Bearly Breathing (Werebears of New Hampshire #1)(8)

Edwin was moving in on Grace. “Shit,” Connor cursed under his breath.

“Oh look,” Grace said. “He has clothes on. Isn’t that nice?”

Edwin’s face started to twitch and his fingers were curling up.

Connor gave him a look that would freeze the grim reaper. Edwin got a hold of himself and shook out his body. He stopped phasing.


For now.

Sidney walked over to him and whispered in Edwin’s ear. Connor could hear with his enhanced shifter hearing. “Remember what I told you,” Sidney said.

Connor gulped.

Edwin cleared his throat and stared at Grace. “I want to see you naked,” he said.

“Wow,” Grace said, with her hands on her hips. “You really know how to talk to a woman.”

Edwin looked around the room, confused. “Should I not have said that?”

Rebecca groaned beside him. “Maybe Ibiza is a better idea.”

Angie inched towards the exit. “Maybe a restaurant is a better idea.”

Sidney followed her to the door. “Great! Which restaurant are we eating at?”

Angie giggled. “It’s thirty miles down the road that way. We’ll meet you there.”

Sidney nodded. “I know that place. The owner is a big fan of mine.”

The three girls backed out of the door.

The guys tried to follow them out. Connor placed a hand on Sidney’s chest and a hand on Edwin’s. “Stay here,” he snapped. He exhaled. “Just, go in the kitchen and finish dinner. And don’t f*ck anything up.”

Connor ran out the door. The girls were heading to the car. “Wait,” he called out.

He ran up to them. Grace was watching him with her arms crossed; Angie with her hands on her hips. Rebecca was the only one that seemed approachable.

“I’m so sorry,” Connor apologized, for what felt like the hundredth time. “They’re harmless guys. They just don’t meet a lot of women.” He motioned to the trees with his hand. “We don’t have a lot of pretty ladies coming through here.”

Angie dropped her hands. “They’re not that bad. If you forget about the fact that Edwin showed us his junk and the big guy smelled me like a dog.”

Grace and Rebecca chuckled. Connor sighed in relief. Perhaps he could save them yet.

Rebecca looked back towards the kitchen. “It does smell good in there,” she said. Connor stole a glance at her lips as she spoke and his stomach fluttered.

She turned towards the girls. “What do you think?”

Grace rolled her eyes. “Let’s just go eat. I’m starving.” She pushed past them back into the guest house.





Rebecca sat at the table with Grace on her left and Angie on her right. Edwin was sitting in front of Grace staring at her with an intense stare and Sidney was in front of Angie watching her eat with a big, dumb, grin on his face.

Connor was running in and out of the kitchen every two minutes and kept asking if everything was okay. Every time she smiled and nodded at him his shoulders would slump down in relief. It was really cute the way he was trying to make everything perfect for them and failing miserably.

“More wine?” he asked, raising the bottle and his eyebrows at her.

This wasn’t as bad as they let on. Rebecca could tell that Grace was into Edwin, even if she would never admit to it and she noticed that Angie kept glancing at Sidney’s arms.

“Sure,” Rebecca answered and Connor’s face lit up in a heartwarming smile. And this guy sitting across from her was definitely not hard to look at. She was excited for the nice scenery up here but this was way better than what she had in mind.

He leaned over and filled her glass. His face was focused and concentrated and Rebecca couldn’t help but smirk. His eyebrows were furrowed and his lips were tight as he was careful not to let a drop of wine fall on the tablecloth. She always liked a man that paid attention to the little details. That was the opposite of Mark who had two different color candles that were different lengths, the one time that he had candles at dinner. He would serve dessert forks for dinner and dinner forks for dessert. He would just shrug whenever she pointed it out. And it drove her nuts that he would always serve himself first. It wasn’t a big deal but she always found it sexy when a man had the little details taken care of. But still. She would take Mark back even after what he did to her.

“You have beautiful teeth,” Edwin said to Grace.

He might have had the little details taken care of but the big details, like his employees, needed some work.

Grace stared at him with her fork frozen in the air. A piece of asparagus was sliding off. “Thank you,” she said with a hint of sarcasm.

It was lost on Edwin. “Are you happy with them?”

“They’re great,” she said, rolling her eyes. “They help me chew my food.”

Edwin smiled, showing his own perfect teeth. “Well they’re beautiful.” He sat up in his chair, looking encouraged by his perceived successful interaction.

Where did this guy come from?

Edwin glanced down at Grace’s breasts. “You’re breasts are-”


“Edwin!” Connor snapped.

“Did you know that teeth are the hardest bones in a human body?” Sidney asked, nodding his head.