Forbidden Bear (Bear Creek Biker Bears #1)(10)

His hips moved back, and then he thrust forward and she felt a stinging sensation. She tensed, but he soothed her, as though she were a wounded animal in his arms. Wasn’t that what she was, battered and bruised, but still strong, still able to match him stroke for stroke?

Relaxing, she lifted her legs and hooked them around his body, spurring him on. Joel moved, in and out, filling her with long lunges. Resting on his elbows, he watched her as her orgasm crept up on her. As she felt the tension slowly building, she wanted him to climax too.

Lifting her head off the bed, she kissed and nipped his neck, her hands sliding across his chest, exploring the contours of his body. His nipples were taut buds and she tweaked those, feeling him jerk hard into her. She captured one in her mouth, mimicking the way he had rolled his tongue over hers. What was good for a woman had to be good for a man, right?

Right. He exploded, his seed spurting deep inside her. Grinding his hips forward, he surged forward, until she thought he would split her in two. He cried out, his voice rising and then dropping in pitch as his bear roared inside him. The excitement passed from his body to hers, and her sex pulsed around him, gripping him tightly as she came.

Digging her fingers into his back, she urged him on. They rose together. Joel buried his face into her shoulder, kissing her, nipping her skin, and telling her she was his. Mia believed him. This changed the way her world worked. And she realised fully that being a bonded mate was not something you chose. She was his, he was hers, and nothing could ever change that. Even if they wanted to.

Bear and wolf mated for life. For better or for worse.





Chapter Ten – Joel


He held her close, trying not to think about the bruises on her face, but he couldn’t help it. She was his to protect, and he had to know what was going on with her life.

“Mia, will you please tell me who you fought with?” She lay face down, looking away from him as he stroked her back, feeling her soft smooth skin under his fingertips.

“It doesn’t matter. I put him in his place, he won’t bother me again.”

“Was he one of your own?”

“Yes. Like I said, they were pretty pissed you got the merchandise we were trying to sell. I needed the money, Joel. I know we were on your territory, but only because that’s where the buyer wanted to meet.” She turned to face him. “When I got back, I was accused of deserting them. I couldn’t exactly say I ran off because my mate was there. It’s one thing to be accused of cowardice; it’s another to tell them I’m mated to a bear.”

“Would it be that bad?” he asked, kissing her skin, breathing in her warm scent.

“What do you think? I guess you never told your clan either?”

“True. But that’s more because they would have wanted to know all about you and I didn’t want word to get back to Wolf Valley. Not until we are ready to tell everyone.”

“I don’t think that’s ever going to happen.” She sighed and he knew she wasn’t joking.

“I am not going to run around behind everyone’s back like we have a guilty secret.”


“We do have a guilty secret.”

“Hal and Fiona worked it out. She was from Wolf Valley.”

“Exactly, was from Wolf Valley. Now she lives in Bear Creek and can’t move back.” She turned onto her back, looking directly as him while she spoke. “And I don’t know whether I will be welcome in Bear Creek. It was my brother who chased Fiona; she is my cousin.”

He let the breath out between his teeth with a whistle. “Small world. So that’s why you paused as you came up the pass. I had no idea.”

“Yeah, well I wondered for a minute there, if you knew and this was some sick joke.”

“No. No joke at all.” No wonder she had acted oddly. “He ride with your guys? Was he in the motorcycle club?”

“He ran it.” She stared at the ceiling, and then continued, as though knowing she could trust him, which he found gratifying. Mia was beginning to open up to him. “That’s how come I am in charge. When he came back, he had been a wolf too long. We had to get a special nurse to come and coax him back to being human. But the wolf lingered.”

“I know they had trouble with him. Never knew it was that bad.”

“The cold and everything got to him. He spent two days out in the snow, no food, freezing. By the time he came back he didn’t have enough energy to complete the change.” She put her hands over her face, and he wondered if she was trying to hide her tears. “Anyway, I had to take over the gang or else they would have run us out of town. We have no alpha, so there is no one to oversee these things. It’s mob rule.”

“That was the only way to save your family.”

“Yes. Now there seems to be no way out.”

“There’s always a way, Mia; there is always a way. Together we can find it. We can make this right. Because I am sure as hell not going to sneak around with you.” He leaned over and kissed her. “I want you in my bed, every night. And I do not intend to be beaten in that.”





Chapter Eleven – Mia


He certainly showed her his intentions. They made love through the night, and when she woke up it was late morning.

“Damn it. I have to go. I’m supposed to be somewhere.” She got out of bed quickly, but he pulled her back to him.