Shifters with Secrets (An MMF Bisexual Threesome)(34)

While she gazed at the stars Ellis memorized every detail of her beautiful face. She had a slender nose and a slight dimple on her right cheek. Her hazel eyes sparkled with starlight. Or was it sparkling from something else?

“I wonder if anyone is up there looking back at us?” She pulled her hand out from under the blanket and waved. “I wonder what they would look like?”

Not nearly as beautiful as you.

“Do you believe that?” he asked.

She rolled her head over and looked at him, her head leaning on the back of the chair. “Is it so impossible? Earth created life.” She looked back up at the sky. “Look at all of the stars. There’s got to be some weird creatures out there.”

Ellis looked away. There’s a weird creature beside you. What would she think if he told her that he was a shifter? A freak?

She was a human. He was positive of that. He could smell an animal from within and she had nothing but skin. There were too many odds stacked against him. He didn’t have a chance.

“Did you grow up here?” she asked.

He nodded. “I’ve lived here my whole life. My clan has been here for four generations.”

“Your clan?” she asked with her eyebrow raised.

“It’s just what we call my family.”

She stretched her feet out towards the fire to warm them. “I like your mom. She’s so nice.”

“She’s definitely a character,” he said, stretching his feet out beside hers. “She’s always on my case. She says I’m a spitting image of my dad.”

“Where is your Dad?”

“He died. When I was five. He was putting out a forest fire on the mountain and got caught in the middle of it. He was so brave. The elders tell stories of how he was such a daredevil and so adventurous. He wasn’t afraid of anything.”


“Do you remember him at all?” she asked.

He shook his head. “Just a few flashes of memory here and there. I remember him throwing me in the air and catching me. He had a big thick mustache. There’s a scene I remember of him chasing me and tackling me. I remember crying the day he died. Just snippets of time. But I don’t remember how he was. I only know that from the stories I hear.”

“I would’ve liked to have met him,” she said.

“Me too.”

She placed her hand on his. His heart rate increased. Warm tingling flowed from her fingers into his hand. Touch was very important to bear shifters and it was rare that Ellis had the chance to touch a woman. But this contact, this simple gesture, was unlike anything he had experienced before. This woman had such a profound effect on his body.

A bear always knows their mate when they smell them and now Ellis knew as well. He belonged with this woman. He didn’t care if she didn’t see it yet. She would be his even if if took years, decades even. Even if she never decided to be with him, he would always be hers. He would wait in eternity for her, never touching or looking at another woman in a sexual way ever again.

“Are your parents still alive?” he asked, when she took her hand back and hid it under the blanket.

She exhaled and stared into the fire for a long time. Ellis was about to ask if she was okay, when she finally spoke. “No. Not for me they’re not.”

She was hiding a lot of secrets and Ellis wanted to know everything about her. “Why are you here?”

Alexi never took her eyes away from the fire. “I…” she started and stopped. Ellis waited.

“I…should be going to bed.” She stood up and draped the blanket over her chair. She walked to her cabin and locked the door when she was hidden inside.





six



Alexi stretched out in her bed and moaned. The eager sun shone through the tiny window of her bedroom and draped across her face like a warm blanket. Nature’s alarm clock.

It was hot in the room so she slid the window open. She heard friendly chatter and smelled coffee brewing outside. She stumbled to the bathroom and surveyed herself in the mirror. Oh no. She tried to comb her hands through her thick, ruffled hair and her fingers got stuck. Is that a twig in there?

She decided to take a shower. She didn’t want Ellis to see her like this. She reprimanded herself for the thought. Why do you care? He’s just going to be a friend. That’s it.

But she wasn’t so sure. It was nice sitting with him by the fire last night. She felt so safe and warm beside him, like he had some sort of comforting effect on her. The opposite of her fiancee Greg. She was always on edge, afraid that any wrong movement would set him off, turn him violent.

She couldn’t remember the last time she enjoyed a night so much. These guys were so fun to be around. She never laughed so much.

She hoped that Ellis wasn’t upset for the way she abruptly ended the night. She was about to tell him everything but then panicked. She didn’t want to get too close. She didn’t want to get hurt again.

But now there was a glimmer of regret stubbornly floating through her mind that she had cut the evening short.

Alexi turned the faucet on in the shower. A light stream of brown water trickled out of the shower head. Ah shit. I guess it’s a hat day. She dug into her bag until she found her green army hat and put it on. She picked out her cute army shorts and a white tank top.

“Now that’s a vision to wake up to,” Finch said, as she walked out of her trailer.