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toward the house.

The crash, when it came, felt like the collapse of a world. The house looked so small from far away. It looked fragile, as if made of cardboard. But when the van crashed through the wall, it felt like they were all in the middle of an explosion.

The one thing Jessie was not sure of was how fast she could move. As it turned out, her body was more confident than her brain was. Or else, it was her bear taking over. The second the van stopped with a lurch that made them all pitch forward and then get thrown back in their seats, they were all moving. Nathan and Cody lunged for the van doors, throwing them open.

It was chaos.

The van had definitely slammed into some bodies that were now on the floor and everyone else was screaming and shouting. Just as quickly, Jessie and the Strauss brothers shifted into the bear forms and went on the attack, tackling anyone they saw with tooth and claw.

The blood spilled freely and Jessie tasted more than one rough woods bear in her mouth and took more than one hit, once the shifters left standing from the van’s charge had the presence of mind to shift themselves. There would be little left of the house as they wrestled across the floor, splintering furniture, the roars of all the bears thundering in the confined space and claws getting caught in dusty old carpets and shredding upholstery and wood alike.

It was a blur of a battle. Jessie had little sense of who she was fighting at any given time. But she knew what the Strauss brothers smelled like and that was how she avoided accidentally attacking any of them. The rough woods bears all had a pungent type of scent to them that was so sharply different from the pleasantly musky fragrance that Cody and his brothers gave off or from the unmistakable and distinct sweet scent of the cubs, that it offered a kind of protection as she swiped with her claws and threw herself at any bear giving off the wrong odor.

Somewhere in the distance, Jessie heard another car and a couple of minutes later, two much older bears came charging in to join the fight. Those were the two elders sympathetic to their cause, Jessie supposed and she felt a flash of pride and gratitude for them.

They had taken out most of the sleuth, all either knocked out or too badly injured to fight or dead on the floor, when Jessie saw one of the last standing shifting into human form and ran up the stairs.

The cubs.

Jessie didn’t think before she lumbered up the stairs after a tall, older woman with silvery gray hair. She had heard the woman yelling to the sleuth’s Alpha who Connor was fighting now. This woman was one of the leaders.

This woman had hurt her cubs.

The stairway was far too narrow for her huge frame and some of the fragile old steps collapsed under her feet but she made it to the landing and to the shifter who screamed as she lunged and turned her head to take his neck neatly in her vise of a jaw. Jessie didn’t hesitate, sinking her teeth into the tender flesh and wrenching the shifter back and forth. She could feel the woman trying to shift, her pushing at the soft casing of her human skin but in seconds, it was too late.

Jessie dropped the still warm body from her jaws and clamored over it, bumping into the wall as she followed the sweet scent of the cubs.

She didn’t shift back until she found them all, having knocked down a rickety bedroom door with one swipe of her paw. Inside, the kids were in various states. Jason and Chris were shifted, standing protectively in front of Molly in her human form who cradled little Sophie in her arms, the tiny bear cubs of the twins shrinking back behind them, quivering.

“Jessie,” Molly murmured, and ran to her. Jessie knelt down and ducked her great head and Molly wrapped an arm around her, sinking her little hand into Jessie’s thick fur as she clutched the crying baby.

Downstairs, the ruckus had died down.

The fight was over. The cubs were safe.

On the drive back to the lodge, Jessie held the twins in her lap. Jason and Chris were squeezed between her and Cody and Molly sat up in front with Nathan and Eric who were doing their damndest to make her laugh