Hard As Steele (A BBW Paranormal Romance) (Timber Valley Pack) Read Online Free PDF

night.” She let out a giggle. “My subconscious is really playing some amazing tricks on me.”
                  “You saw me turn into a wolf?” he pretended polite disbelief as she wrapped the blanket around her luscious body.
                  Damn it to hell. He’d been so sure she was asleep when he’d crept outside. He’d had no choice; the fur was rippling under his skin, snout thrusting forward, fangs itching under his gums.  His wolf had hurled itself against the walls of his humanity, howling to be free.  It was shift in the cabin, or shift out in the woods. No other option.
                  He walked in to the kitchen and put on some water to boil for coffee. There was also a box of instant pancake mix, so he pulled out some bowls to make breakfast for her.
                  “Yes, it’s funny. I had never actually known that I fantasized about werewolves, but apparently I do.”
                  “Interesting.” He kept his tone calm and neutral. “Did I turn into any other animals?”
                  “Nope. Just a wolf.” She let out a sigh as she rustled through the cabinets and pulled out a can of powdered coffee. 
                  “I’ll get the stove going so we can make breakfast,” he said, jarred out of his reverie.
    “I know all this sounds crazy. I’m just trying to figure out where I am exactly. Am I still back in the car, dying? If so, it’s sure taking a long time. Am I in limbo? Is this actually heaven?”
                  “Good question. What about the possibility that you have a head injury and you just imagined that part, and everything else is real?” He watched her carefully. She just shrugged and shook her head as she walked to the kitchen, with the blanket draped over her body.
                  No dice.
                  She smiled wistfully at him. “I know it’s weird to talk about this with one of the inhabitants of my dream universe, but it’s just that…I don’t know. I feel as if I can tell you anything.”
                  He felt overflowing warmth and affection when she said that, mingled with deep sorrow. He wished he could be the same with her, and pour out all his hopes and dreams and feelings, but he never could.
    “Of course you can.”
                  “Well, right now I’m thinking that since I’m dead or dying, I am happy that I’ll get to see my parents again – uh, of course I would want to get dressed first – but I wish I’d had more time here on Earth. I never got to have children.” She looked sad. “I’ll miss my friend Katherine, and my other friends in Lonesome Pine. I mean, I know I wasn’t the belle of the ball or anything, but I did have friends.”
                  Steele felt regret burning through him.  There was no point in correcting her; she might as well think she was hallucinating. If she realized that she was trapped in a cabin with a wolf shifter, she might very well panic, and he didn’t want that.
                  Someday, she probably would have children…with someone else. The thought stabbed through him, and made him feel ill. Fur rippled on the backs of his hands at the thought of another man being with his woman, and he stifled a growl.
                  No. Not his woman. She could never be his woman.
                  He forced the fur back down, stifling his wolf.  He glanced out the window.
                  “The snow has stopped,” he said. “I’m going to call my friends and check in with them.”
                  “Sure thing,” she said.
                  He called up the headquarters of the nearest pack, the Silver Forest shifters, and told them his location. He knew where all the packs lived; this pack was only about half an hour from the cabin.
                  “I’ve