“I see,” Helen said. “OK. You’ve made it clear, now I think we should leave. You have made your choice.”
Lynn broke away from him and went to her mom, flinging her arms around her neck. “No, I haven’t made a choice. I don’t want a choice, I want my parents, and I want this life. Why can’t I have both?”
Helen kept her body tense, for a long, long moment, in which Adam wanted to grab hold of her and shake sense into her. But then she softened, and a sob erupted from her, and she clung to Lynn. “I only want what is best for you.”
“Then let me find out what that is.” Lynn lifted her head, and looked at her dad. “Want a hug, Dad?”
Donald faltered and then went to join his wife and daughter, holding them both tight. Russell edged toward Adam and said, “I think they need their privacy.”
“Let’s go outside and check on Pete,” Adam said, and left his mate alone with her parents, safe in the knowledge that she had made her decision and nothing would ever make her change her mind.
He would no longer have a bout of the cowboy bear blues; his life was changed forever. Was complete. Forever more.
Epilogue
“I never thought I’d be seen shearing an alpaca,” Adam said. He stood up, stretching his back, and Lynn guided the newly shorn Jelly, an alpaca who was of the sweetest temperament and had the softest fleece, out into the paddock with the rest of the newly shorn herd.
“Thank you,” Lynn said, kissing him on the cheek. “You know I’d do it.”
“I know, I don’t mind, you can do them all next year, while I hold the baby,” Adam said, placing his hand on her swollen belly. “Until then, I’m happy to help out.”
“I can’t believe I’ll be a grandma,” Helen said, as she worked with Donald to straighten out the fleece, before folding it up and placing it with the rest of the fleeces.
“I can’t believe you two took a week off work to help us do this,” Lynn said, hugging her mom, and then her dad. “Thank you.”
“It’s been fun,” Helen said, smiling, her face pink from where she had caught the sun yesterday. “It’s given us ideas about a retirement venture.”
“Retirement?” Lynn asked, stunned they would even say the word.
“Yes. We have been exploring the area, and we might buy a little farm of our own.”
“A farm? You and Dad?” Lynn asked incredulously.
“Yes. We want to be near you, when the baby comes. So we thought of selling some of the hotels, and hiring a manager to run the rest of them while we open up a little hotel here in Black Bear Ford. We could even cater exclusively to shifters,” Helen said.
“I think I need to sit down,” Lynn said.
“I think it’s a wonderful idea,” Adam said. “Jordan can spread the word in Bear Creek and Bear Bluff. A change of scenery does a bear good.”
“There, see, perfect,” Donald said.
“Perfect.” Lynn hugged her mom and dad. How things had changed in the last couple of months. Her parents were like different people, or more like the mom and dad she used to know. They had tried to protect her from Uncle Freddy and his beasts, and they had tried to guide her in what they thought was the right thing to do with her life, not realizing it was right for them, not for her.
Now, they had come to terms with her new life, and her beast of a man, who was big and strong, for sure, but the sweetest, most loyal man she could have ever wished for.
“OK. Come on, let’s go eat. My mom promised to feed us if we got all the work done, and we have. Teamwork,” Adam said.
“Teamwork,” Lynn said, and took his hand, taking one last look at her shorn alpacas, and feeling an incredible sense of achievement. She’d done it, she had followed her dreams and succeeded, with a little help from her family, and the Williams family too. The feud was dead and buried, and the ranch was joined with the Williams Homestead in a way that went beyond a bill of sale.
Lynn sighed, and rested her head on Adam’s broad shoulder. “Happy?” he asked.
“You betcha, cowboy.”
He laughed. “Me too, cowgirl.”
“That’s alpaca girl to you.”
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Biker Bear Billionaire (Bear Creek Clan Book Five)
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To Catch A Wolf
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Sleighed
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Wrapped
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Forbidden Bear
Secret Bear
Fated and Mated
Love at First Site
Her Scars To Bear
Her Choice To Bear
Her Russian Bear
Who’s the Daddy?
One Bear and a Baby
Her Bear and a Baby
Second Chance Bear and a Baby
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His Bear’s Necessity
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When Bears Collide
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Blood Of The Dragon
Heart Of The Dragon
Love Of The Dragon
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