by Sy Walker
Jacob was relaxing in his house after a long day at work. He tilted his head from side to side, letting his neck crack. In college, he was an all-American quarterback. Now that he was twenty-seven and in the ‘real world’, he was a security guard at a prison. He still got to tackle people, and sometimes he even got to use his gun.
But he was a good boy, deep down. He was tall and muscular, but not the sort of guy who beat up people who were weaker than him for laughs. That was part of how he got the job. The other part of why, he suspected, was because he turned into a bear when he was angry.
Nothing would make a convict shit his pants quite like a guy who was a man one second and a growling, snarling bear the next.
He did his best to keep this side of him in check, of course. Aside from scaring people who needed to be scared, Jacob had inadvertently scared away a lot of women in his life. He was hoping to do better on that front. That was why he’d signed up for ComeShift, even though he thought it was pretty ridiculous. His friend Alvin told him that it would be a good way for him to meet chicks, and he was not going to argue with Alvin, the guy who had a sexy new chick on his arm every week.
Jacob would settle for just one. Preferably the one.
Reclining into his sofa at home, he looked at his phone, flicking through several of his apps and notifications to see if there was anything to entertain him. There was a notification from ComeShift. He clicked it open and read it over. It was from a girl with the username ‘SabbyCat.’ That intrigued him. He wondered, at first, if she was a cat shifter or something, but her profile revealed that she was one hundred percent human.
She was also one hundred percent hotty. He wanted to get lost in her voluptuousness, if she would let him.
JacoBear89: Yay, someone else in Providence! There’s a restaurant with a bar in town called Smokey’s. Want to meet there in about an hour?
She mercifully did not take very long to respond.
SabbyCat93: I’ll see you there, Mr. Bear. ;)
The good news was that he now had plans with a gorgeous girl for the night. The bad news was that meant he couldn’t relax on his sofa anymore. With a smirk, he stood up and stretched. “Lazy ass,” he said before going into his bedroom to put on a more decent shirt for the date. And maybe comb his hair a little.
Sabrina beamed at her phone. Handsome bear boy had said yes. This night wasn’t going to be a complete waste after all. She went into her bedroom and changed out of the jeans and blouse she’d been wearing. She needed to wear something that was alluring and showed off more of her body.
She decided on a red dress, and added a fun, red hairclip to her head, keeping her bangs off of her face. It had a little red feather on it. She felt like she belonged in a movie set in the 1920s. Hopefully Jacob would find her as pretty as she felt.
The place that he’d chosen was just up the road from her apartment building. There wasn’t any reason she couldn’t walk to it, especially on a nice evening like it was. She grabbed a red purse that would match her outfit well enough and left her apartment. She used the phone on her GPS to make sure she knew where she was going.
Smokey’s did not look like much from the outside, but it was full of loud, catchy music when Sabrina went inside. It seemed like it was an 80s ‘best of’ kind of night. She took a stool at the bar and did her best to reserve the seat next to her for the man who was supposed to meet her there.
Hopefully, he would look exactly like he did in his pictures. Though probably not too exactly like the picture of him in his football jersey. She did not want to be dating a boy, even if he was a bear. She wanted a bear, not a cub.
“Is this seat taken?” a low, deep voice asked from behind her.
“Uh, actually…” She jumped up off her stool and was about to try and prevent this stranger from taking a seat beside her when she recognized his face. She instantly smiled at him. “Jacob?”
He grinned back at her. “SabbyCat?”
She laughed and sat back down on her stool, feeling silly for becoming so territorial. “Sabrina is fine,” she said, smirking at him.
Jacob sat in the stool next to her, now that she wasn’t attempting to block him off. “It’s nice to meet you. Thank you for coming here. It’s not the best place, but it’s better than a lot of the dumpy bars around town.”
“It seems pretty good to me,” she replied. “Thank you for meeting me. It’s nice to meet you, too.”
The bartender came to their end of the bar and took their drink orders. She ordered a mojito and he ordered a dark lager. When the bartender went away again, they were finally able to have more of a conversation.
“So, what brought you to the ComeShift app?” he asked her curiously. Most girls who used it happened to have a particular kink when it came to werewolves, werebears, etcetera. If they weren’t weres themselves.
Sabrina smiled bashfully at that. It wasn’t the sort of thing that she normally talked about, especially not in public like this. “I’ve used it in the past and it seemed like a fun way to meet people.” She wasn’t going to bring up her ex on their date. For all she knew, Jacob had been able to pick up the scent of Victor already anyway. “You?”
He chuckled a bit, and gratefully took a swig from his glass of lager as soon as it was brought to him. It embarrassed him, kind of, how much he felt like he needed the app. In this day and age, it was not a big deal to utilize dating websites and stuff like that, but Jacob wished that he was just one of those people who could grab someone’s attention all on his own. “My friend got me into it, actually,” he answered. “He’d had success with it and thought it would be good for me, too.”
She leaned an arm against the bar, looking him in the eyes. She couldn’t deny that she was thinking about having sex with him later, but she was also realizing just how sweet he was, and just how kind his eyes were. Maybe she had picked out someone who was going to be worth more than a one night stand.
But she didn’t want to get ahead of herself. After all, this was just meant to be a bit of rebound fun. Nothing serious.
“And how has it been so far, do you think?” Sabrina innocently took a sip of her mojito, batting her dark lashes at him.
“I think it’s been pretty good so far,” Jacob said. “Especially this time.”
He had lucked out and managed to meet a beautiful date for the evening. He just hoped that it would go well and he would not scare her off.
CHAPTER TWO
More Than Expected
After chatting over a few more drinks, Sabrina had the great idea that they should go check out a nearby karaoke place. “It’ll be fun!” she promised him. “You don’t have to sing if you don’t want to. I hardly ever do. It’s embarrassing.”
Jacob smiled at her. She was hard to say no to, especially after several drinks.
She led him out of Smokey’s by the hand; a familiarity that she would not have used if she had been completely sober. The karaoke place turned out to be a dance club that also had a stage. A large, horribly outdated TV set sat on a table there, along with a big projection screen so that everyone else could see the cheesy, Asian-styled graphics that were displayed there for each song.
Who didn’t want to sing Don’t Go Breaking My Heart with scenes of beaches and waterfalls behind them?
Well, for starters, Jacob didn’t. He was plenty amused just watching others embarrass themselves. And he noticed that Sabrina continued to touch him and hold his hand while they stood there on the dancefloor together.
He felt kind of guilty, actually. Would she be acting this comfortable around him if she hadn’t had quite so many mojitos? Jacob had to wonder.
Finally, when a classic song by Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark came on, Sabrina turned towards him. She’d been doing her best to resist it, but now she just had to dance with him. She loved this song too much not to.
“Please dance with me?” she asked him, taking his hands and placing them on her waist before he could even answer. “I love this song.
”
Jacob smiled at her, gazing into her blue eyes. Besides being gorgeous, she was awfully cute. “How do you even know this song?” he asked with a laugh as they started to slow dance to the song. “You were born in the 90s.”
She looked at him quizzically. “But everyone loves Pretty in Pink, right?”
“You have a point,” he said with a shrug.
As she leaned into him with her head against his chest, Sabrina realized that it had been easy for her to forget that Jacob was not just some guy. Within him, there was a beast. She was surprised that he did not act more like the werebear she’d been expecting… She hadn’t come out to be with just some guy. She joined ComeShift to be with a fiery, lustful shifter!
But she couldn’t deny that he was sweet, and handsome. His body felt like it was made of muscle. She closed her eyes and took in his scent, imagining what he looked like while changing in the locker room.
“Sabrina?” he asked. “Sabrina?”
She realized that she’d been lost in her thoughts for so long that the song had ended and it was on to something new. They were slow dancing to an up-tempo song now. Her thoughts made her feel slightly dizzy. Actually, she knew that it wasn’t just her thoughts.
“Do you want to come back to my place?” she asked him. “It’s just up the street.”
It felt sudden to him, but he supposed that this invitation was what she had been planning all along. He had to admit that some quiet time alone would be good, now that they’d gotten to know each other a little better. The music was starting to give him a headache anyway. It was louder for him that it was for her.
“Sure,” he said. “Good idea.”
Once they’d climbed the stairs and gone into Sabrina’s apartment, she tossed her keys onto the kitchen counter and kicked off her heels. “Can I get you something to drink?” she asked Jacob with a smile. “You probably don’t want more alcohol, but I do have vodka and Jack Daniels.”
He laughed shortly. “No no, that’s okay. Um, do you have juice?”
She grinned at him. “What do you think the vodka’s for? I’ve got grape juice, orange juice and apple juice.”
“Ooh, you’re a health nut.” Jacob sat on the couch in her living room, keeping his attention on her as she walked around the kitchen a few feet away. “Grape juice, please. I feel like I haven’t had that since I was in elementary school.”
Sabrina took out the jug of grape juice and poured him a generous amount into a tall glass. She poured herself some as well and carefully brought the glasses over to the living room, sitting beside him before handing one glass to him. “And I didn’t even spill!”
Jacob put his glass down on the coffee table directly in front of them and applauded. She widened her eyes and let out a laugh. She hadn’t expected actual applause. She nodded her head in a slight bow to him. “Thank you, thank you. I’m here all night. And hopefully you are, too.”
She somehow managed to seductively sip her grape juice.
“I haven’t been this turned on since second grade,” he quipped.
Sabrina threw her head back and cackled. He took a sip and then both glasses were placed on the table and they were looking into each other’s eyes. She felt like she’d made a mistake back there in the karaoke club. He was not just some guy. He was just a nice guy. She deserved a nice guy, after all of Victor’s bullshit.
She moved over and got into his lap, straddling him. The big bruiser moved with her as if he’d been fully aware that she was going to do that. He wrapped his arms around her, pulling her even closer to him. He met her lips before she was completely ready, and soon he was forcing his tongue into her mouth.
Moaning, she brought her hands up to his face and stroked his cheeks with her fingertips. She’d thought that he looked cuddly before, but now she knew that cuddly could definitely be hot.
After several moments of making out on the couch, Jacob scooped Sabrina up in his arms and carried her to her bedroom. She could only assume that he found it based on his keen sense of scent, because it was off down the long hallway next to the entryway and she hadn’t shown him around yet. They had not gotten that far, but already he wanted her in the bedroom.
He did not carefully place her on the bed but instead set her down next to it. “Take your clothes off,” he said, his voice husky from the lust he now felt. This was the sort of thing she had been expecting. And the fact that it came from such a good ol’ boy made it even better.
Sabrina enlisted her help in taking off her red dress, and then she quickly slipped out of her panties and bra. He admired her as she stood there naked before him, then he fumbled with his fly and pulled his pants off. It was clear that he was going to keep his shirt on when he turned her around and bent her over onto the bed.
Jacob pushed his cock into her from behind. “Oh my god!” he shouted with a dark chuckle. “You’re so tight.”
She laughed a bit, gasping as she felt the sheer size of his member inside her. “Do you like that?”
“Yes,” he said, slapping her ass. “I’m gonna pound your pussy.” He started thrusting. It was all that she could do to not simply fall forward all the way and lie flat on the bed. She held herself up on her elbows, biting her lip and moaning as he moved within her, stretching her.
Leaning forward, Jacob kissed her back and she smiled. There was something so amusing about him acting tender while also threatening to pound her and slap her…
“Ohhh,” he moaned. She could tell that he enjoyed this position. It made her grow even wetter to know just how horny she was making him. Suddenly, he grabbed her and spun her over so she was on her back. She slammed onto the bed again, grateful that the mattress was soft so she didn’t injure her back or something.
“Fuck yeah,” he said, placing his hands on her boobs and squeezing as he continued thrusting once he’d mounted her. He lowered his head down and sucked her left breast, biting her nipple until she was sure it must be bruised and bloody. “Is this what you like, baby?”
She nodded, looking up at him, completely under his spell. “Mmmhmm.”
“Yeah,” he growled. “You’re a little slut, aren’t you?”
He slapped her side and reached his hand down, gliding his fingers against her clit. Sabrina’s eyes widened at the sensation. “I’m whatever you want me to be,” she told him, hissing her words out through her teeth as she could feel the euphoria building up inside of her. She was ready to burst, but she didn’t want to until he did.
Just then, he placed his other hand over her mouth and started thrusting and rubbing her clit at the same time, starting to move rhythmically. Sabrina was not going to be able to wait for Jacob to come at this rate. “Oh goddd!!” she moaned against his hand.
He thrust himself so deep inside her that suddenly she was seeing stars as she came. He moved his hands to her hands and held onto them tightly as he came along with her, releasing his seed deep within her.
“JACOB!” she bellowed, unable to keep quiet.
They stayed together, him on top of her and her below him, for a few minutes while their pulses slowly went back down to normal. Then he smiled at her. “I hope I wasn’t too rough,” he said.
Her chest was still heaving, but she was starting to calm down as she looked at him. “No rougher than I was hoping for,” she said with a wink.
With a soft laugh, he slipped out of her and went to the bathroom, coming back a moment later with some toilet paper so she could clean herself up a little.
As soon as they were cleaned, Jacob led Sabrina back out to her kitchen as if he owned the place now. She wondered if that was how it was supposed to be with werebears. She was so used to strict Wolves that she was not aware of what the differences could be. He went back to the coffee table and brought the grape juice into the kitchen so that they could keep drinking it at the table together.
Sabrina looked at the clock. “It’s two in the morning already?” she asked, shocked.
“So it is,” he said wit
h a smirk. “You don’t work on Saturdays, do you?”
She shook her head. Fortunately, she was an admin assistant at an office, not the kind of worker that was forced to work an ungodly schedule. “You?”
“Only if I want to,” he said. “And I never want to.”
Looking at him over the glass as she took a sip, she wondered what he was like to date continually. Now that they’d made love, she realized that the idea of having Jacob Priestly as her boyfriend was not a totally bad one.
“Will you be here in the morning?” she asked him in a quiet, slightly hopeful voice. “I may have started this out as a kind of one night stand thing, but now…”
“Shh,” he said, shaking his shaggy head at her and smiling. He was so fucking adorable to her again. She was afraid that she might love him if she wasn’t careful. “I promise I will be here in the morning. And every other morning, if you want.”
Oh, she wanted. She really wanted.
CHAPTER THREE
Silly Old Bear
Sure enough, Jacob was true to his word the following morning. Sabrina slowly and lazily opened her eyes at ten a.m., a reasonable time to get up on a Saturday, and saw that he was still in bed beside her. His eyes were closed, but when she quietly yawned, he smiled.
“Good morning,” he said. His brown eyes opened and he fixed them on her, still smiling sleepily.
“Hi,” she said back, stretching a little. “Now that I know I’ve still got you, what do you want to do today?”
Jacob shrugged. “What were you thinking of doing?”
Sabrina appreciated that he was not as bossy as her ex. He was much more laid-back, and thankfully was receptive to her ideas. She thought over what she most felt like doing on this, their second day together. “Art museum?” she suggested.