An Ember To Bear (Fire Bear Shifters 5) Read Free Page B

me where the airplanes are?”
    “By the runway,” Zach said, and then started laughing again. “The moon is so bright. Bright, bright, bright.”
    Mindy glanced up at the sky, where the moon was now hidden completely by what appeared to be storm clouds. Maybe she should have just let Kyle call this guy a cab. Damn her stupid need to always help everyone out. Suddenly, she had an idea.
    “Zach, can I see your driver’s license?” she asked.
    “Sure,” he said, then started laughing again. “It’s on the moon.”
    Mindy heaved another sigh, and then slid her hand between the seat and Zach’s ass, trying to reach into the back pocket of his jeans and find his wallet.
    “Mmm, that feels good,” he said as Mindy’s hand felt around for his pocket.
    “Yeah, well, don’t get used to it,” she said, although she had to admit that his ass felt pretty good, too. Like his back, it seemed to consist of pure muscle. Mindy found the wallet and pulled it out quickly, then started flipping through the disorganized mess of cards inside. Out of the corner of her eye, she could see that Zach had an erection pushing up against the fabric of his jeans. And, from the looks of it, he was huge. She did a double take as she stared at the outline of his dick pushing insistently against his pants. For a moment, she let herself imagine actually spending the night with him. It had been so long since she’d paid attention to a guy, and she felt a familiar warm craving stirring in her stomach.
    In the next instant, she shook her head, and opened her car door. That was it. She had to get a grip, here. What was she thinking? She couldn’t take home a strange guy who had just gotten an erection from her feeling around for his wallet. She would go back inside and let Kyle call the guy a cab.
    But as she started to step out of the car, she heard the loud snorting of a snore. He had fallen asleep, and, if the sound of his snoring was any indication, he wouldn’t be waking up any time soon. Mindy shut her door again and continued flipping through Zach’s wallet. She found his driver’s license and put the address on it into her phone’s GPS. It looked like he lived somewhere about fifteen minutes outside of town.
    Mindy looked over at Zach, who was slumped against the door in what looked like a very uncomfortable manner. She sighed and fired up her engine. Hopefully the address on his driver’s license was current and correct. As she pulled out of the parking lot, the clouds in the sky continued to darken. Mindy cast a worried look at the sky. Hopefully, if it was going to storm, she would manage to make it home before the rain started.
    She followed the directions on her GPS to the outskirts of Red Valley, and then onto a country road that she’d never driven before. As far as she knew, this road only led out to a state forest with some hiking trails. She hadn’t thought anyone actually lived out this way. Mindy frowned as the dark forest whizzed by her windows. After about five minutes, the dark clouds finally turned from merely threatening to actually pouring down rain. Her visibility was reduced to nearly zero, and she slowed the car down as she strained to see the unlit road ahead of her. According to her GPS, she still had about ten minutes to go on this road. She glanced over at Zach’s slumped form, and swore under her breath.
    “This had better be where you live, mister,” she said. “Otherwise, I might just leave your drunk ass on the side of the road.”
    For a few more minutes, Mindy continued to creep along through the deluge. When she had about five minutes left until she reached the address on Zach’s driver’s license, she suddenly heard a loud pop and felt her car lurched sideways. She cursed under her breath as she pulled over to the side of the road and turned on her hazard lights. She glanced around the car in hopes that there might be a spare umbrella kicking around in her backseat, but all she found was an old