Bearly Interested (8 page)

“I’m sorry about Becca,” Angie said, kissing him on the cheek. “I don’t know what she’s thinking. Mark is such a piece of shit.”

“Yeah well…” he muttered, looking at his foot that was drawing a circle in the dirt. “I just hope she’s happy.”

Grace caught her eye and shook her head quickly. Angie got the gist. It was best to not bring it up.

“Where is Sidney,” she asked. “I would like to speak with him.” Her stomach fluttered with nerves.

“Come here,” Connor said, waving her to follow him. They walked around the cabin to the river bank. “This is what I’ve had to deal with.”

Sidney was sitting on his kayak in the river surrounded by a group of a dozen or so women, all listening to him, hanging on his every word.

“What the?” Angie whispered to herself, feeling a pang of jealousy.

She watched his rugged, stubbled jaw as he spoke. He looked tired and worn out. He hadn’t shaved in days. The sun reflected off his cheek. She narrowed her eyes and saw that he was crying.

“That’s a bachelorette party,” Connor said. “They’re supposed to be having fun.”

She tried to hide her smile. He had all of these women in the palm of his hand and he was talking about her.

“I’ll make him feel better,” Angie said.

“Thank you,” Connor said, throwing his hands up in exasperation. “Sidney,” he called out as he ran to the river. “There’s someone here to speak to you.”

He perked up, scanned the area and almost fell off his kayak when he locked eyes on Angie. He navigated his kayak through the ladies and jumped onto the shore.

“Ahhh that’s her,” one of the girls said as he ran to her.

“Angie,” he said, towering over her. “What are you doing here?”

She glanced behind him at the women on the river staring at them, waiting to see what was going to happen. “Can we go somewhere private and talk?”

“Yeah but I have to…” he mumbled, pointing to the kayakers.

“Just go,” Connor said, pushing him. “I’ll take them out with Edwin.”

Connor ran to the shed and came out with his and Edwin’s kayaks. “Edwin!”

Edwin came running out of the forest a minute later wearing a shredded pair of shorts and nothing else. The knots of fabric clung together, exposing the defined V on his lower pelvis and the tops of his muscular legs.

The women stared at the two guides, all of them holding their breaths, as they placed their kayaks onto the water.

“Sorry ladies,” Connor said. “Change of guides.”

He pulled off his shirt in one fluid motion, his abs flexing as it came off. A woman with thick eyebrows and pink sunglasses on her head, flipped over backwards, plunging into the river. Her head popped out of the water a few seconds later with red cheeks minus one pair of pink sunglasses. The other girls exploded into laughter like they were preteens again.

Angie smiled, remembering how Grace, Becca and her were acting the first time they were here. They must have looked as star struck as those giggling women. These bear shifters really were hot.

“Is there somewhere we can go talk?” she asked, her hands fidgeting.

Sidney nodded and waved her to follow him. They walked into the guesthouse and sat at the dining room table in the same spots where they were sitting the first day they met. She flashbacked to his unwelcome foot playing footsie with her under the table.

“Yes,” he said, folding his hands in front of him on the placemat. “I’ll take you back.”

She snorted a laugh. “As if.”

“Then what?”

She took a deep breath. “I got the job in Switzerland.”

He looked devastated. His face looked like someone told him his puppy just died.

“But I didn’t take it,” she quickly followed.

He was breathing again.

“I have something else instead,” she said.

“Where in New Zealand?”

She shook her head. “Come.” She stood up and walked to the window. Mount Washington was in the distance with its snow capped peak thrusting into the sky. “Up there.”

“In the tree?” he asked, peering out with a focused face.

“No you idiot,” she said with a chuckle. “Really up. The mountain. Mount Washington.”

“What’s up there?” he asked.

“Nothing yet,” she said, gazing out. It was going to be incredible. “I threw out an idea to the company in Switzerland and they went for it.”

“A hot dog stand?”

“An observatory,” she said, squealing in delight. “It’s going to have the biggest telescope in this hemisphere. I’ll be able to continue my research at the spacial level. You see,” she explained, “I discovered that the quantum molecules release unpredictable waves when heated, but with the celestial currents emitted from space, they act in-”

“So what does that mean?” Sidney asked, grabbing her arms.

“I’m going to be working within walking distance from you. Well, walking distance for your bear that is.”

He lifted her up and squeezed her in a tight bear hug. Angie buried her face in his neck and wrapped her legs around his torso. He was so big that her feet couldn’t reach each other.

He lowered her to the floor and looked in her eyes. “So what does that mean for us?”

“I’ve been thinking a lot about that,” she said, biting her lip. “And I have no idea why but I kind of feel like we are meant to be together.”

His eyes were sparkling as his lips curled into a smile.

“I mean,” she said, “you say the stupidest things that just get under my skin but I feel it. I was working really hard to deny it. But I’m ready to accept it now. I would like to be with you.”

“Yes,” he yelled, fist pumping the air. “I win the challenge.” He threw his hands up in the air and did a ridiculous dance, looking like a baboon on ecstasy.

“You did not win,” she said, crossing her arms. “I withdrew myself from the competition.”

“Because you lost.”

“That horrible dance is really making me reconsider my decision,” she said.

He froze. “Well maybe this will confirm it for you.” He stepped forward and planted an inside melting kiss on her lips. She moaned into his mouth and his inner bear responded with a purr.

This was definitely a challenge worth losing.

epilogue

Five months later…

Angie closed her eye and peered into the telescope. The depths of space lit up before her, bright and full of endless mysteries. She moved the dial slightly to the left, one millionth of an inch at a time, until the star that she discovered popped into view.

She had discovered it so she got to name it. It was the first star in the universe named after a breakfast cereal. She gazed at Captain Crunch and smiled.

She sat back in her chair with her mittens on and sipped on a cappuccino. She breathed in the vapors as the liquid warmed her insides. It was autumn and chilly at the top of Mount Washington, but she didn’t mind. She loved this place. The Swiss company had set her up with all of the equipment that she needed and she was free to work on her experiments in a peaceful, tranquil setting. She had even published two highly regarded studies in the three months since it opened.

But all of that wasn’t the best part.

There was a thud on the door. She took another sip of cappuccino and then hopped down off the telescope to let her mate in. A cold breeze blew in through the door as she let in the polar bear waiting outside. He was holding the handle of a basket in his mouth.

She slipped off her mittens and dug her hands into the cold, furry scruff of the bear’s neck. She loved to hug her bear. He was so soft.

Sidney came to see her every night at this time, bringing her a delicious late dinner. They got to eat with each other every night under the stars. It was perfect. She couldn’t even imagine going back to the chaos of the city. This was too serene.

They had bought a cabin a few minutes walk from Brooke Excursions and Angie loved her new home. She would drive up the mountain, until the snow became too much, then she would take a snowmobile that the Swiss company provided, up the rest of the way. Sidney would walk up in his bear form.

She kissed her bear on his forehead and then headed back to her cappuccino, covering her ears as he phased. She hated the sound of his bones snapping. It was worse than fingernails on a chalkboard.

She sat on the telescope and peered back into it, up at the stars. Strong hands massaged her shoulders turning her insides to goo. She groaned as his hands worked.

After a few minutes she was nice and relaxed and his hands became more daring. More mischievous. His fingers worked their way down her back and unhooked the clasp of her bra. He massaged his way down her lower back, crept inside her shirt and rubbed back up, pulling her shirt up with his hands.

He slid his palms to her front and caressed her breasts under her bra.

“Excuse me,” she said, turning her head. “I don’t believe I ordered this with my massage.”

His hands continued to work, ignoring her playful protests. “No speaka English,” he said, in a funny accent.

“Well then it looks like it’s my lucky day.” She slid her shirt off over her head and pulled her bra down her arms. It was chilly in here. Her nipples perked up against the cold but it wouldn’t be long before he was keeping her warm.

He leaned over her shoulder and kissed her. Deep and passionate. Her pussy ached. She had been waiting for this all night.

“Sit,” she said, standing up.

She turned as he sat down in the telescope chair. He was naked, his enormous erection just waiting for her. He gripped it and bit his lip as she slid down her pants and underwear in front of him.

She glanced down at his thick cock and let out a tiny gulp. Even after all this time it still took some psyching up to get to ready to take in his impressive size.

Angie lifted her leg and straddled over him. She held onto the back of the seat as she got ready to lower her hips.

She smiled to herself. If only the Swiss company knew that she was using their four million dollar telescope as a sex chair.

She slammed her palm on the big red button beside the chair and the ceiling groaned as the two enormous slabs it was made of slid open. The night sky lit up the room in starlight; a trillion balls of hydrogen and helium exploding in a nuclear reaction a gazillion light years away all for their viewing pleasure.

The view brought the chilly autumn air with it. Sidney wrapped his warm, muscular arms around her, heating her up.

She reached down, grabbed his hard cock and slowly guided it into her moist tunnel as she lowered her hips. She gasped a whine as his tip pressed through, stretching and filling her completely. She looked down at his grimacing face as she panted and bit her lip.

His hairy chest was jacked and his arm muscles taut as they wrapped around her tiny body.

“You’re so tight,” he said. “I love it.”

His bear did too apparently. He was purring through Sidney’s chest.

She braced herself and held her breath for the last push. She sunk down on his cock until he was balls deep in her and groaning for more.

She planted her knees on the seat and rocked her hips as she pressed her breasts into his face. He sucked on her nipples while she slid back up his cock.

The first thrust was always the hardest. Her body started to relax and she bucked on him, riding him faster and faster.

She threw her head back, taking in the view of the stars as he rocked her world. His hands slid down to her ass cheeks, his fingers grazing through her crack and brushing against her starfish.

Her clit was throbbing as it slammed into his pelvis.

It was too hot in here. She hit the red button again, opening the doors all the way. The cool night air rushed in, tickling their heated bodies.

She picked up the pace as their chests heaved violently and their moans began sounding almost painful. Her legs burned as she rode him. She wanted to feel him release in her. She wanted to release on him.

Her pussy tightened around him as he arched his hips and drove into her harder and deeper. He picked up speed, pushing his hips up, grinding into her, building pleasure and anticipation with every thrust.

A bead of sweat snaked down between her breasts even though the air coming in was cool.

Her knees wobbled on the seat as thrilling heat flooded through her. “I’m gonna come,” she moaned into his neck. Every muscle in her body clenched. Her nails dug into his smooth arms. She was taken by surprise at how fast it came on.

She dug her mouth into his soft skin and screamed as the orgasm slashed through her. Her pussy clenched and pulsed on his cock as he fucked her relentlessly. She wrapped her arms around his neck tightly as her whole body shook and convulsed with hard, sharp jerks.

His hands clamped down on her ass cheeks as his hips bucked below her. He whipped his head back and cried out as his whole body shook and he pumped his load inside her. His body went weak. His hands fell off her ass and down to his sides. His head crumpled to the seat in exhaustion.

Angie collapsed onto him, exhausted as well. She rested her head on his shoulder and breathed in his sweet scent as his cock softened in her burning pussy. She listened to the soft purr of his contented bear and the soothing sound of his deep breathing.

She peeled her head off his shoulder and smiled as she tried to catch her breath. She glanced at the basket of food that his bear had brought with him. She had been waiting for him to arrive before eating. “I’m starving,” she said, with a chuckle.

They climbed down and slipped on some clothes. Sidney kept a stack of clothes on hand in the observatory because he always hiked up in his bear form.

Angie laid out a blanket on the floor as Sidney pulled out the barrage of Tupperware. Now she was feeling the chill of the night so she closed the ceiling, leaving it a touch open so that they could still eat under the stars.

Sidney opened a bottle of wine and pulled out two glasses. Angie held her stomach and grinned. She placed her hand over the top of her glass as he leaned over to pour the wine.

“None for me thanks.”

He jerked his head back and looked at the label, furrowing his brow the way he always did when he was confused. “It’s your favorite wine.”