Temptation: Reckless Desires (Blue Moon Saloon Book 2) Read Online Free PDF Page B

dreamed about — up close and personal with Cole Harper — instead of just another lonely night alone.
    “Morning,” Soren grumbled from the tiny office off the back room of the saloon.
    Bears were about as enthusiastic about mornings as she was. The only one of the shifters living above the Blue Moon Saloon who didn’t mind waking before ten was her sister, Jessica. The proof was in the smell of fresh muffins wafting over from the little café next door.
    “Muffin?” she asked, starting toward the back door.
    Soren nodded. “Coffee?”
    It had become an amiable ritual between them: he’d get the coffee, she’d get the muffins, and they’d both get on with whatever business there was to be done that day before opening the saloon.
    She walked outside and looped from the rear door of the saloon to the back door of the café.
    “Morning!” Jessica practically sang when Janna came in.
    “Morning,” she mumbled back, suppressing a sigh. Her sister had always been a morning person, but the joyous glow she’d taken on recently made it that much harder to bear.
    Jessica held up a rack of steaming muffins. “Blackberry-currant. You think Simon will like them?”
    Simon’s deep voice rumbled from the open door. “I like everything you make.” He stood in the doorway, rubbing a shoulder against the frame, marking his turf.
    Jessica turned an even happier shade of pink and rushed into his hug.
    Janna looked at the floor. Sighed. Grabbed three muffins — one for her, two for Soren — and headed past the happy lovers. She was glad for her sister and Simon, but there was only so much cooing and hand-feeding of muffins an innocent bystander could take.
    “Muffin,” she sighed, plonking the plate in front of Soren.
    “Coffee,” he yawned, handing her a mug.
    They stood there sipping for a second, listening to the giggling next door, staring off into space. Janna had never been big on the concept of destined mates, figuring she could damn well choose her own partner if she ever decided she wanted one. But seeing Simon and Jess made her think twice. And ever since she’d met Cole…
    Mate.
Her wolf nodded happily.
Mine.
    Soren took a bear-sized bite of muffin then sighed at the papers littering his desk. The guy loved woodwork, spare ribs, and rooting around in the outdoors. A bear doing office work, well, it just wasn’t natural.
    Janna took hold of the back of his chair and spun him around. “How about you go for a morning walk. I’ll take care of the bills.”
    His listless eyes lit up a little and turned toward the hills. A hint of oaky bear scent wafted off him, just from the thought of shifting.
    “Um… well…”
    “Just go.” She jerked her thumb at the door. “I got this.”
    “Maybe just a short walk…”
    She pushed him toward the door. Well, she shoved at his broad back, because bears didn’t budge unless they damn well wanted to. Obviously, his bear was all for it, because he was out the door, in his pickup, and off on the ten-minute drive to the national forest before she could say boo.
    “Boo,” she whispered, looking at the sea of paperwork. She took one more sip of coffee and dug into the bills piled up on the desk.
    Power, water, deliveries. She slit open envelopes, wrote checks, and made notes in the old-fashioned ledger that was Soren’s attempt at office organization.
    Rent. She signed that check with a happy face in the memo line, because Tina Hawthorne-Rivera would be the one cashing it. If it weren’t for Tina, Simon and Soren might not have managed to rent the saloon from the wolves of Twin Moon Ranch. If it weren’t for Tina, Janna might still be on the run with Jessica, working temporary jobs with one eye over her shoulder and one eye on the road. If it weren’t for Tina, a lot of good things might never have come to pass.
    Like her job here at the saloon. Her cozy room upstairs. Like meeting Cole.
    It wasn’t Tina,
a little voice in the back of her mind said.
It was