Big Bear: BBW Bear Shifter Paranormal Romance (BRIDES Fur BEARS Book 4) (6 page)

“Hey, hey, it's okay,” Nick said, taking her by the shoulders. “It's okay. You have shifter blood in you. Sometimes the shifter gene skips a generation. It happens.”

“You're a bear, right?” She gripped his arm desperately. “You have a great sense of smell. Can you...smell my animal? What am I? Tell me, please. What do I do? I don't even know what to do! I think I'm going mad. I don't want to lose my mind and turn into an animal...”

“You're not losing your mind, Zoe.”

“I am! I so fucking am! I...oh God, Nick.” She was gripping his arm so tightly her nails were digging painfully into his flesh. “Please...you have to leave...just go, Nick!”

“Why?”

“Because...” Her eyes snapped open suddenly and her golden eyes flashed with a feral, predatory hunger.

“I...can't control myself...I want you, Nick. You!”

Zoe tried to pull away from Nick but her body wouldn't let go. Her fingers stubbornly clung to his shoulders even as her brain screamed at her to release the man.

Nick wasn't helping. In fact, he seemed to be conspiring with her body to defy her brain. His arms circled her waist and pulled her flush against him.

“Nick...let me go...”

She felt his lips curve against her neck. “Never,” he growled.

Unconsciously, she writhed against him, increasing the delicious friction between their bodies. Her hands should be shoving him back. She should be pushing him away. Instead, she was clinging to his powerful shoulders, begging him silently to take her.

“What's happening to me?” she sobbed. Her body was begging, screaming to be touched and she felt a bone-deep need to be with Nick, to have him completely, fully, deeply. She wanted, needed to have him inside her, to join their hearts and bodies…

Her eyelids fluttered as she tried to focus. She shook her head but there was no clearing that fog that was shrouding all her senses. She was just crazed with lust, with hunger and need.

“You are in heat, Zoe,” Nick said, his voice low and ragged. “And your body recognizes that I am your mate. The hunger and need for your mate is powerful and undeniable. I won't deny you. I can't...” He took a jagged breath. “I can never deny you, Zoe.”

Zoe lifted her face to him, and his mouth crushed over hers. Her mouth opened for him immediately, and she felt her nipples harden. She rubbed wantonly against his solid chest, trying to get closer to him, to feel more of him. She wanted to tear his infuriating shirt right off his back. She didn't want anything between them. She wanted them bare and naked, and feel the raw, animal heat between them.

Zoe wrapped her legs around his hips and Nick immediately cupped her buttocks with his large hands. The sight of Nick shoving her nurse uniform up to her waist and ripping away her panties with his claws made her pussy clench and squirt.

Pushing her against the wall, Nick unzipped his jeans with one hand and released his huge, hard cock. Zoe gasped as Nick buried himself inside her with one forceful thrust. Her walls stretched and rippled, and the fleeting pain gave way to pleasure.

Nick bit her breast through her bra as he fucked her. Zoe cried out in ecstasy as Nick pounded relentlessly into her. He kept moving faster and harder, and she could feel the tips of his claws digging into the fleshy globes of her buttocks. The pain and the pleasure spiraled to an explosive climax, and Zoe screamed as she came.

As she shuddered, Nick swung her into his arms and carried her to her bedroom.

There was a tearing sound, and Zoe realized that her uniform was falling from her body in shreds.

Blinking, she saw Nick shed the rest of his clothes and prowl towards her.

Zoe licked her lips at the sight of his magnificent, powerful body. Nick was tanned, broad and huge all over. She couldn't hide her triumphant smirk when she saw his cock glistening with her juices.

She wanted to rub her body all over him and mark him with her scent. He was off limits to other females now.

She had never felt so territorial and possessive over any man before. But that was because none of the men she had been with before had been truly, completely hers.

But Nick was hers. All of him. Forever.

Zoe stared down Nick's ripped, impressive body. The sight of his large, erect cock made her lick her lips greedily. His cock would only know her body from now on. Nick was
hers
. Every delicious, masculine inch of him belonged to her.

Pushing herself up on her knees, Zoe crawled across the mattress to Nick and looked up at him. Staring deep into his eyes, she parted her lips and slipped his cock inch by inch into her mouth.

Nick sucked in a breath when he felt Zoe's lips wrap around his cock. She took him deep into her mouth and sucked hard. His eyes almost crossed when she swirled her tongue around the sensitive tip of his cock.

“Zoe...” he grated, fisting her thick wavy hair.

Her eyes had turned gold and were glowing with heat and hunger. The scent of her animal was growing stronger, but Nick still couldn't identify it. He had never in his life come across such a unique, extraordinary scent.

Nick inhaled deeply, savoring the distinctive, amazing scent of his mate. He didn't care what kind of shifter she was. He only cared that she was his.

Nick gritted his teeth and growled as Zoe lapped up his pre-cum and licked her lips in appreciation. He wanted to throw her on her back and take her hard, but he wouldn't deny his mate his body. He was hard and hungry for her, but she owned him. She could take what she damn pleased and torture him for as long as he could control himself.

But his control was fast fraying.

Pinning him with her golden, glowing eyes, Zoe inched his huge cock into her mouth and cupped his aching balls in her palm. Nick growled dangerously and tensed as she took her deeper and faster. Her head was bobbing and she was making a soft, humming sound at the back of her throat. The suction and vibration was pushing him too close to the edge.

With a sudden roar, Nick pulled out of her mouth and threw her on her back. He pushed her legs wide part and shoved his cock forcefully into her wet, tight pussy.

Zoe cried out as he began to fuck her furiously. He wanted to take her hard, feel her body spasm around him and watch her tits bounce as he thrust into her. He wanted to claim her completely, make her surrender her pleasure to him and shatter violently beneath him.

Nick grabbed her generous breasts in his hands and thumbed her dark, erect nipples. She whimpered and grew wetter, lubricating his cock as he pistoned in and out of her.

Bending down, he bit the side of her breast and licked his way up to the pebbled peak. He teased and tormented her sensitive nipple with his tongue and lips, making her pant and beg.

Arching her back, she pleaded silently for him to take more. Her muscles were rippling and tightening, squeezing him rhythmically. Nick slammed into her again and again, pushing himself deep into her slick, wet heat. He suckled her hungrily, savoring the taste and feel of her in his mouth, in his arms.

Zoe raised her hips to him, taking him deeper into her body. Her eyes were fully golden, and when she pressed her hands to his shoulders, he felt her fingers curl into...talons.

Her talons were curved and sharp, and she drew blood when she clawed at his back. She gouged deep into his flesh, raking down his shoulder blades to his hips. There was a territorial, possessive, predatory gleam in her golden eyes. She was staking her claim, marking him as hers.

Nick snarled at the sharp pain and gripped her harder. He loved how tightly she was holding him with her talons. She would rather rip the flesh from his back than let him go.

Roaring with pride, Nick grabbed her and bit deeply into her shoulder. Zoe cried out, and her body shook and spasmed violently beneath him as she orgasmed. As she shattered in his arms, Nick released his seed deep into her hot, clenching body. He kept moving inside her even after she had milked every drop of cum from him.

Breathing hard, they collapsed on the mattress, their glistening bodies still entwined.

When Zoe opened her eyes, Nick saw that the golden light was beginning to fade. Her eyes were human again, and her talons had vanished.

Swallowing, Zoe raised her hands and turned them over slowly. “Did I shift? I felt myself...change. How is that possible?” she murmured. “I don't know how to shift. I've never done it before...”

“Mating is intense,” Nick said, drawing her close to him. “My bear will not be kept from its mate. When shifters claim their mates, they claim everything and give everything. Mating involves the animal and the human. You give yourself wholly and completely to your mate. There is no holding back. And—there is no going back.”

He sat up and heard her cry of distress. Immediately, he turned around. “What is it, Zoe?”

She pointed at the deep gouges in his back. The blood hadn't even dried. “I did that. Oh my God! I'm so sorry. I hurt you...”

“You didn't hurt me. You marked me,” Nick said smugly. “Everyone knows I belong to you now.”

“Oh.” She blushed. “Oh.” Tilting her head, she frowned and chewed her lip for a moment. “For twenty-nine years, I thought I was human,” she muttered. “So...am I an eagle shifter? My hands turned into talons. My dad was half eagle...”

“Honestly, I don't know. Your scent is not fully avian,” Nick answered.

She blinked at him. “What does that mean?”

“It means that you are not a full eagle shifter. You...”

“So I can't shift fully into an eagle? I just have talons, but no beak and wings and other eagle parts? Is that what you're saying?” She winced, looking disappointed and frustrated.

“No, Zoe. I didn't say that.” He pulled her to him and embraced her lovingly. “I don't know if you can shift fully or partially. Your animal is only just emerging. You've lived almost thirty years of your life as a human. My bear was with me since I was an infant. But for you...”

“But why?” She fretted and wrung her hands. “Why didn't my animal emerge earlier? Why now?”

Nick shrugged. “Sometimes a shifter's animal is awakened by a traumatic event. The animal may emerge suddenly to protect the human from danger. My old neighbor shifted into his bear for the first time when he lost control of his car during a rainstorm. His bear emerged and saved his life. He was sixty at the time of his first shift.”

Zoe was silent for a long while. “So what made my animal emerge now?”

“Well...” Nick smiled and puffed out his chest. “Sometimes when the animal recognizes its mate...”

Zoe rolled her eyes at him and punched his arm. “You're saying that my animal recognized you as its mate. So my animal emerged for you.”

“You went into heat when I was kissing you,” he pointed out.

“I...you...” she spluttered.

“You can't deny it,” he teased. “You want me.”

Growling, she wrestled him down and straddled him. “I am going to torture you, Nick. For hours. You will be in agony, the whole night.”

Nick let his feisty little mate pin his wrists to the mattress. “I'll tie you up so you can't touch me,” she threatened.

At that, Nick groaned. “You are serious about torturing me, aren't you?”

“Dead serious.”

Nick stretched himself out, wondering if he would splinter her bed frame when he jerked himself free of whatever flimsy restraints she had in mind and lunged for her. “This will be the sweetest agony,” he drawled.

He admired the way her wide hips swayed as she sauntered to her drawers and pulled out some colorful fabric.

“What do you have there?” he asked lazily.

“Scarves. Silk scarves.”

She came to him and stretched his arms out. “I'm going to tie you up with these soft, silk scarves,” she breathed in his ear. “And you will have to remain still and let me do what I want with you. You must not tear any of these delicate scarves, understand? These are my favorite scarves.”

Nick's eyes widened. It would have been better if she strapped him down with steel handcuffs or iron chains. He could easily break them, but this. “Oh, you evil, evil woman.”

Zoe laughed. “It's not me. It's my animal—whatever it is!”

Zoe clapped and hooted with the rest of the hospital staff when they heard the announcement. It was now about a week after the auction night, but people were still talking about the thrills and spills of that night. It had indeed been a wild, incredible night, in more ways than one.

All the checks had come in. Nick had promptly sent a check to the hospital for fifty thousand dollars, and had a gigantic box of chocolates delivered to Zoe while she was at work so she could share the chocolates with her colleagues.

The hospital director had announced that they'd raised more than enough money to upgrade the children's wing. The renovation and extension works would be starting soon, so some of the beds and equipment would have to be moved. The renovation works would be done in stages to minimize disruption to the hospital operations, but still there would be some inconvenience and disturbance.

“Nick donated the biggest amount, so he has the honor of naming the new wing,” her colleague, Georgia, told her. “I think we can expect it to be called the Zoe wing!” Georgia added with a giggle.