Boarlander Beast Boar (Boarlander Bears #4)(29)
Beck turned her hands into little claws as she gripped her daily planner to her chest. With a frozen, feral smile for Clinton, she said too shrilly, “It’s okay. Everything is okay. Clinton, you’re out of the calendar!” There, take that, ass.
“Finally,” Clinton muttered. He lowered the chainsaw to the ground and hooked his hands on his hips. And then, dick out, he said, “Anyone want to get drunk and eat pizza rolls up at Bear Trap Falls with me?”
Bash raised his hand like he was a giant school boy. “Well, I want to—”
“No!” Beck hollered. “No, no, no. Clinton, you can go do whatever you want. You three are coming with me.”
“But”—Bash pouted—“he’s making pizza rolls.”
Harrison was grinning like this was the funniest thing he’d seen in his life, Kirk was laying on the ground, hands linked behind his head and definitely snoring, and Bash was now asking, “When’s lunch?”
“It’s eight in the morning, Bash. Didn’t you just have breakfast?”
Bash shrugged like that was a silly question. “Yeah, first breakfast.”
Beck blinked hard, shook her head, counted to three, and opened her daily planner again. “Bash,” she said, forcing a calm voice, “you’re up next. Your setting is the Boarlander woods. Somewhere pretty and mossy with lots of shade. Do you know a place that is close?”
Bash pointed to the tree line behind the trailers, twenty yards away. “That’s good.”
Clinton had sucked the wind straight out of her sails, so Beck sighed and said, “Great.”
She marched toward the woods, leading the others, and let Drea have the reins on Bash since he was much more open to direction. And while the behemoth was rubbing moisturizer over his rippling muscles, Beck let off a little sound of relief. Bash would take a better picture and not give her the mountainous pile of shit Clinton had.
And now she had to figure out an extra picture since she’d been depending on Clinton for January. She’d spent hours sketching out ideas and imagining how this would go, and in all the time she’d worked on this project, losing their first model right out of the gate hadn’t even crossed her mind.
She shook her head as she looked over the list of months.
January – Clinton, bear, Boarlander
February – Bash, bear, Boarlander
March – Harrison, bear, alpha of the Boarlanders
April – Kirk, silverback, Boarlander
May – Creed, bear, alpha of the Gray Backs
June – Matt, bear, Gray Back
July – Beaston, bear, Gray Back
August – Tagan, bear, alpha of the Ashe Crew
September – Haydan, bear, Ashe Crew
October – Bruiser, bear, Ashe Crew
November – Brighton and Denison, twin bears, requested shoot together, Ashe Crew
December – Damon, dragon, king of the motherf*ckin’ mountains
Meet Robbie tonight at Sammy’s, 9:00
“Crap,” she muttered. She’d been so caught up in everything here, she’d completely forgotten about her meeting with McFartFace. Irritated, she scribbled devil horns on Robbie’s name while she tried to work through who she would shoot for January. Everyone on her list was all the ones who had agreed to be in the calendar. Everyone else was a hard no. And she couldn’t split up the Beck brothers or they would bow out of the project. Theirs was going to be a music shoot with their guitars. Still shirtless and sexy, but their fans would be ravenous for a spread of both of them together.
“Hey,” Mason murmured right beside her ear.
“Aaah!” Beck yelped, jumping nearly out of her skin.
Mason backed away, barely saving the trio of coffees in his hands from spilling, a big old grin on his face. On his beautiful, shaven face.
“Mother of pearl,” she murmured as she dragged her gaze along his clean-shaven jawline. Dark eyes said his animal was content, a straight, strong nose, sensual lips lifted in a smile, and his chiseled jawline belonged on a model. And the deeper his smile grew, the deeper two sexpot dimples became.
“Beck.”
She wanted to swim in those dimples. She wanted to dive into them and backstroke around in them, then snuggle up and take a nap and wake up and squish her cheek against the sides of her dimple bed…
“Beck?” Mason said again, looking concerned now. “Are you okay?”
Will you marry me? Stop it. Breathe and stop being weird. He looks worried. Say something smart. “I saw Clinton’s dick.” Freaking perfect.
Mason’s dark eyebrows lifted slightly. “Everyone has seen Clinton’s dick. He’s real proud of it.”
“Mine’s bigger,” Bash called from where Drea was positioning him against a tree.
“Y-your ummm,” Beck stammered, gesturing to Mason’s perfect jawline and lips. “Your face is my favorite.”
“It’s my favorite, too,” Bash chimed in.
The worry in Mason’s eyes morphed to amusement, and was that a blush in his cheeks? “I roughed up your face last night and felt bad. Figured I’d shave for you so you don’t have to flinch away when we’re kissing.”
So he planned on more kissing! Eeeee! Beck cleared her throat coolly and murmured, “I really appreciate it. I loved you bearded, but this…” She lifted her fingertips to his face, hesitated for a moment, then brushed a light touch down his cheek. “This is a good surprise.”
T.S. Joyce's Books
- Return To The Bear (Bear Valley Shifters #3)
- Redeem the Bear (Bear Valley Shifters #5)
- Mate Fur Hire (Bears Fur Hire #3)
- Lowlander Silverback (Gray Back Bears #5)
- Husband Fur Hire (Bears Fur Hire #1)
- Bear Fur Hire (Bears Fur Hire #2)
- Novak Raven (Harper's Mountains #4)
- King of the Asheville Coven (Winterset Coven #1)
- Boarlander Silverback (Boarlander Bears #3)
- Betray the Bear (Bear Valley Shifters #4)