The Bear Prince: A BBW Bear Shifter Billionaire Paranormal Romance Novella (Seattle's Billionaire Bears Book 3) by Sable Sylvan Page A

there was to learn about Damien, but was that something she wanted to do? Would that change everything about the image she had in her head of the man that she’d fallen in love with over the last few weeks?
    Love . There was the word she didn’t dare think about, the word that had her heart in knots. Love . The feeling she had for Damien. There was no denying it. That was something that wouldn’t change, no matter what she did. All that looking up Damien would do was make her forever regret that she had looked into him at all.
    Tangie came over with ice cream, a bottle of peach gelato liquor, and a bottle of cherry seltzer, so they could make cheap and easy cocktails while they put on a cheesy goofball comedy, nothing serious, and absolutely nothing with even a hint of romance. It took a while before Crystal finally opened up.
    “Tangie...thanks for texting me,” said Crystal.
    “Really?” said Tangie. “You’re not mad that I ruined it?”
    “You didn’t ruin jackshit,” said Crystal. “If Damien had just been honest with me, I wouldn’t be upset right now. But no, instead, he had to do something stupid, he had to lie. There’s a lot I can tolerate. You know that. But lying...that’s not one of them.”
    “Do you think this really counts as a lie?” asked Tangie.
    “Come on, Tangie, whose side are you supposed to be on?” asked Crystal, tossing a pillow at her best friend.
    Tangie hugged the pillow to her chest. “Oh, I’m on yours, sugar, but...I think that maybe, the kind of help I can give you isn’t the kind you wanna hear.”
    “Tangie. You know me, and you know the two things I hate are lies and bullshit,” said Crystal. “So don’t bullshit me. Be honest, tell me what you really think.”
    “Well because you asked...you better brace yourself for a truth bomb, honey,” said Tangie. “I think Damien made the biggest mistake of his life by lying to you, but you’re making the biggest mistake of your life by not talking to him about this. Your celebrity boyfriend lied to you about his money. But really, it wasn’t that big of a lie. At this stage of a relationship, would a guy tell you how much he makes and what his net worth is? No. Probably not. And you could’ve learned all this about Damien if you had just looked him up online, and you didn’t, and hey, girl, that’s your right, but, you can’t get mad that he had a reasonable expectation regarding his privacy, and that he was enjoying your company.”
    “Why didn’t he trust me enough to just tell me?” asked Crystal.
    “Because you two crazy kids have only known each other for what, a month?” said Tangie. “That’s nowhere near enough time to gauge whether or not you can really trust someone. He’s a frikkin’ billionaire, Crystal. A celebrity billionaire, with rock hard abs, from an old money shifter family. You can bet your bottom dollar that some uncle and some lawyer sat him down as soon as he started producing testosterone and let him know that he better not squander the family fortune on the first beautiful thing to cross his eye.”
    “He really is from a whole other world, isn’t he,” said Crystal, lying back on the couch. “Ugh. I don’t think that billionaires and I match...or shifters either, for that matter.”
    “What, the chemistry’s not there? Sex isn’t hot enough?” teased Tangie.
    “No, the sex was great,” admitted Crystal. “You ever bone a shifter?”
    “Of course, I do very well with shifters,” bragged Tangie. “They’re a lot of fun.”
    “You know what’s weird about doing it with shifters?” said Crystal. “That thing that happens to their chest.”
    “What thing?” asked Tangie.
    “You know, that glowing thing, with their chest,” said Crystal. “After you both come, their mate mark, it glows. It’s weird but cool. The fact the mate mark changes based on who they’re attracted to...that’s cool too.”
    “Huh,” said Tangie. “Crystal...did you take sex