Free Bearliest Catch by Bianca D'Arc Page B

the while, she kept up her subtle torture, squirming
against him, rubbing their bodies slowly together.
    She kissed him again, the passion rising like
the tide.
    Within moments, she was pushing at his
clothing, nearly mindless with the need that had come up so
suddenly, it nearly stole her breath. The tempest was upon her, and
all she could think of was getting him naked.
    Thankfully, he was having a lot more luck
undressing her than she was with him. Within moments, she was bare,
but he was still clothed. It wasn’t fair!
    A keening sound startled her, and she
realized it had come from her. The frenzy was building, and she
needed him to be naked. And then, she needed him to be inside her.
Simple as that.
    Andrew seemed to know what she needed. While
she fretted, he was busy undoing buttons and zippers, and tearing
fabric when necessary to get them both naked. She felt more and
more skin against hers, which made her smile, calming some of the
frenzy down to a more manageable state.
    They lay there for just a few minutes, side
by side, skin to skin, kissing as the night deepened and a soft
rain began to fall.
    “Do you want to go inside?” Andrew asked at
one point, not rushing things, treating her like she was precious
to him, charming her with his care. “Are you cold?”
    She had to laugh. Looking into his eyes, she
let one eyebrow lift. “Dude.” Some of her Southern Californian
roots were showing through in her words. “I live in the ocean. I
love water, and I don’t chill easily, even in human form.” Then she
thought about his comfort. “But if you want to take this
inside…”
    She lifted away but his strong arms hauled
her back. “Not on your life,” he protested, laughing with her.
“I’ve got you exactly where I want you. A little rain won’t hurt
either of us. We’re shifters. We’re strong. And we like nature, in
all her moods. Right?”
    “I couldn’t agree more. Now, where were we?”
She straddled him again, bringing her core into shockingly fast
contact with his hard length. “Oh, yeah. We were about to get down
to business.”
    “I like the sound of that,” he enthused,
lifting his big hands to cup her breasts.
    He knew just how to rub her nipples to make
her squirm in delight, and his hands—his whole body—was so warm. He
was like a furnace. A living, breathing, hard-bodied furnace.
Yum.
    She’d been primed for him from their first
kiss on the boat. The talking and dinner had only made her want him
more. She’d been starved for this kind of male companionship, being
out at sea for so long, and she didn’t want to wait another minute
to find out what it would be like to be with a bear shifter. Her bear shifter.
    Jetty hadn’t lusted after any other sort of
shifter before, though she had run across a few in passing, years
ago. They’d been average. Like her, only with different animal
spirits. But this one…this big badass bear…had intrigued her from
the moment she’d first seen him.
    Now that she had him in her clutches, she
wasn’t about to let him get away. Although, it was sort of
laughable to think that she could overpower him. Even with all the
strength of her mer half, he was still male and still a whole lot
stronger than her physically. She knew, though, deep down in her
heart, that he’d never use that incredible strength against
her.
    If anything, he would use it to protect her.
He didn’t fully realize yet how little she actually needed protecting, but it was a sweet thought.
    As the soft rain coated their bodies in cool
moisture that did nothing to cool their ardor, she adjusted her
position until she felt the tip of him at her entrance. There was
no need for barriers between them. They were shifters. They were in
rhythm with the ocean, in tune with the woodlands. They didn’t
carry human diseases, and she knew when she was entering a fertile
time. She still had a ways to go for that, so this joining could be
stress free and natural.
    She moved slowly downward,