Free Wild Mate: BBW Bear Shifter Romance by Natalie Kristen Page A

to the
door, Levi shrugged and went to put the toilet seat down. Then he
sat himself down on the toilet seat and tried to look comfortable.
    “ Um, I'm going to take a
shower,” Rebecca said pointedly.
    “ Yup. Go ahead.”
    She blew out an exasperated
breath. “Aren't you going to wait outside?”
    “ Nope.”
    “ But...it's all clear.
You said so yourself.”
    “ Yeah. But I'm not
letting you out of my sight. I'm not making that mistake again. I'm
not going to give that bastard a chance to come near you—again.”
    Rebecca's lips parted. She
realized at once what Levi was saying. He had just told her that he
believed her, that he believed Phin had really been in her room and
it wasn't all just a nightmare.
    “ T-thank you, Levi,”
she whispered.
    He gave a small nod. “Go.
Take your shower. I'll be right here. I'll watch your back, but I
won't stare at you.” He frowned. “Does that make any
sense?”
    She laughed and he could
almost feel the weight of the world lift from his chest. “Yes!
Yes, it does.”
    She disrobed quickly and
stepped into the shower. Levi tried not to stare at her luscious,
curvaceous figure. The water came on, and he could feel himself
getting hard just sitting there, listening to her movements, knowing
that she was shampooing her silky soft hair, and applying soap all
over that delectable body.
    He wished he was the one
soaping her, running his soapy hands over her heavy breasts and
sweet, generous hips and thighs.
    He would take his time, make
sure she was nicely soaped up, and massage every lush inch of her...
    The glass began to steam up.
    He couldn't see her clearly
through the fogged glass but he could still hear her moving around,
the water pelting down her back and running through her hair.
    The whole bathroom smelled of
her soap and shampoo, and of her. The scent was warm and inviting,
and he leaned back a little, inhaling the glorious scent of her
deeply.
    If only he could wake up to
this scent every day, and fall asleep with her scent all over him
every night...
    Levi blinked through the thick
steam rising from the shower. The glass was all fogged up, and the
entire bathroom was filled with dense, almost suffocating steam. He
could hear the water running, but the rhythm was different. It was
not the sound of water cascading down a warm, curvy body. It was the
sound of water hitting the cool, flat shower tiles.
    He jerked to his feet.
“Rebecca!”
    There was no answer.
    “ Rebecca!”
    Levi waved the steam and fog
away from his eyes, and skidded to the shower door. Despite the heat
from the shower, his blood felt like ice in his veins. He yanked the
shower door open, and stumbled into the scalding spray of water.
    With a shout, he snapped the
water off and spun round the narrow cubicle. An overturned shampoo
bottle was bleeding out its contents in the corner, saturating the
muggy, hot air with its cloying strawberry scent.
    The shower was empty.
    Rebecca was gone.
    Levi scrambled out of the
bathroom and checked the doors and windows. Everything was still
tightly secured and locked. No signs of a break in at all.
    Levi raced to the bathroom
again, sniffing the air and watching the steam and mist slowly
dissipating. As the glass began to clear, he caught his own
distraught face in the mirror.
    He closed his eyes briefly.
“It's not Phin,” he whispered, almost in disbelief.
    The mist swirled before his
eyes, taunting him, opening his eyes and mind to the terrible truth.
    “ No.”
    Levi clenched his fists
painfully.
    Mist.
    How could he have missed it?
    He had been keeping his eye
out for a human. He had just assumed that Phin Lester would be
coming after Rebecca on his own. He hadn't considered the
possibility that Phin might have aligned himself with some rogue
paranormals.
    He put his fist through the
mirror, smashing his snarling reflection into smithereens.
    Rebecca had woken up screaming
in the middle of the night. It hadn't been a nightmare. Phin had
been misted