Billionaire Bear Shifters A Paranormal Romance Complete Series Boxset - Brittany White Page 0,21

a laugh that turned into a breathless, giddy hysterical shout. She dropped her second airplane bottle and bent over, grasping her knees, helpless with laughter. She sounded a little nuts, she thought. But the entire situation had suddenly struck her as just too funny.

“Why...why am I laughing?!” Alanna gasped, her eyes tearing up yet again. “Are you joking? Are you seriously that stupid? Oh my God, you are such a stupid asshole!”

I’m off my rocker, Alanna thought. Why can’t I shut up?

The blow was a backhanded slap that she’d fully expected yet which somehow came as a surprise. Alanna gasped and fell back a little but she held her ground, wincing as she absorbed the blow. She stood up straight and felt a little proud of herself. She’d have a bruise. But she was okay.

Then John shifted.

“Oh shit.”

A truly gigantic brown bear was coming at her, rearing up on his hind legs. Alanna was about to shift, but she didn’t have time before John tossed her aside like candy and she slammed into the dining table.

“Son of a…”

Her own bear was pissed. The corner of the table had hit her right in the gut and it hurt. He’d kill her if he wasn’t careful. She spun around and shifted herself, and the two of them went at each other, tumbling to the floor, wrestling and roaring and swiping at each other with massive claws.

It was over too quickly. John’s bear was just too big. All Alanna could do was put up a decent fight just to prove a point, but she knew she couldn’t win. In a couple of minutes, having wrestled their way into the living room of their suite, knocking into the coffee table and breaking a glass vase on top of it, John had her pinned. It wouldn’t have been so bad in her mind if he didn’t seem to be enjoying it so much. The way he pinned her was more like a person than a bear too, his massive paw clamping her head to the floor. He should’ve just taken her neck in his mouth. That was how you got a foe to submit. But it wasn’t just that. He wanted her to be humiliated.

Alanna went limp and felt even worse than she had minutes before, any spark of defiance now gone. He’d made her feel so small. But it was really all Rawley. It might as well have been Rawley’s bear and Rawley’s paw keeping her down on the floor, helpless to do anything but bend to his will.

John rolled off of her and the two of them shifted back. She was still on the floor, now in her human form, as John got to his feet. She didn’t want to move. She curled up into a ball and lay there as John dusted himself off and caught his breath.

I wonder if there are bear fights in these rooms a lot, Alanna thought dimly. It was a strange thought that came from nowhere. But it was better than thinking of anything else.

“Clean this up and go to your room,” John said. He went right back to his seat at the dining table and took a sip of his drink, like none of it had even happened.

Alanna did as she was told, once she’d picked herself up off the floor. They’d tossed some furniture aside, though the only thing they’d actually broken was the vase. Alanna knew the right thing to do was to call house-keeping and have them clean up the glass and put the cost of the vase on the bill. But she felt a sense of shame about it. She cleaned up the glass herself, cutting her fingers up a little as she picked up jagged bits of porcelain and threw them away. She found a small supply of bandages in the kitchen and took her time in the bathroom, still sniffling and crying a little as she rinsed the blood from her hands and bandaged herself up.

She looked at herself in the mirror and saw a pale, haggard woman.

She had also seen herself in the mirror at the dress shop when Nathan had been standing right there with her...she’d looked so much better and happier.

Alanna went to bed late that night but even then, buried under luxurious 600-thread count sheets and the goose feather comforter, she could not sleep.

She waited until John was asleep to leave the suite. She was dressed only in a tiny pair of pajama shorts and a