Bear With Me

by Vanessa Devereaux

  “You should think about getting him a dog of his own.”

  “You think it would help?”

  “Sure. I know a lot of kids who get more confident when they have a pet around. Might just be want he needs.”

  “Some days I wake up and think what if my child’s like every other child today. It would be a huge worry off my shoulders….sorry… that sounded so selfish of me. I doubt Sam likes being the way he is. I guess he knows he’s not like other kids and has to take all the stares and the shoves at school. I know that can’t be easy.”

  Bear put his hand on top of hers. “It’s not selfish because you want what’s best for your child. Every mother does.”

  “I do and you know what I hated most about today, besides him not being around?”

  “What was that?”

  “That he didn’t need me. That Lilly didn’t call me to say come and pick him up because he misses you and wants to come home. I feel like maybe I need him more than he needs me.”

  A tear slipped down her cheek so Bear quickly swished it away.

  “Something else all mothers think.”

  “One day I’ll be all alone.”

  “I don’t think so, I really don’t think so.”

  If he had any say in the matter he’d like to stick around in her life for as long as she’d put up with him. That made him think of the future and possibly a future they’d share. If they had one he had to sit her down and have the chat. The one that told her he wasn’t like other guys she’d known.

  I’m sometimes a bear.

  Hope she loves bears.

  Chapter Eleven

  “Are you still planning to do something to me that people on the Canadian border will hear?” she asked him as he crept up behind her and wrapped his arms around her, pulling her in so close and tight that she felt his erection stabbing her butt with some urgency.

  “I sure am.”

  “And you have condoms?”

  “They are ready and waiting,” he said, kissing the nape of her neck with light little kisses that were almost ticklish. His hands covered both her breasts and he squeezed while kissing the side of her neck.

  “How about we get you out of these clothes so I can lavish you with caresses and kisses?”

  His voice sounded deep and sexy. He unbuttoned the front of her dress, each tiny button pushed through the opening before he pulled the sides apart. He kissed her neck while pulling the dress off her shoulders. Bear’s lips were warm and moist. The dress fell to the ground, tickling her toes as it did. He put his hands on her hips, running his tongue over her shoulder blades, moving her body so it seemed like they were doing a sexy dance together.

  “You are so beautiful,” he said close to her ear. He nibbled on its lobe while slipping his hands inside her panties and pulling them down over her butt. She wiggled and they danced together once again.

  Next he unclasped her bra and let it slip off her arms.

  “You like dirty talk?” he asked.

  “Depends on who’s speaking.”

  He laughed and kissed her neck again. Bear placed both his hands over her breasts, massaged them, and then pulled his fingers over them until he had her nipples between his thumb and index finger in what was a tight grip.

  “I was going to say you have lovely tits.”

  He wrapped his arms tightly around her, the roughness of his jeans scraping over her bare butt.

  She wanted to freeze this moment in time, to remember herself in his arms and his mouth on the side of her cheek. Hannah closed her eyes, feeling his hands move over her navel and down into her pubic area. He buried his fingers deep within her curls, massaging his way over her pubic bone, getting closer to her clit, and then his long middle finger moved downward over her folds and nudged at the entrance of her channel.

  Bear nipped at her neck, letting his teeth and tongue drag over her skin as he plunged his finger farther inside. She spread her thighs, allowing him as much access as he demanded.

  She became more excited as he twirled his finger around. Glancing down she saw her own juices glistening upon his knuckles where they’d slid from her body. She took a deep breath, bracing herself for what would happen in a few seconds. She had that old familiar feeling of being at the pinnacle of her climax.

  Her heart beat faster, blood rushed to her pussy and nipples, and she held his arm that was still wrapped tightly around her as she came.

  He nuzzled his nose against her.

  “You want me inside you?” he asked.

  Even if she hadn’t wanted that there was no way she could resist him tonight.

  “Oh yeah, I want you all right.”

  He allowed her to turn around. They stood staring at one another until she took the first step to get him naked. She lifted his sweatshirt up. Bear raised his arms and allowed her to pull it off his body. Next she unbuckled his belt and popped open the button on his jeans, not taking her eyes off him, watching his reaction as she slipped down the fly.

  “Just one second,” he said. Reaching into the back pocket, he pulled out about five condoms.

  “Are you going to use all those in one evening?” she asked him.

  “Guess that’s up to you,” he said as she slid the jeans and boxers down his legs.

  “Lie on the bed and open wide,” said Bear.

  That had almost come across as a demand and it turned her on to no end.

  She sat on the edge of the bed and then slid her backside up the bed and separated her legs, observing him sheathing himself.

  “Hold on tight and don’t wake everyone up in town,” he said, getting onto the bed, running his hands up her thighs and then with one flick of his hips his cock was inside her.

  Her pussy suddenly felt unused and tiny again. Almost like being a virgin. She tried to relax her muscles, allowing him to penetrate her deeper.

  “You are tense so just let go,” he whispered.

  He began a steady thrust, opening up her pussy more and making its walls finally relax.

  It was already beginning to feel good. How could she have gone this long without being with a man? She knew why. She hadn’t found anyone she’d want to sleep with. Now she had, and right this second he was gliding up and down between her legs.

  She raised them up, crossed them over his butt, allowing a deeper thrust. Hannah closed her eyes, working her body with his, up and down, up and down. Her pussy pulled and tingled. Then he stopped and she opened her eyes. She hadn’t felt him come yet so why…

  Shit, had he put a vibrator inside her without her knowing. Nope, it was his cock slapping up and down, going wildly from side to side. Hannah held on tight not believing what was happening and how this felt. She drew her nails along the skin on his back, hoping she wasn’t hurting him.

  Without warning she came, cried out and yes, others in town might have hurt her. Her addiction had been fed again. She pulled him down.

  “Fuck me again,” she said as Bear laughed.

  “Don’t say I didn’t warned you, baby.”

  He began thrusting again. She raised her butt off the quilt, meeting his downward motion quickly, realizing the climaxes weren’t separate now but all one long pleasurable ride.

  “Bear, you, oh god, more, more fucking me like that….”

  ****

  He’d only been kidding when he said she’d cry out, but Hannah was a noisy one. She wiggled her bare ass at him with her palms flat on the bed. He almost dropped the condom on the floor in his urgency to get it on his dick. He was watching that butt, getting the scent of their prior sexual act and it was making his cock beat up and down. He held it steady, attempting one more time to get the damn rubber onto the end of his shaft.

  He hated these things. Hannah wasn’t the first human he’d had sex with. In fact, he’d briefly dated two others while he’d been at medical school and doing his residency. This was the biggest drawback. He finally got it all the way up and almost roared as he headed her way. He gave her ass one big slap and
then parted those cheeks, spotted the cream forming on her opening, and slid into her pussy.

  Bear held her hips, thrusting hard like she wanted him to. She was almost like a virgin, hot and tight. He closed his eyes, stopped thrusting, and vibrated his cock while hearing her getting vocal again.

  “Shit, that’s so good. Geez, I’m, wow, fuck me.”

  She was talking gibberish. He smiled as he began thrusting again, slapping her hips, and making her pussy tighten around his cock.

  Bear wanted to give her more, but he was close to his own release.

  He reached downward and found her nipples. He squeezed them, while loving the sound their bodies made as they slapped against one another. Bear lifted his chin upward, feeling his eyes change color and his muscles pull as he enjoyed his own climax. She held him tight, milking his cock for everything that was left within it.

  “I’m never going without sex again,” she said.

  “I’m so glad to hear that,” said Bear.

  “How about I go make us some popcorn and something to drink and then we can resume our evening.”

  He liked the sound of that. He pulled out of her, gave her butt a playful slap, and then she headed out to the kitchen. He sat on the bed, flopped back, and tried to get his breath back as his cell phone rang. He wanted to ignore it, but as he was the only doctor at the hospital at the moment he was always on call.

  Bear saw that it was Christopher Renner’s name on his caller ID. He hoped nothing wasn’t wrong with Sam and that he’d opted to call him instead of Hannah or that there was some medical emergency.

  “Hi, Christopher, what’s up?”

  “Hope I haven’t disturbed you and Hannah?”

  “Nope, that’s fine. We’re taking a rest and she’s making us some popcorn.”

  “Perfect because it’s about Sam.”

  Bear went cold and his heart beat even faster than it had post sex. “Is he sick or hurt?”

  “No, nothing like that. In fact, he and Kaitlin have built an indoor fort using our dining room table and a sheet, and Barney’s in there too.”

  Bear smiled. “So what is it?”

  “Do you know much about Hannah?”

  “Enough I guess, but I’m getting to know her more and more each day, why?”

  “Could she be a shifter?”

  Bear flopped onto his back again not believing he’d actually heard Christopher ask him that.

  “What?” he asked just in case he’d imagined it.

  “Could Hannah be a shifter?”

  “No, she smells all human and …”

  He didn’t want to go into any more detail about how he knew she wasn’t a shifter woman, like the fact that she had hair on her pubic region and an external clit.

  “It’s getting serious then?”

  Christopher obviously knew why Bear had stopped in mid-sentence.

  “How about half shifter, half human?” asked Christopher.

  “Christopher have you been drinking or what, just get to the point.”

  Bear kept his eye on the door for any sign or noise that indicated Hannah was returning to the bedroom.

  “Sam shows some shifter qualities. He can read my mind, I can read his. It’s how we’ve been communicating all afternoon while I put together the fort. In his head, his conversation is just like any other normal kid’s.”

  So it hadn’t been Bear’s imagination. He too had been able to communicate with Sam through telepathy. .

  “Hannah is not a shifter which means if Sam is then…”

  “He gets it from his father.”

  “You know anything about him?” asked Christopher.

  “No, just that he was from around here and she tried to find him, but he seemed to have disappeared into thin air,” said Bear

  Bear didn’t want to betray Hannah and mention the one night stand bit.

  “You know where she met him?” asked Christopher.

  “She mentioned Whitefish.”

  “Then it’s possible it’s a guy from our group. Definitely bear shifter I’d say. Any likely candidates, someone who just up and left?” asked Christopher.

  “I wouldn’t know because I’ve not been around here for a long time.”

  “Yep forgot. I’ll give Aiden a call and we’ll brainstorm and try to narrow it down.”

  “What should I tell Hannah?” Bear asked.

  “Nothing until we can figure this out, but in the meantime you could pump her for more information about the guy who fathered Sam. It might help us narrow it down to the most likely suspects.”

  “Okay, but this is strictly between you, me, and Aiden for now, okay?”

  “I haven’t even told Lilly.”

  Bear heard floorboards squeaking and knew Hannah was heading back.

  “I have to go but call me if you find out anything.”

  Bear quickly hit the end call button and put the phone down.

  “Thought I heard that ring and you talking to someone.”

  Shit, now he felt guilty that he was going to have to keep something from her.

  “Yeah, it was my assistant wanting to know about a patient.”

  Feeling even guiltier.

  She lay down beside him and put the bowl of popcorn between them.

  He had to think of some subtle way to get the information about Sam’s father.

  “Sam’s tall for his age.”

  “I guess he is.”

  “Was his father tall?”

  “About six foot.”

  “Do you think he looks like him?”

  “A little. Although I can see a lot of my side of the family in him too.”

  Damn, this wasn’t getting him very far.

  “Didn’t you say he was from Kalispell?”

  “That’s what he said.”

  “What did he do for a living?”

  “Bear, why all the questions, and the sudden interest in the guy who got me pregnant?”

  Shit, he’d set himself up for this. He was pathetic at being subtle.

  “Suddenly jealous I guess,” he said, pulling her on top of him.

  “Jealous, eh? Nothing to be jealous about because I’m all yours.”

  She eased her body up on his. Without asking, she reached over for a condom.

  He turned hard thinking about having sex with her again. She sheathed him, doing it so much more efficiently than he ever could. He reached down between her legs, thinking he’d have to do some work to get her wet, excited, and ready to accommodate him, but she was hot to the touch and moist. For good measure he slid his finger inside her.

  Hannah leaned over and kissed him. Had she been with a shifter before? If she had then the vibrating cock wouldn’t have taken her by surprise. Unless of course Sam’s father hadn’t used it on her.

  He was about to ask her but thought it inappropriate. Damn, he wished he knew who it was. She lifted her butt, spread her thighs, and impaled herself down on him. It hadn’t been a lie, he was jealous of the fellow shifter she’d been with.

  She began moving up and down his cock, pulling her feet into the bed, riding him hard. This wasn’t his favorite position and he had to take control. She laughed as he lifted her, making sure his cock didn’t slip out, and flipped her so they both lay on their sides, him pounding into her so hard she grabbed the bed sheet.

  He bit her neck, ran his tongue over her skin, tasting her perfume and scent.

  “Fuck me harder.”

  “With pleasure, princess.”

  Chapter Twelve

  Bear had changed. And not just because they’d now had sex. Had she been too needy in the fuck me hard department? She had warned him. She glanced over at him as he drove toward Christopher and Lilly’s house. He’d offered to go pick Sam up with her.

  He hadn’t said much since they’d gotten in his car. Did he have regrets about what they’d done? She’d thought she might, but strangely enough she didn’t. She’d done the right thing because this guy was special and not like the rest
of the guys who were the love and leave them type. And yes, that included Sam’s father who for some strange reason, Bear was suddenly very interested in. Could she believe it was down to jealousy? Maybe. However, he’d even asked, very casually she might add, about him again while they’d eaten breakfast.

  Obviously realizing she was looking at him, he finally turned her way. He still didn’t say anything, but instead reached over and put his hand on her knee and squeezed it.

  “You’ve been really quiet. Everything okay?” she asked. Dumb question because men usually kept things to themselves. “You haven’t said much since you woke up.”

  In fact, since he’d taken the call last night.

  Old girlfriend wanting to get back with him maybe? Perhaps he didn’t have the heart to tell Hannah. She swallowed. She hadn’t known this guy long, but he’d already etched a place on her heart. His kindness to Sam and his patience with her son had truly won her over.

  “I guess I’m tired that’s all. The hospital needs to hire more doctors because I’m carrying most of the workload.”

  “That shouldn’t be hard, should it? There are plenty of doctors looking for work I would think.”

  “Yeah, but Charlotte’s very picky. They have to meet certain requirements.”

  Hannah nodded as Bear pulled up the driveway of the Renner’s place.

  “I hope Sam’s missed me,” she said, getting out of the car and walking beside Bear, feeling more dwarfed by his size and height than ever before.

  He rang the doorbell, setting off the frenzied barking of Barney. Christopher opened the door to them.

  “Come in. Sam and Kaitlin are just having some lunch in the kitchen.”

  She followed Christopher while Bear tagged along behind her.

  Both children along with Lilly sat at the island in the middle of the kitchen eating what looked like mac and cheese.

  “Hi, Hannah, Bear,” said Lilly.

  Sam looked over at Hannah. “Momma.”

  She smiled and walked over to him, kissing the top of his head. “You have fun?”

  He nodded and then blinked rapidly. She couldn’t help but notice Bear and Christopher exchanging glances. Something was up and maybe it had to do with Sam. Maybe Bear as a doctor knew something, didn’t want to alarm her, and hence the silence. Panic washed over her. Maybe they’d figured out what was really wrong with her son and it was bad news.