Brash Bear: BBW Bear Shifter Paranormal Romance (BRIDES fur BEARS Book 3)

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trouble.

CHAPTER
TWO

    As two giggling
elderly ladies came rushing towards her, Bella involuntarily scooted
nearer to the large, leafy potted plant in the corner.
    The two little grandmothers
looked kind and friendly, yet Bella moved to hide from them. She
didn't know why she did that. It was just an instinctive reaction.
She wasn't good in social situations, and people sometimes
overwhelmed her. She was thirty-five years old, for God's sake. She
knew she should be more confident, outgoing and assertive. She often
wished she could be extroverted and exciting, like the other girls.
Instead, she was just bookish and boring.
    Her job as a librarian suited
her to a tee, but it also meant she interacted more with books than
with people. That wasn't a problem for her, but some people found it
to be a problem. And they made it sound like the problem was her .
Like she was some sort of weirdo. That was what her ex-husband said
when she caught him with another woman. He needed a real, normal
woman, not a weird, frigid old maid who buried herself in books, he'd
scoffed.
    Bella made herself part of
the wall as she watched the two little old ladies dive gleefully
behind the rustling potted plant. She recognized them. She'd heard
people calling them Gramma and Ne-ma, and those two grandmothers were
the life of the party. They were bubbly, bawdy and full of energy
and enthusiasm.
    A few seconds later, Gramma
and Ne-ma emerged triumphantly with the bride and groom. Jax and
Serena had been trying to hide from the madness of their wedding to
steal a kiss behind the plant.
    “Well done, Gramma,
Ne-ma! You found her!” someone yelled jubilantly.
    “Yep! Here's our
bride! She's behind that big plant all along but she can't hide from
us!”
    “Come on, ladies!
Gather round!” Ne-ma hollered. “The bride's going to
toss the bouquet!”
    Bella felt a hand on her arm
and saw Gramma at her side. Gramma was the one with those
fashionable pink and blue streaks in her silver hair. “Come!
You're single, right?” Gramma asked, peering curiously at her.
    “Divorced,” Bella
blurted out.
    Gramma grinned. “Yep.
Single!”
    Bella protested weakly as
Gramma dragged her to the crowd of excited single ladies gathered
behind the bride. “Try and catch the bouquet,” Gramma
instructed before she hurried to the front of the jostling group.
Bella watched Gramma and Ne-ma elbow each other as they got into
position.
    The bride glanced over her
shoulder and winked at them. Laughing, Serena tossed the bouquet
high in the air.
    The ladies shrieked and
screamed in excitement as they all leaped up and reached for the
bouquet at the same time.
    Bella tried to get out of the
way as all the women made a frenzied grab for the bouquet. Bodies
collided, arms jerked and tangled, beer was spilled and someone lost
a shoe.
    Gramma and Ne-ma swore loudly
as they both jumped up at the same time and banged their heads
together. But they didn't catch the bouquet. The bridal bouquet
tumbled and sailed over all their heads.
    Gramma and Ne-ma brought a
dozen ladies down with them as they collapsed on the floor, cursing
and chortling at once.
    Bella backed away from the
confusion and chaos, and tried to get out of everyone's way.
    Her eyes rounded in alarm
when she saw a red-faced, panting lady careening towards a side
table.
    Bella reached out to steady
the poor woman.
    She lurched forward and
something plopped into her outstretched, upturned hands.
    Amid the ruckus, applause
broke out and people cheered.
    Bella had caught the bridal
bouquet.

CHAPTER
THREE

    Joshua Carlan watched the
single ladies of Shadow Point go crazy when his sister-in-law threw
her bouquet. This was his baby brother's special day. They were
twins but Jax was the younger twin, the baby of the family.
    Joshua was really happy for
his brother. The guy had found his true mate, and he had even gotten
a lively, lovable daughter. Jax had become the proud father of
Serena's five-year-old daughter,

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