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hell had Simon said this morning to the guests?
    Zoe gasped as the bear reared still taller and waved its paws in the air, snarling louder. She stumbled back, falling on her butt and nearly landing on the cubs. They squalled and ran for the trees, and the mama bear charged. Zoe screamed.
    A flash of brown streaked down the trail and nearly landed on her, then reared up and roared at the black bear. The mama bear grumbled and redirected, bounding to where her cubs waited, but watched them warily. Zoe blinked, feeling faint, and then nearly passed out completely as the giant brown thing turned and she looked at a freaking grizzly bear. A grizzly bear. Easily five times as large as the mama bear, its teeth twice as long, its paws as big as her chest. She scooted back into the meadow, praying as fast as she could. She never read anything about dealing with grizzly bears.
    She braced for the fatal swipe as the grizzly loomed over her, its eyes dark and angry, and she held her hands up to fend it off. "Please don't eat me."
    It sounded so stupid she wanted to take it back. Worst last words ever.
    But nothing happened. She looked up as the grizzly backed away, crouched down, and then disappeared. Disappeared.
    Zoe sat up, heart in her throat. The grizzly deflated and then Simon stood there, buck-naked. Simon. Looking furious. He stormed over to her, grabbing her upper arm hard enough Zoe cried out, and he shook her until her teeth rattled. "What the hell is wrong with you? What were you thinking?"
    She stammered, trying to come up with something, and searched for the grizzly. Couldn't be. Maybe they had a pet bear, trained to protect the guests. That would make sense. Simon wasn't a bear. Simon couldn't turn into a bear. That happened on the Internet with special effects magic, not in real life.
    Zoe tried to breathe as he hauled her up the trail toward the lodge. "Wh-what did — what's —"
    She couldn't get any other words out, between him yelling at her for putting herself in danger and her own labored breathing. Simon shook his head, the muscles jumping in his jaw as he dragged her up the porch stairs and into the great room, slamming the door behind him. He threw her into one of the chairs and loomed over her, posture so much like the grizzly her heart tripped. "What the fuck were you doing out there? You got between a mother bear and her cubs. Are you trying to get yourself killed?"
    Zoe stared up at him, mesmerized by the dark eyes flashing with gold and the muscles that rippled across his chest and abs and thighs... She flushed and dragged her eyes higher to stare him in the throat. "I don't know what —"
    "You could have died." He whirled and strode away, pacing in jerky movements that only made his muscles stand out. He had a perfectly tremendous ass. Zoe drew her legs up to her chest in the chair, huddling lower as he threw one of the kitchen stools across the room and it shattered into kindling against the massive stone fireplace. "That bear would have killed you for threatening her cubs. And then what would I do? What the hell would I do if you got yourself killed?"
    Zoe held up a hand to block out his sizable dick so she could actually look at him without blushing, and gulped for air. She'd seen a lot of weird shit online but never seen one that large in real life. She felt almost like it was looking at her. Or pointing at her. Wanting to introduce itself.
    Maybe she was in shock. That might explain the hysterical giggle that bubbled up in her chest. Zoe tried to regroup but her thoughts scattered like wild birds and she could only stutter, her voice wavering as the tears returned. "I didn't mean to —"
    He swore, turning away once more to run his hands through suddenly shaggy hair. When he faced her again, he tried to look and sound calm, though Zoe didn't buy it for a second. "Please explain to me what you were thinking."
    She moved her hands to continue blocking his junk. "I just — did you really turn into a