Bear Mated: A BBW Bear Shifter Paranomal Romance (Pine Ridge BBW Bear Shifter Paranormal Romance Series Book 2) Read Online Free

heard about it.”
    “Yeah, I remember Taggart
mentioning something his mate read in the paper. Something about a jewel
thief.”
    “That’s the one,” Barb said. “Well,
it’s the biggest thing to hit Pine Ridge, crime-wise, for a long time, and I’ve
been dreaming I’d get a crack at solving the case. Then came an alarm from a
private home, and I responded just in time to see him take off in his Honda.”
    “Did you get a look at him?”
    “Not really.” She paused. “Why?”
    “Nothing. He probably looks human,
anyway.”
    She rocked backward. “You mean he’s
not?”
    “He’s a shifter. I didn’t smell it
at first, but it’s stronger now. He’s definitely not human.”
    She processed this. “Okay, so what
is he?”
    “I don’t know. Nothing I’ve ever
smelled before.”
    Where
no man has smelled before. She smiled to herself, imagining the line spoken
by William Shatner . She was a big Star Trek nerd,
despite being all badass gung-ho cop. Heh , she thought. Gung-ho
meets man-ho. We should get tattoos.
    “What’s so funny?” Rick said,
sounding annoyed at not being in on the joke.
    She glanced up from the grass
(which she’d been idly watching, since that’s what he’d been smelling), then
realized her mistake. As soon as her eyes moved up, they traced his thick legs,
then drew, like lead filings to a magnet, to his enormous dong hanging between
his sexily muscular thighs. Her eyes latched onto it and wouldn’t move, despite
the fact that she exerted all her will to do so.
    “Hey, Officer Hotpants ,
I’m up here,” he said, but he was smiling—she could see it out of the corner of
her eyes. She couldn’t see it out of the front of her eyes because they were still on his giant cock. Part of her couldn’t
help but wonder if it would even fit inside her; it was that huge.
    At last, with an almost physical
effort, she swiveled her gaze up to meet his square-jawed, handsome face.
Liquid hazel eyes stared back at her.
    “You know,” he said thoughtfully.
“It’s pretty private around here. We could—”
    “No.” The word came out as a rasp.
    He spread his arms wide, making his pecs jump. “Why not? We could always go after the
burglar when we’re done—assuming you can still walk, of course. I could carry
you if you can’t. I’ll put you over one shoulder, catch the bad guy and throw
him over the other.”
    He’s
playing with me. “Screw you,” she said, feeling her face flush with
embarrassment.
    He frowned again. “What did I say?”
    Was it possible he was so wrapped
up in his own charm that he didn’t realize he was the biggest flaming asshole
in the entire world?
    “Let just keep going, Winnie,” she
said.
    He shrugged again and started off
once more, back on the trail of the perp.
    Just to keep herself talking, and
to think about something other than Rick’s magnificent ass flexing right in
front of her, she said, “We call him the Glitter Thief. The crook, I mean.
Well, obviously. Anyway, he likes to steal beautiful jewels—in fact, that’s all
he steals. No cash, no statues, no art. Just jewels. Pretty ones.”
    “I’d be just happy with cash.
Certainly not like my work pays much. Of course, I don’t know what I’d do with
the money. I’m happy with what I’ve got.”
    “Which crew are you with?” She knew
there were several bear shifter crews in the area; mostly they worked as
lumberjacks.
    “Pine Ridge,” he said.
    “Oh, you mean the guys restoring
the old ski resort?” It was called by the oh-so-original name of Pine Ridge Ski
Resort, and she knew the shifters that worked on it were called the Pine Ridge
Crew.
    “That’s the one,” he said.
    “Just why are a bunch of bear shifters restoring a ski resort, anyway?”
It was a question that had bothered her since the work on it had begun a few
months ago.
    “Um, so that we can run the ski
resort?”
    “Can the attitude, Winnie.”
    “Will do, Officer Hotpants .”
    She smirked. He really was