Some Bear to Love: BBW Bear Shifter (BWWM) Romance Standalone Read Online Free PDF Page B

rubbed his nose and glared at her playfully. “Why did you pop me one, though? Can’t say that was enjoyable.”
    She tried not to laugh, because it wasn’t funny, but looking back on it, the situation kind of was. “Sorry, I thought you were Wilson.”
    His expression darkened as he looked her over. “What?”
    Oh shit. Then she’d have to explain why she accidentally kicked Wilson, and she didn’t even know how much Wilson had actually pulled. And he looked angry with her.
    She should have just claimed she accidentally kicked too hard. She bit her lip.

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    H e didn’t like the dark feelings stirring within him. Anger, possession, jealousy.
    And the fear he’d experienced when he’d seen her swimming past her snorkeling partner, getting too far from her boat and out toward dangerous ocean currents.
    It was similar to how he’d felt when she’d flown off the back of the boat. Like his heart had stopped and only had permission to start again when she’d been okay.
    He’d never felt this way before. He’d always been a protective sort of person. Always wanted to shelter his family and the people under his care on the ship.
    But this was different. A soul-deep need that seemed to burn within him.
    And he didn’t know what to do about it.
    And now he was feeling it again, as she said she’d kicked him, thinking he was Wilson. So what had Wilson done? He had his own suspicions about the guy. He wasn’t sure exactly what kind of shifter he was, but he was something. And he’d been one of the last people to book the boat, after the couple.
    So had he done it because Kim had booked it and he could sense Kim was an alpha female, a rarity in the shifter world? It was something to watch out for.
    He tried to convince himself it was because she was just a passenger, but he couldn’t help feeling there was something else to it.
    Her warm gray eyes sparkled in the afternoon sun. Her dark hair was dotted with glistening drops of water, and her curvaceous, tall body was graceful in the sea. She was some kind of sparkling water sprite, and he found himself wanting to watch out for her for the rest of his life.
    Which was stupid, because she was a lawyer. She was going back to New York, back to “civilized” life. She didn’t need him. She’d play and have fun like many of the tourists here and then go back to the “real world.”
    Leaving everything behind.
    Like his mom had left him and his brothers and his father. True, the location had been different, but the result was the same. Sebastien had seen the destruction it wreaked on his dad’s heart, and he wasn’t going to open himself to the same. Not to mention how damaging it had been for him and his brothers, suddenly rejected and on their own.
    Their dad had tried to explain they were part animal, some more than others, and animals didn’t usually stay together in the wild. Especially bears like them.
    So after their mom left, making excuses about it being too cold, their father had moved them to the tropics. Polar bears didn’t need to live in the Arctic. In fact, their bodies had to go through intense changes to do so, storing tons of fat to stay warm.
    Here in the tropics, as long as there was water, they were fine.
    But he couldn’t help thinking part of the reason his father had come here was in the hope that his mother would show up one day.
    But she hadn’t.
    He heard Kim clear her throat and made an effort to pull out of his thoughts and be less rude. What had they been talking about? He looked to her for a clue, and she gave him an innocent look as jealousy coiled through him again.
    Wilson.
    “What did he do?” he growled, a little more harshly than he meant.
    She bit her lip and looked to the side. Her lashes sparkled with water. So long. “Nothing.”
    He exhaled tensely. “Sure. No, what did he do? I’m captain. You have to tell me.”
    Her eyes twinkled, and she slid back into the water and swam a bit away from the platform. “Maybe I’ll