Free Romance: A Virgin For The Tiger: BBW Paranormal Shapeshifter Romance (BBW Shifter Romance) by Ashley Hunter Page A

going to be mine, see. We’re going to go into the woods now, you and I, and I’m going to put my heir inside you.” He groaned, brushing his nose along the side of her throat, an insane laugh ripping from him.
     
    “I smelled you. Oooh, I smelled you from miles away. You have no idea. No idea. None of what you are. Oh, my sweet. You will be mine. Your smell as sweet as meat, deep as blood, but to see you…”
     
    His entire body shuddered atop hers, his weight crushing her. When his slimy, red tongue licked up her neck, she had to turn her head away. Bile rose to the back of her throat, but she was afraid to vomit lest he choke her to death.
     
    “Your curves. I need your thick, sweet, delicious body. I need to feel you, to be in you. You don’t even know. You don’t, do you? You don’t know.”
     
    “Know what?” she asked, not sure why she even bothered. The way he was so frantic about it, so crazed.
     
    The hand on her throat rose to her chin, gripping her face and turning it to him. His eyes flashed golden, and when he grinned, his two fangs grew a full inch. The middle of his face pushed out, almost like a muzzle, and he started laughing. That big red tongue lolled out the side of his mouth.
     
    She screamed. It wasn’t intentional, but it happened all the same. The sound cut off in an instant when he grabbed her by the throat again, pure rage taking over his features, turning him into a monster.
     
    “I said not to scream!”
     
    Bernadette thrashed under him, trying to free herself, but he was impossibly strong. The tips of her fingers struck something solid. In that moment, she had no idea what it was, but she pushed her body to the side, and was able to slip her fingers around the cold metal thing.
     
    She didn’t hold anything back as she lifted the thing and crashed it into the man’s head. Metal struck his skull, the light going out from his eyes in an instant, and his body toppled to the side.
     
    Bernadette sucked in air, coughing and choking, her throat aching and burning. Pain pulsed from her neck and down her shoulders as she climbed out from under him. His body, limp and lifeless, rolled to the side when she stood.
     
    Bursting through the doors back into the kitchens, Bernadette screamed for Larry. Over and over she screamed his name, even when he was right beside her. She screamed, her entire body pitching forward as her mind unleashed all the emotion she was feeling.
     
    The other patrons of the bar came rushing into the kitchen to see what was going on. Henry, one of the older regulars, came forward and gingerly took the object from her hand.
     
    “Whose blood is this?” he asked. The object she’d grabbed had been a piece of rebar with a hunk of bloody concrete stuck to the end.
     
    “He tried to, that man, outside. He’s outside,” she said between choking sobs.
     
    “C’mon boys, let’s get the sucker!” Henry cried, the eight other men taking up the cry.
     
    When they rushed out there, she expected to hear something. Shock at the dead body, or a fight, or something. Instead, the only sounds were of confusion.
     
    Pushing Larry away, Bernadette forced her way outside and through the crowd of men.
     
    On the gravel was a small pool of blood and the word “MINE” smeared with the blood on the gravel.
     

 
    Chapter 2
     
     
    One week later, Bernadette sat at the desk of her new job. Mary, her old high school friend, helped her get the job working as secretary for possibly the youngest, and most handsome billionaire in the entire city.
     
    After the mess back in town, and knowing that… thing, was still out there, Bernadette had to leave. Disappear. There was no way she would risk him finding her again.
     
    Here, among all these people, she felt she could make a fresh new start. Now she just had to do well for a reputed hard-ass. If she got fired, she didn’t know what she’d do.
     
    “All right,” Susanne the hiring manager said, “just like we