Some Bear to Love: BBW Bear Shifter (BWWM) Romance Standalone by Terry Bolryder Page A

elaborately carved headboard. Then he took another and repeated it on the other side. Her breasts shook as she looked from side to side, then gave him a sly grin and parted her legs for him. Damn, he should tie those as well, but he didn’t have time for that.
    He stood and went to the bathroom to grab a condom. He carefully unwrapped it as he walked back into the center of the room to stare at his captive princess on the bed. He undid his pants and enjoyed the widening of her eyes and the way she bit her lip as his member sprang free. He was large, but he’d try not to hurt her. Hopefully, she was experienced. He liked a woman who knew what she was doing.
    He slid his pants all the way off and pulled his shirt over his head. All the time, she stared at him like she wanted to eat him. Well, the feeling was mutual. His heart was threatening to beat out of his chest, he was more painfully hard than he’d ever been before, and an aching realization of just what she meant to him was starting to settle uncomfortably in his chest.
    He knelt between her splayed legs and gently removed her bikini bottom. It was pretty, but what was beneath it was much prettier. He parted the lips gently and ran a finger along her, exploring and playing before dipping inside to test her.
    He swore. She was so tight. He dipped another finger, then a third, stretching and stroking as she writhed and muttered expletives at him for taking so long. But one look at her heated, panting face told him she was enjoying it.
    And he had to know she was ready. Every impulse in his body made it impossible to hurt her. To the contrary, all he wanted to do was protect her, make her happy, make sure no harm ever came to her. And he needed it like he needed his next breath.
    He’d never known anything like it before, and suddenly, he needed to forget the strange sensation. So he put his hands on each of her soft knees, parted her legs, and then drove into her with one smooth motion.
    It was a mistake. Being inside her didn’t make him forget the uncomfortable feelings of love welling inside him. It intensified them by a hundred degrees. He settled over her, one hand on either side of her face. She looked up at him in wonder. Was she feeling these confusing things too? It was just supposed to be sex. It wasn’t supposed to be so… cosmic. Right now, inside of her, he felt like they were part of something greater than them, and it was an incredible feeling, one he wanted more of and to escape from all at the same time.
    She was his mate. He knew it more than ever. And he wanted to please her, so he began to move inside her. She uttered his name and wrapped her hands around his forearms as he pulled almost all the way out and then drove inside her.
    Her tight velvet walls encompassed him, homing him and grounding him, and her little gasps of pleasure each time he moved drove him wild. Her body was quaking beneath him, beautiful breasts quivering each time he drove inside. Legs moving to encircle him. Tension building within him at an incredible pace. All he could see was her face, so beautiful, whether she was laughing in the sun or biting her lip and rolling her eyes back in anticipation of hopefully the best orgasm of her life.
    He could tell the tension was building as he reached up and put a hand in her hair and dragged slowly through her braids, pulling slightly. She murmured for him to hurry, then told him to slow down, then said to hurry again. Her glazed silver eyes seemed just as lost as he felt.
    He reached between them to stimulate her externally as well as internally, because he felt like he was close to losing control inside. Her long-lashed eyes blinked up at him in amazement and her lips parted in a silent gasp that seemed to go on and on as her head flew back.
    She was coming, gasping as she clenched around him, her velvet walls threatening to milk him clean before he was done pleasuring her. But he bit down and silenced the beast inside. He would