Scrooge's Bear: Erotic Shifter Fairy Tale

By Yvette Hines

USA Today Bestselling Author Yvette Hines brings you another journey into her popular Den County world.

Ebony Scrooge has a harsh past, filled with rejection and deception that she has spent most of her adult life attempting to forget. Over a decade of pursuing nothing but higher advancement in her career, she purposely left no time for dating, playing, socializing or anything but work, work, work. When corruption and greed force her to step away from the path she was on and forge a new course, she quickly realizes she may be out of her element. Taking the advice of her best friend, Ebony is persuaded to take a night to enjoy passion of the physical nature. However, she could never have planned for the man that came her way.

Dainton Armel has enjoyed being an unattached and unmated Wear-bear thoroughly. He has made a practice of keeping far away from entanglements that would cause him to settle down. But, when his bear detects the scent of a woman he can't ignore, he quickly realizes he may be dragged in too deep. One night of passion, between the sheets with a beguiling, shrewd and cantankerous woman was what he expected. What he got was a set up by his bear with a woman the beast within him was all too ready and willing to claim.

Two strangers agree to a night of lust, but what they ended up with was a bond that will take them from city to county and a future neither can prepare for.
 

Erotic Shifter Fairy Tale 2.5

• Language: English
• Publisher: Romance Management, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 19, 2015
• ISBN: 9781513009704

Yvette Hines

USA Today Bestselling Author, Emma Award winning "Author of the Year" 2013. I’m just Yvette Hines. An erotica author who loves pleasurable hours between the sheets, whether it is a blended tale of interracial lovers, the clandestine bite and wicked passion of a paranormal lover or the sting of a commanding whip against tender flesh. Even better, make my day and toss in two gorgeously decadent men who only want to pleasure their woman. Oooh, yeah, now we’re talking. I write erotica because I love it. I’m a Scorpio, so I’m sensual by nature and that just makes me naughty. I’ve been penning erotic tales, on the hedonistic side of romance genre, since 2007. I’m married to my best friend. A guy who makes me laugh ‘til I can’t breathe. A man who steals my breath every time he walks into a room. I enjoy long walks on the beach... Well, I do, but really I love meeting readers, going to conferences, writing with my fellow authors in a coffee shop, attending BDSM events and Christmas. What do I write? Short and Sexy, Sensual Erotica. Yup, that’s me, SASSE Yvette Hines.

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Scrooge’s Bear

Erotic Shifter Fairy Tales

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Yvette Hines

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Scrooge’s Bear

Copyright © 2013, Yvette Hines

Cover Artist: Kellie (Covers by K Designs http://coversbykdesigns.blogspot.com/ )

Editor: Bernadette Schane

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Dedication

To my author friends and friends who have stood beside me through this year of trails. To my readers who are always patient, long-suffering and who are there to encourage with the right reviews at the right time.

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Table of Contents

1. Chapter One

2. Chapter Two

3. Chapter Three

4. Chapter Four

5. Chapter Five

Chapter One

Cloves and apricots. The scent drew him from the lobby of the elite hotel into the bar. He’d just completed a dinner meeting with a new fertilizer supplier and was on his way toward the front door when the delicate sweet and warm woodsy blend tickled his nose and tightened his core.

Where is it coming from? His bear nudged him on. It was late and he really needed to begin the three-hour drive back to Den County. However, he moved one step after another in the direction his animal nature guided him. Crossing the threshold of the bar he was bombarded by the multiple colognes and perfumes of the many women and men milling around. It was a Tuesday night, he doubted it normally was so packed with people, however, it was Christmas Eve. He assumed most were in town visiting family or on their own getaway, possibly part of an office holiday party. He supposed for  most Sacramento was a great place to be for Christmas, but not for a Were-bear like him. He and his kind enjoyed quiet time hibernating in their cabins with their family.

Even with all the other scents swirling through the air, the clove and apricot overpowered them all. Glancing around the room, he searched for the source disregarding one woman after another as they huddled around in groups at tables or on the dance floor swinging their hips before men to upbeat holiday tunes. Then his gaze glided over a woman sitting alone in a corner booth, far away from the source of music and revelry. A chestnut-brown-skinned Black woman, dressed in a dark emerald-green pantsuit, as she were attempting to pay homage to the holiday, but not. Her hair was long. He didn’t know how long since she had it pulled back in a bun. A classic, elegant and professional look. She was on her cell phone, but he could tell she was searching for someone by the shifting of her gaze as she inspected and rejected one man after another.

Was she meeting someone, or just hoping to catch someone?

The growl that rumbled low in his chest shocked him. It wasn’t like him to be territorial over a female. He didn’t lack for female companionship. Since he traveled in and out of the county conducting various business ventures, he met more than his share, and enjoyed them.

She shifted slightly in her seat and turned her head toward the door and met his gaze. And he was practically rocked back on his heels by the impact of the contact. What seized his breath in his chest was the vibrant gold tinge on the peripheral of his vision. Shit.

Damn. Heat bloomed in his core and began to spread out through his body.

Fuck. The hair on the nape of his neck began to rise.

The last thing he needed was to go feral in a group of non-shifters and wind up on the eleven o’clock news as a special report. That would bring unwanted attention to his community. They lived under the radar and liked it that way. It was probably best for him to execute an about-face and hightail it back up to Den.

However, he’d never been one to do exactly what was expected of him. A wild card among his friends and family, he danced to his own beat too often. And if this business trip opened the door for him to get a little hot sheet action, he was all for it.

Knowing he took a risk, he moved forward—in part because he wanted to, but more importantly, because he had to.

Holding her gaze he moved toward her. His vision became more of a tunnel and his hearing distinguished between the music and other people and zeroed in on all things of the woman before him—her slight elevated breathing and heart beat.

It wasn’t beating in full excitement or arousal mode but it was definitely headed there. 

As he drew closer, he noticed other things like the wide strip of gray hair that blended into the dark