The Hawk and Her LumBEARjack: BBW Paranormal Bear Shifter Romance by Zoe Chant

of his tongue, the musk of her arousal growing stronger until it inflamed his senses. He was so hard that he ached with need.
    As she quivered on the edge, he lowered her hips back to the bed, and licked and nibbled his way up from her soft mound, across her stomach and breasts. Felicity rubbed against him, her breathing rapid. Her head was raised so she could watch his advance with bright eyes. As soon as she could reach him, she slid a hand between his legs and grasped his cock firmly. This time, he reveled in the firm grip of her fingers around his hard shaft, the brush of her thumb across the head.
    Soon , he thought. Soon .
    Hunter growled playfully and nipped her lightly on the neck and shoulders. She loved that, throwing her head back to expose her throat and the soft skin where her collarbones dipped toward her breasts. All the while she kept her hand firmly wrapped around him, guiding him lower, until he pressed into the wet, waiting heat of her entrance.
    Her eyelids fluttered, eyes half-closed in pleasure, and her lips parted as she gasped his name.
    This ... this was what he'd been waiting for all week. Hunter pounded into her and she wrapped her legs around his waist, moaning in ecstasy. With every stroke, they both climbed to new plateaus of glorious sensation.
    "My mate," he gasped. "Mine!"
    "Yours," she panted, twining her fingers in his hair. " Hunter —"
    He felt her tighten around him as she rose toward climax, heightening his own pleasure until he could hardly bear it. Then her body arched and she cried out, and he came with a roar that seemed to shake the walls of the cabin. Hunter collapsed over her slowly, relaxing, shaking with a pleasure so intense it hardly seemed real.
    He propped himself on his elbows above and watched her lovely face as she came back, slowly, from that private world of delight where she too had gone. Her eyes fluttered open and she smiled up at him.
    "It's good to be back," she whispered, and kissed him softly on the lips.
    He was still tangled up in his clothes—his jeans down around his ankles, his shirt half off. Hunter sat up and finished stripping them off.
    Felicity wriggled closer and wrapped an arm around his waist. "Don't go anywhere," she murmured sleepily.
    "Not planning on it." Not ever.
    As he drifted off, wrapped up in his mate's arms, Hunter realized he hadn't thought about Christine all week. Not even once. And not ever again, he hoped.
    Christine was the past. Felicity was his future.

9. Felicity
    They made love again in the morning, gentle and lazy this time, and lounged around in blissed-out pleasure until Felicity decided that home-cooked bacon and eggs wasn't what she was in the mood for.
    "Hey," she said, prodding Hunter's bare shoulder until he blearily raised his head. "You said there's a town near here, right?"
    "Falls Creek," he agreed. "You want to go there?" His tone implied Why?
    "I'd like to see it," she said. "As nice as it is to stay in, I don't know if I want to stay in the cabin the whole weekend. Are there restaurants there?"
    "Just two," Hunter said. He yawned and stretched lazily—very much like a bear, giving Felicity a tantalizing view of his broad chest and muscular shoulders. "There's a diner and the Falls Creek Pub. The diner makes a good lumberjack's special, though it's probably not as good as what you can get back home."
    "Stop it, you." She poked him again. "Don't tell me I wouldn't like it 'til I try it, okay? I haven't lived in the city all my life; I grew up in a small town. As nice as it is to have five breakfast places within walking distance of my apartment, I remember the charms of having one restaurant where the waitresses all just ask if you want your usual. I'd like to see your little town, Hunter."
    Hunter raised his eyebrows. "And are you planning on walking around my town stark naked?"
    "Oh ... crap." Usually this wasn't something she had to worry about. She stayed in her hawk form all weekend and then changed back into