Claimed At First Sight (Curvy BBW Paranormal Bear Shifter Romance) Read Free

Layla.  I’ve turned you, and until the day I die your soul will be irrevocably linked to mine.”
     
    “You mean, you’ve sacrificed your heart in order to save me?”  My chest was suddenly tight.  He had sacrificed everything to save me. I was a complete stranger.  He would never have the chance to find his own true love. 
     
    My emotions roared to life, an unfamiliar rumbling grew in my chest.  Every bit of self-loathing I had ever felt came bubbling to the surface in a miserable wave.  Compared to him, I was nothing.  Not in the same planet, let alone the same league.  He was a good man, one who any woman would be happy to have.  A man who deserved the woman of his dreams, not to be stuck with a small-town curvy girl that he never truly loved.  I felt sick.  Death seemed a more inviting future than one where my existence was the bane of his.  I rolled away from him, tears streaming down my cheeks.
     
    “Talk to me,” Case pleaded.  “Don’t shut me out. I know I have taken everything from you, but I’ll be damned if you won’t let me try to prove myself to you.”
     
    “Prove yourself to me?”  I croaked. “How could I ever be good enough for you?  I’m nothing but a broken fat girl that you took pity on.  You should have just let her kill me.” 
     
    “Damn it, Layla,” Case roared, “I knew it from the moment I saw you.  Every cell in my body was destined to be yours.” 
     
    I looked up at him with confusion.
     
    “True shifters can sense these things.  We are born with a fated mate, and you were mine, Layla.  You are the most beautiful woman I have ever laid eyes upon, and my heart was yours before you ever even spoke to me.  It’s you who will suffer.  You are human; your heart is different than ours.  If you wind up like Micah, and grow to hate me, you’ll spend the rest of your life alone, and you will destroy me. But for me, it doesn’t matter. Because I love you. And I always will, no matter what you do or say to me.”  
     
    Fire burned from my core out to my fingertips.  My lips quivered and my hands shook.  “Fated mate,” I said softly to no one in particular. 
     
    It was all so much to take in--this beautiful, wonderful, protective man was spilling his heart and soul to me.  His regret was not for his own predicament, but for that of mine.  He despised himself for having made the decision for me. 
     
    I reached up and slid my fingertips into his thick dark hair.  He leaned down and pressed his lips softly against my forehead. 
     
    But it wasn’t enough, the flame in my heart had been set ablaze, and I needed more.
     
    “Kiss me,” I begged him, needing to prove to him that he had done nothing wrong. 
     
    His lips met mine in a passionate kiss, a growl escaping from deep in his chest.  The hair on the back of my neck stood on end, and my nipples tightened with desire.  With an uncontrollable passion overwhelming us both, our hands ran freely over one another.  His every touch was new, and my body was covered in goose bumps left in the wake of his exploration.  I wanted more.  I needed more. 
     
    Never once did I look back and question my decision.  I gave my heart to him then and there, promising my heart to him for better or for worse, and throwing caution to the wind. 
     
    Case tore the shirt off of me, exposing my bare flesh.  “You are absolutely beautiful,” he groaned, his tongue lathing my hard nipples. 
     
    I slid myself up to my knees and sat down on his lap, straddling his midsection as I rocked my hips against his jeans. His thick cock pressed stiffly up between my thighs.  My fingers worked to unsnap the buttons of his shirt until his tanned chest was bared to me.  My clit pulsed with excitement, reveling in the beauty of his powerful body.  He was built like Adonis, and he was mine, every last inch of this god-like beast.  I ran my nails over his hard, sinuous muscles, drawing the familiar vibration from