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"So you can't have sex?"
 

"Oh I can, I just vowed not to."

"Until when?"

"Mid December."

She did the math, realizing that she'd probably not make it that long.

"And there's another thing I haven't told you." He looked away when he spoke. He knew this may be the one thing that made him lose her.

"Yes?"
He's married, oh god, he's married I knew it.

"I'm a bear shifter."

"You're a what?" she leaned in, sure she didn't hear him correctly.

"I'm a bear shifter, Emily"

The room was quiet for a while as she processed it. What would this mean, exactly? Was she strong enough to accept this?

"You know, one of my online friends is married to a wolf shifter."

And that was it. No questions, no answers, just that. She laid there and rested as he held her hand. Soon she'd be strong enough to leave the hospital, and when she was he'd be taking her home to live with him. No questions, no answers, just that. For as long as they had.

Chapter Nine: Two Check Offs

It had been a few weeks since they returned from the hospital. Emily was growing stronger under Holden's 24/7 care. He'd shifted a few times in her presence, and where he'd always felt ashamed and less of a man for it, she laughed and loved it - making him stronger than ever.

That night, while curled up together in bed, Emily's hand went to his inner thigh. Softly stroking upwards, he felt his cock grow hard.

"Emily, baby, I don't think we should. It'd take all your strength."

"How about we make a deal.'

Interesting, what does she want to bargain?

"What deal?"
 

"One tremendously powerful night of sex, and then I promise we will be good for the rest of the time I'm here." Neither of them counted days or weeks anymore, they knew it was going to happen and didn't want to be reminded of how close it was. "I'll knock 'one time fling' off my list and be able to scratch off 'find true love' as well."

"Are you sure?" he didn't want to do anything to hurt her or lessen the time he had, but he knew it was just as important to her as it was to him.

"Completely. I want you and your bear to know everything about me, every gasp and sigh, every curve and feature."

Holden buried his face in her neck, not needing to be told twice. His lips found hers and parted her lips to kiss her deeply. His hands went under her, finding her wetness and teased her clit. She sighed deeply in his ear as her hands worked to graze his cock with her fingernails.

"Don't you dare hold back, promise me that." She murmured into his bare flesh.

"I won't, I promise, hold on." He growled as he tossed her back onto the bed. He had the strength of ten men as he picked her up effortlessly and slid her onto his lap. He teased her gently at first, easing just an inch or so inside her wet folds.
 
Just barely easing it in and out, making her crazed with longing. His teeth nibbled at her nipples, bringing his tongue to lick at the corners of her breasts.

"Oh you're driving me crazy, Holden." She gasped.
 

"Really, let me speed that up then. Buckle up." He roared as he plunged her fully onto his erect cock. He twitched and grew inside of her as he felt her inner walls contract and expand around him. Her essence oozed all around him and her muscles milked his cock of every drop of pre-cum. Over and over again he drove himself deep within her, stretching her as he continued to grow. Long and hard, he pounded her as he ground her clit over his pelvis, causing her to shudder.

Her breath was ragged, her pulse raced, and he could sense her blood pressure rise. She had never experience raw lust and the animalistic force that was driving him to fuck her as hard as he was. She kept finding herself at the brink of orgasm only to have him slow down and wait for it to subside before drilling back into her.

She was right on the edge, breath coming in spurts, when he threw her up off of him and dangled her above his mouth. Tongue out, he pulled her down on to it and licked her as if she was the last water spot in the desert. Sucking and biting her thighs, she came violently on his face, gasping and moaning his name over and over again.

That was all he needed to bring himself right to where he needed to be as he pushed her back onto the bed and dove back inside her with a force of nature. His cock darted in and out of her before exploding inside. She could feel it hit, sending spurt after spurt of his hot cum deep within her.

Tired, worn, and thoroughly spent, they curled around each other.

"Did you mean what you said earlier?" he asked her as she played with the little tufts of fur that poked up from time to time.

"Which part?" she wondered.

"When you said that about being able to cross off true love." He knew he loved her, but he wanted to hear that she loved him too. Needed that.

"Yes, completely. I love you Holden, you have to know that by now."

"I love you too." He smiled, wrapping her up in his strong arms, vowing to care for her all of her days. He'd protect her from anything that could harm her. He'd be the man she needed him to be; the man he'd always wanted to be.

Chapter Ten: Holden, Holding On

"You can have the shop, Jason" Holden said before he even was seated. He agreed to meet up with Jason to talk about what had been going on, and about him overseeing the shop for a while.

"Whoa dude, slow down, just talk to me."
 

Holden spilled everything about what was going on. How he had already had sex and was going to spend the rest of Emily's days with her. He had the savings to last a few months and he didn't want to waste moments he could be making memories with her. The shop would be there next year, Emily however wouldn't.

"Holden, you seriously think I'd take the shop over that?"

"I was hoping you'd manage it while I was gone, actually"

Jason looked at his friend, saw the pain in his eyes that peeked through the beaming happiness that radiated in his face. He knew it would be the happiest and the saddest time of his life already, he needed someone to keep his life running while he stopped. Jason knew he'd be that someone.

"Of course man, of course. Now, tell me all about Emily"
 

Two hours later, Holden was walking down the sidewalk in the misting rain. He stopped at the flower stand and picked up some flowers and made his way to his lonely apartment, made not so lonely by the new presence of Emily.

My girlfriend, Emily.

It was then he realized what he wanted to do, what he'd always wanted to do.

"Emily, I'm home honey." He called as soon as he got to the doorway.

"In here" she called back from the far bedroom.

He walked in, smiled, and stood in the arch separating the bedroom from the hall.

"What?" she quizzed him, half smirking.

"You know I love you right?"
 

"Of course I do, why? What's wrong?" she was starting to get alarmed which set off fits of coughing.

Holden rushed to her side and held her as the coughs subsided.

"I just wanted to know if you'd be my wife?" he asked as he pulled out a small diamond ring and placed it in her hand.

"There's no future with me, Holden"

"Oh baby, that's where you're wrong. There's no future without you."

Preview of
Bearly Hanging On: Book Two

A man who took a vow of celibacy meets a woman with nothing to lose. Sparks fly for these fated mates, but to what end?

Holden couldn't believe he finally met his one true love after vowing to withhold from sex and women. His goal of taking it slow and building something that would last a lifetime was firmly in the cross-hairs.

Emily had nothing to lose. With only months left to live, there is no slow and there is no more lifetime left for her. She's the fast-track that Holden wasn't prepared to meet.

Can a miracle keep these two together and give them their happily ever after?

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Jake

"Holy shit."

"We were staying there, weren't we."

"Yep."

"Anybody leave anything valuable there?"

"No."

"No."

"No."

"Don't think so."

"Negative."

The six friends stared at the sight, having exited their vehicles once it became clear they weren't going to be able to go any further. Other people crowded the streets, watching, pointing and even a few were crying.
 

The entire evening sky was lit up with a brilliant orange hue as flames towered into the sky, flicking up towards the clouds that were forever out of their reach. Shadows danced and played across their faces, creating intricate patterns in the dark. The friends looked on, as the campground they had come to stay at burned to the ground.

 
Jake had to admit, the sight of it was just as awe-inspiring as it was terrifying. Mother Nature had a stupendous amount of power, and when she displayed it like so, it became obvious just how little control its inhabitants truly had. Standing so close to her wrath, he could only be thankful that it appeared nobody had been hurt, especially amongst his friends.

The firefighters seemed to have the blaze under control, for they could see streams of water arcing out over the treetops towards the biggest blazes, and overhead a chopper dumped a huge load of water that seemed to diminish it. Even standing on the far side of the street, with 2 lanes of concrete and an unknown amount of untouched forest between them, the heat was intense on their faces.

"Let's go raise a glass to good health, shall we?" he said later, after they had watched the firefighters contain most of the blaze. Jake was the leader of the pack, so there was no dissent.
 

The heat warmed their backs quickly as they moved away. Behind the men, buildings that had once proudly bore the words Muller Lodge & Campground continued to sizzle as water sprayed across them, cooling the ashes.

"This just sucks," Chase complained as they sat down with their beers.

"We'll be okay." That was Kevin, another of the group.

"I wonder how the fire started anyways," Jake pondered out loud. "At least it was located in town, and not out in the country."

"Amen to that," Chase said, raising his glass. Muller L&C had appealed to the traveling group from the start as an interesting place to stay. Spread out over forty acres of forested property, it was right in the middle of downtown Moonshine Canyon. They had discovered rather rapidly, that despite a population of almost five thousand, the so-called downtown area was not anything similar to that of the bigger cities.
 

Still, it was an unusual place for a campground to be located, so they had booked a week. Now, with it no more than a pile of embers, the group would have to decide what to do next. Jake knew they were waiting on him to make the call, but he wasn't quite ready to abandon Moonshine just yet. Despite the quirky name for the town, he had a the inkling that they weren't finished with it yet.
 

"We'll find a place to sleep outside of town and revisit things in the morning," he said in response to the unspoken questions each of them had. Staying out in the open appealed to them all, so once again there was no quarreling. The
 
door opened abruptly, drawing his attention away from the table.
 

The woman who walked through was so white in the face she could have been a ghost. His eyes stayed laser-focused on her as she walked up to the bar, looking as if her entire world had come crumbling down. Yet for all that, she was the most transcendently beautiful woman he had ever seen in his entire life.

Jake Jeffries was in love and he knew it. This woman was the one he would eventually call his wife and mate, who would bear his pups. The flush of blood that rushed out from his swiftly beating heart flowed through his body, pooling between his legs as his cock hardened.
 

From the corners of his eyes, he could vaguely make out his friends, who had turned at the sound of the door opening, but swiftly went back to their conversation. They didn't see what he saw in her, didn't appreciate her beauty the way he did. That was fine, for she was to be his mate, and not theirs. Even as those thoughts flowed through his mind, they disappeared, displaced by what he noticed about her.

He became oblivious to all that was going on in his body as well, for he could sense pain radiating off of this gorgeous figure, her entire body lit up with a neon sign asking for help. Before he knew what he was doing, Jake was halfway across the room, bearing down on her to lend his assistance in any way he could. She was clearly in distress, and he could hear it in the way she mumbled to the bartender.