by Sable Sylvan
“Doc...what sex is the baby?” asked Talia, looking to Cedar and squeezing his hand.
“It’s a girl, and she’s big and healthy,” said the doctor. “What would you like to name her?”
Cedar and Talia looked at each other and smiled, before turning to the doctor and saying, at the same time, “Talia.”
...and they lived happily ever after...
Sneak Peek: Three Grizzlies Gruff
The security cameras at Craston Bros. Honey showed the one thing that Daisy Craston despised most: three grizzlies who she recognized, even in their shift.
They were making their way across her land, and they were gruff, stalking their way through her land without even caring to look back and see if anyone was watching them, least of all Daisy Craston. They knew that there were security cameras: they just didn’t care. If the trespassing hadn’t gotten on Daisy’s last nerve, the disrespect did. They could at least pretend to care about being caught, at least try to run through the land rather than walk through the rows of berries. Although the bears never touched her fruit, the fact they were on her land, without so much as asking for access, was enough to get her blood boiling.
Daisy picked up her trusty shotgun and headed out. She was wearing her standard jeans and boots, as well as a navy blue tank top, a red bandana tying the front of her hair back, the rest of her hair in a long braid that went a few inches below her shoulders and hit her back, her curves swaying back and forth with every step through the rain and mud.
She made her way angrily across the fields of marionberries. “What in tarnation do you think you grizzly bastards are doing?” she said angrily as she made her way across the field, shouting to the three shifters, who, upon sighting Daisy, hid behind the marionberry bushes...or rather, tried, and rather poorly.
Daisy cocked her gun, keeping her finger off the trigger as she made her way to the big clump of brown fur. The three grizzlies were huddled together. “Oh heck no, you’re not going anywhere,” said Georgia, her gun in the face of one of the grizzlies. “You’re trespassing: there’s no two ways about it, and you know what the sheriff said last time I caught you boys on my land. You thought I was joking? Well, you thought wrong.”
One of the bears roared, up into the air. “Don’t give me any of that guff,” she said, not moving her gun. She wasn’t going to shoot unless she was attacked, and she knew these boys wouldn’t hurt her. Well, she was ninety percent sure. While she was pretty sure these were shifters, she wasn’t sure enough to leave her trust shotgun at the farmhouse. “Get out of those shifts, you’ve got explaining to do.”
All at once, the three bears in front of her morphed back into men, who were huddled together in the mud, covering their nakedness with their hands. As they shifted, Daisy shot into the ground away from the group, spooking the bears, before unloading the gun. “Please don’t call the sheriff,” begged the center man, Bill Shepherd. He was covered from head to toe in mud, mud covering his entire chest, same as the rest of the guys.
“Give me one good reason not,” said Daisy, looking over the man. She knew the type: cocky, the kind of guy who got away with a lot, but when faced with someone who didn’t take an ounce of his nonsense, turned into jelly. Men were the same no matter where she went. “You come onto my land, after being told to keep away.”
“Listen, we need to get through here for the moon watching ceremony,” said the one to the left of the man, Will Jackson. He was taller but not as buff as the shorter man. “Your farm is the only way we can get to our traditional moon watching spot.”
“Well, last I checked, it’s the bright of day,” said Daisy, pointing up towards where the sun would be if it wasn’t raining. “Okay. Maybe not so bright. But it’s day, dang it.”
“Maybe we can come up with a trade,” said the third man, who was medium height and strength.
“Oh yeah, what sort of a trade?” asked Daisy, squinting.
“You could go on a date with any of us, or all of us, if you wanted,” said the average sized man, Liam Donovan, the leader of the trio and the one whose gears were constantly turning, coming up with plan after plan, many of the plans half-assed and fully hare-brained.
Daisy squinted. “Liam Donovan, are you out of your frikkin’ mind?” asked Daisy. “Y’all are varmints, and would I date a raccoon I found digging through my trash? No frikkin’ way. Who are you to ask me, a good Texan woman, on a date, while you sit naked in the mud like a mangy polecat who done seen the wrong side of an alligator?” Whenever Daisy blew a fuse, she started to get even more Southern, her Southern accent and her colorful phrasing bubbling up.
“Daisy...it’s coming close to harvest season,” said Will. He’d have to beat Liam up later for his dumb suggestion. “Your grandfathers always hired locals to help out with the harvest. It’s hard work, picking berries.”
“It is...but what are you getting at?” asked Daisy. Will was the smartest of the three grizzlies...which meant she trusted him the least.
“We’ll help you out with the harvest for free, every weekend during the season, if you let us use your land to get to the woods,” said Will.
“Every week?” asked Daisy suspiciously. “What’re you trying to do, Will?”
‘Just...get us access to that land, is all,” said Will. Well, it was half true: the land wasn’t the only thing he wanted access to. “The moon ceremonies in the autumn are very special to us, what with the harvest moons and all, and the feasting for hibernation.”
“Fine, but I better not catch any of you critter shifters eating my berries when I’m not looking,” said Daisy. “And keep your dang paws out of my honey!”
The thought of Daisy’s honey sent Bill’s cock twitching, and he hoped to God she couldn’t see his naked manhood getting harder. Luckily for him, Daisy was too focused on Liam to notice.
“We’ll be hard workers,” promised Liam.
“Well, I’ll expect you on the farms from dawn to dusk,” said Daisy with a frown. “And toss in Wednesday nights, and you’ve got yourself a deal.”
She thrust out her hand to shake Liam’s hand, even though his palms were covered in mud. Even through the mud, she could feel the hard calluses on his hands that marked him as a bear shifter.
“You won’t be disappointed,” said Liam.
“Yeah, well, get your mangy coats off my darn land,” said Daisy. “I’ll see you in two weeks for the harvest, and not a day sooner. Now get!” Daisy pointed up towards the woods.
The bear shifters didn’t have to be told twice. They started running across the mud, slipping and sliding against one another as they turned back into bears, their fur popping out from under their skin, their muscles and bones changing as they got into their shifts and started running up the hill and into the woods.
Daisy chuckled to herself. Those bear shifters had no idea what they were getting into...but neither did Daisy.
About The Author
I’m Sable Sylvan, and the only thing I love more than reading hot paranormal romances is writing down my fantasies and sharing them with readers like you. My heroes are strong alpha male shifters who can be grizzly and gruff at times...but when it comes to their mates, they turn into absolute teddy bears. The curvy heroines in my stories are strong, sassy women, and that’s why the bear shifter men who love them will do anything for their fated mates.
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