Bear Seeking Bride: Thorn (Bear Canyon Brides Book 6) (BBW Paranormal Bear-Shifter Menage Romance) Read Free Page B

hurried toward the woman’s table and Hawk followed a step behind. They stopped about two feet away from her and spoke before she acknowledged their presence.
    “Ava?” he asked.
    She looked up from her menu and he willed his cock to behave. He’d noticed her beauty from the door, but up close she was stunning. The freckles over her nose and cheeks did something to him a freckle never had before, and her deep blue eyes were mesmerizing. In that moment, he knew she owned him. She had the power to fill his world with happiness, or destroy it completely. The realization surprised him, but he wasn’t afraid.
    “Yes?” Her voice cracked on the word, and she eyed them warily.
    “I’m Gavin, and this is my brother Hawk. We’re Thorn… We wrote the ad you replied to.”
    She looked back and forth between them and frowned.
    “You’re Thorn?” she asked, closing her menu. “Both of you?”
    Hawk took the lead and sat down across from her. Gavin followed.
    “Yes, our last name is Thorn,” Hawk explained. “I know this might be strange, especially for a full human, but it’s fairly common for identical twin shifters to share a mate. We work together, live together and we’re closer than most siblings. It makes sense that the same woman would satisfy us both.”
    “Do you…satisfy each other?” she asked, her brow furrowed.
    “No, we don’t,” Hawk said a little too honestly.
    Shit! Time for some damage control.
    “We get asked that question a lot,” Gavin laughed.
    He relaxed a bit when one side of her mouth perked up, but she still wasn’t convinced.
    “Think of us as two halves of a perfect whole,” Gavin continued. “Together, we possess all of the qualities listed in our ad, but you get two men loving you instead of one.”
    Fuck!
    He’d fucked up. The minute the words left his mouth, he’d known he’d blown it by the look on her face. Apparently, their mate wasn’t the kind to swoon over the thought of having sex with two men.
    “Let me get this straight,” she said, glaring back and forth between the two of them. “You, the two of you, pretended to be one man and placed an ad for a curvy plus-sized human to share? Is this some kind of joke? Do you prey on the insecurities of curvy women for a good time? Do you think we are all so desperate for sex that we’ll do anything to get it? Even if it means being used by two arrogant playboys who fill our heads with empty promises? I thought you were sincere. I trusted you. I know that was stupid on my part, but I did. Unfortunately, I don’t play games with untrustworthy men who have too much time on their hands.”
    She stood up so fast her chair scuffed the floor, drawing the attention of everyone in the room.
    “Do not contact me again.”
    She whispered the angry words and hurried out of the building.
    He and Hawk stared straight ahead and didn’t turn back to watch her leave. He didn’t understand how her angry insults could hurt, especially since she didn’t know them, but his heart ached as if it had been betrayed. Inside, his bear whimpered and growled for release. Her reaction left him dumbfounded and he found it difficult to breathe.
    The owner of the restaurant carefully approached their table.
    “Doctors Thorns…sirs…is everything okay? Can I get you anything?”
    “Everything is fine,” Hawk forced out. “Two bottled waters please, and the check.”
    “There’s no check, sir,” the owner replied. “It’s on the house. I’ll be right back.”
    “Did that seriously just happen?” Gavin asked.
    “I think so,” Hawk answered.
    “What the fucking hell? What went wrong?” he asked just above a whisper.
    “How the fuck should I know?” Hawk replied, looking around the room. “I feel like we’re on one of those hidden camera TV shows.”
    “At least that would make some sort of sense.”
    He instinctually looked around, too. Everyone had gone back to their meals the moment Ava ran out the door, and he appreciated the