Ski Bear (Bear Shifter Paranormal Romance) (Rescue Bears Book 5) by Scarlett Grove Page A
Authors: Scarlett Grove
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her.
There were millions of results, including articles from many well-known magazines and newspapers. In that moment, she realized that she had been purposefully avoiding the subject altogether.
She thought back over the last several years of her life. When the subject of dating shifters had suddenly become a hot new trend, she’d refused to read a single article or blog post about the subject.
Maisie put her hand to her forehead, feeling like a fool. She’d been resisting the very thing she was involved with now. Her mom’s suggestion to join Mate.com had somehow broken her resistance at the very last moment.
But even if she hadn’t joined the dating site, she and Zach probably would have met on Fate Mountain. The whole train of thought left Maisie feeling dizzy and breathless. This whole fate business was new to her. It was all just a bit too much.
She stood up from her couch and went to the kitchen to pour herself a glass of Pinot. She brought her wine back into the living room but didn’t sit. She paced back and forth instead, thinking about what lay before her. She could let fate take her by the hand or she could try to intervene. The term fate meant something that was absolute. But did every fated mate couple end up happily ever after in the end? That couldn’t possibly be true.
She did a new search, asking Google if every fated mate couple ended up happily ever after. That’s when she started reading in earnest. Fated mates didn’t always end up happily ever after. Sometimes they came together just to have children and then parted again. Sometimes one of them died after experiencing the deepest most meaningful love of their lives. Sometimes the couples just couldn’t overcome their own personal dramas. Those were the most tragic.
With that understanding in mind, Maisie continued her study of shifters and fated mates. She learned a lot of things she couldn’t have possibly imagined.
For one thing, shifters could turn humans into shifters. She read the stories and statistics of tons of human women who’d been turned into shifters by their fated mates. The fated mate hormonal attraction was powerful and real.
When fated mates saw each other, they were both completely blown away and wanted nothing more than to make love. That seemed to be a universal experience. Of the couples who were able to overcome their initial personal issues, the great majority ended up living wonderful lives together. But sometimes the hormonal attraction would be so intense it became frightening for human women.
Overpowering animal need for sex and mating was not something that human women were accustomed to experiencing. That instinctive drive could feel disorienting and almost involuntary. That could lead to a great many problems for human women and male shifter relationships.
When Maisie read about that, she knew that what Zach was saying waiting was true. But she also understood that happily ever after wasn’t guaranteed. Maybe they had this animal attraction to each other now, but when they found out that they really weren’t compatible, they’d end up like the tragic couples who couldn’t get it together.
The next time she was going to see Zach, they were supposed to go skiing. Maisie had never been skiing before in her life. What in the world was she supposed to wear? She looked at the time and realized it was getting late. She had to be up at four in the morning to start baking and was going to be operating on little sleep as it was.
She forced herself up from the couch and went to her bed across the room in her studio apartment. She didn’t mind living in a studio; it was all she really needed. She’d lived in smaller places in Paris. But part of it just didn’t make her feel like a successful business owner. Someday, Maisie wanted a big house where she could raise a family.
As her head hit the pillow, she reminded herself that she needed to find an apprentice. She needed someone highly competent who she
There were millions of results, including articles from many well-known magazines and newspapers. In that moment, she realized that she had been purposefully avoiding the subject altogether.
She thought back over the last several years of her life. When the subject of dating shifters had suddenly become a hot new trend, she’d refused to read a single article or blog post about the subject.
Maisie put her hand to her forehead, feeling like a fool. She’d been resisting the very thing she was involved with now. Her mom’s suggestion to join Mate.com had somehow broken her resistance at the very last moment.
But even if she hadn’t joined the dating site, she and Zach probably would have met on Fate Mountain. The whole train of thought left Maisie feeling dizzy and breathless. This whole fate business was new to her. It was all just a bit too much.
She stood up from her couch and went to the kitchen to pour herself a glass of Pinot. She brought her wine back into the living room but didn’t sit. She paced back and forth instead, thinking about what lay before her. She could let fate take her by the hand or she could try to intervene. The term fate meant something that was absolute. But did every fated mate couple end up happily ever after in the end? That couldn’t possibly be true.
She did a new search, asking Google if every fated mate couple ended up happily ever after. That’s when she started reading in earnest. Fated mates didn’t always end up happily ever after. Sometimes they came together just to have children and then parted again. Sometimes one of them died after experiencing the deepest most meaningful love of their lives. Sometimes the couples just couldn’t overcome their own personal dramas. Those were the most tragic.
With that understanding in mind, Maisie continued her study of shifters and fated mates. She learned a lot of things she couldn’t have possibly imagined.
For one thing, shifters could turn humans into shifters. She read the stories and statistics of tons of human women who’d been turned into shifters by their fated mates. The fated mate hormonal attraction was powerful and real.
When fated mates saw each other, they were both completely blown away and wanted nothing more than to make love. That seemed to be a universal experience. Of the couples who were able to overcome their initial personal issues, the great majority ended up living wonderful lives together. But sometimes the hormonal attraction would be so intense it became frightening for human women.
Overpowering animal need for sex and mating was not something that human women were accustomed to experiencing. That instinctive drive could feel disorienting and almost involuntary. That could lead to a great many problems for human women and male shifter relationships.
When Maisie read about that, she knew that what Zach was saying waiting was true. But she also understood that happily ever after wasn’t guaranteed. Maybe they had this animal attraction to each other now, but when they found out that they really weren’t compatible, they’d end up like the tragic couples who couldn’t get it together.
The next time she was going to see Zach, they were supposed to go skiing. Maisie had never been skiing before in her life. What in the world was she supposed to wear? She looked at the time and realized it was getting late. She had to be up at four in the morning to start baking and was going to be operating on little sleep as it was.
She forced herself up from the couch and went to her bed across the room in her studio apartment. She didn’t mind living in a studio; it was all she really needed. She’d lived in smaller places in Paris. But part of it just didn’t make her feel like a successful business owner. Someday, Maisie wanted a big house where she could raise a family.
As her head hit the pillow, she reminded herself that she needed to find an apprentice. She needed someone highly competent who she
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