though their bodies were drawn together by some invisible force.
    “Anyway, great to meet you, Beth.” Trent was leaving the table, not even having bought the drink he had offered.
    Beth found she didn’t really mind; she had no interest in him. Her body yearned for another, although her brain was fighting for control. So she simply said, “Bye, Trent. Good to meet you too. Thanks for the company.”
    “Bye, Trent,” Daphne said, watching him go. She had broken off the conversation with her friend, and now she turned and said quietly, “That is one man I would not kick out of bed on a cold winter’s morning. He is hot! ”
    “He is,” Beth had to agree, but he wasn’t the man for her. That man was looking at her again, sipping his beer and trying to concentrate on what Drew was saying. Beth got up, straightened her skirt down over her curvy thighs, and said, “I need the ladies’ room.”
    “Oh, do you want me to come with you?” Daphne asked, preparing to get up, although looking disappointed to be leaving the man who she had been having an intimate conversation with, whose name was Lionel.
    “No. You stay there. I’ll only be a minute. If you could just point me in the right direction.”
    “Over to the right. Through the door and to the end of the corridor. I’ll get some more drinks while you are away.”
    “Thanks, Daphne.”
    “No problem, honey. It was good to see you chatting with a man. There is hope for you yet.”
    “Still not interested,” Beth answered. Liar , said the voice in her head. There was one man she was most definitely interested in, but she couldn’t ever let herself admit it to him. She was warming to Bear Bluff with every hour that passed. The people here were friendly and welcoming, and she didn’t want to mess it up and have to move on. Not even for Dr. Ben.
    Feeling a little self-conscious, she walked across to the door Daphne had indicated. Pushing it open, she found herself in a well-lit corridor with three doors leading off it. One to the Ladies, one to the Gents, and one marked “Staff.” Allowing her eyes to adjust to the harsh lights, and wondering if she looked her usual blotchy self under their unearthly glow, she made her way to the ladies’ room.
    Checking her face in the mirror, she acknowledged that yes, she did look blotchy. After washing her hands, she tried to tone down her complexion with powder and reapplied her lipstick. She wasn’t sure why, but she felt the need to look her best when she walked back through the bar. Beth smiled at herself: always the deceiver, of course she knew why it mattered. Ben was out there.
    Grinning as she pictured his impossibly handsome face, she pulled open the door and walked straight into the real thing.
    “Hi,” he said, a little strained. If she didn’t know better, she would think he was nervous, but how could a man like Ben be nervous? He had the looks, the charm, and, she suspected, the wit to make women fall at his feet.
    “Hello,” Beth answered evenly.
    “You look happy. Good evening?” The strain in his voice grew.
    “Yes,” she answered, confused.
    “I just wanted to come and check you were OK.”
    “I am. I think I can manage a trip to the ladies’ room on my own.” If it was any other man who had followed her out, she might have felt creeped out, but with Ben, she knew he only had her best interests in mind.
    “Right, sorry. It’s just I saw you with Trent.”
    He left the sentence hanging, and she studied him closely before replying. If she