Shifters, Inc. The Bear Who Loved Me (A BBW paranormal romance)

Shifters, Inc. The Bear Who Loved Me (A BBW paranormal romance) by Georgette St. Clair

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she put her hand on Benedetta’s arm.
                  One of the waiters was making his way through the crowd towards them, with an angry, determined look. His hand was inside his apron.
                  Tonya leaped to her feet. “Waiter!” she screamed, and she saw Heath and the Beast spin around at the sound of her voice and start running towards her. They were all the way across the room; they wouldn’t get there in time. She leaped into the waiter’s path as he whipped out a knife and ran straight towards Benedetta.
                  With one flying kick, she knocked the knife out of his hand. He swung a fist at her and she ducked, responding with a quick left hook to the jaw that sent him staggering back. Moving forward, she kept up the attack, kicking him in the stomach, punching him in the face…
                  He fell to the ground just as a pile of security guards landed on him.
                  “Are you all right?” Heath looked panicked. She fell back a step, breathing hard.
                  “Never been better.” Except for the fact that my heart’s been ripped in tw o, she thought but didn’t say.
                  He looked bewildered. “Where did you learn to fight like that?”
                  She shrugged. “I mean, I’ve taken a self-defense class.” The waiter was being hauled away now, screaming curses in Italian. Antonia was standing at the side of the room, clutching her necklace and looking horrified.
                  “That was pretty good for one self-defense class.” Heath looked at her skeptically.
                  Was it? She’d never been in a street fight before.
                  She shrugged, turned and walked away. “Natural talent. Or maybe I’m lying and I’m secretly a ninja. Since apparently I can’t be trusted.”
                  He followed after her. “Really, are you sure you’re all right?”
                  The doors were open now, and she joined the stream of guests who were rushing out, chattering amongst themselves.
                  “As if you care,” she said bitterly.
                  “If I didn’t care, why would I get so upset about you and Reshef?”
                  She stopped, spun around and slapped him as hard as she could. He actually rocked where he stood, blinked in surprise and rubbed his cheek. “You pack quite a wallop.”
                  “If the way that you show that you care is by falsely accusing me of sleeping around, and then destroying your hotel room, and not even bothering to ask me before you throw accusations in my face, then screw you. Go care about someone else.”
                  She stomped off, head held high, blinking really hard so she wouldn’t burst into tears.
    * * *
                  Heath and the Beast stood outside Jake’s door, waiting for him to return so they could have a briefing.
                  “I saw you and Tonya in the café,” the Beast said. “What did you do to fuck things up there?”
                  Heath whirled to face the Beast, letting out a rumbling growl and unsheathing his claws. The Beast didn’t even blink. Nothing fazed him. In wolf form, he was enormous, the biggest wolf Heath had ever seen, and he’d taken down, among other things, a lion, a bear and a panther.
                  “Unless you want me to separate your head from your body, you won’t say another goddamn word.” Heath hoped the Beast would challenge him. He really, really needed an outlet for his pent-up emotions. He’d never felt so utterly horrible, bleak and despairing, and he could barely stand to be in his own skin right now.
                  To his surprise, the Beast didn’t rise to the challenge. He just fixed Heath with a calm, appraising look.

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