Her Cowboy Bears (BBW MMF Menage Shapeshifter Romance) Read Free

Austin
weren’t exactly what they seemed? I didn’t want to believe it, but I knew I
would have to find out the truth if I was going to be able to look them in the
eye again.
    I didn’t even bother with my planned fast food trip on
my way home from the airport. My time I got back on the highway, my head was
too lost in itself to do anything but drive and the sun had set before I got
back to the ranch to find the four guys sitting around the kitchen table
playing cards.
    “Hey Caitlyn,” Eli greeted me when I walked in the
door.
    “How did it go?” Austin asked.
    “Fine,” I lied. “She apologized for leaving and then
got out of the truck.”
    “Well, it’s for the best,” Eli said. “Want to join us?”
    “Nah, I’m good,” I told them. “I’m going to go lay
down I think.”
    “Good call,” Austin agreed. “A drive like that will
wear you out pretty quick.”
    “Yeah,” I mumbled before I started climbing the
stairs.
    I said I was going to bed, but I didn’t even get under
the covers. I had to know if Ophelia was pulling my chain and I waited for
everyone else to go to bed before I sat down by my window and watched to see if
anyone would leave the house.
    The clock in my room ticked and ticked and I almost
gave up when midnight ticked by, but then I heard footsteps downstairs. Not
even a couple minutes later, two figures left by the back door and headed
toward the stables.
    “Oh crap,” I mumbled. Ophelia had been right. They
were taking off in the night. But why?
    I had my coat on before I even realized I was moving.
I kept telling my feet to stop, to stay put and go to bed, but I couldn’t. It
wasn’t any of my business, but I had to know what was going on and I made my
way downstairs just in time to see the riding off into the night through the
kitchen window.
    Now what? I silently asked myself.
    The answer should have been to go back to bed and
forget what I saw, but I couldn’t do it. I had to know exactly what was going
on and suddenly I was outside and racing for the stables myself.
    I’d only been there a week, but I’d already gotten
very good at saddling the horses and I was out of the barn in minutes,
following in the direction my two bosses had gone. I had no clue where I was
headed, but I was about to find out.
    I had lucked out – the moon was full and it was easy
enough to follow the tracks in the bright light. That was one thing I didn’t
think I’d ever get over – how bright the moon was out in the country. It was just
enough light to see by to keep my horse trotting along through the pasture.
    My bum was sore by time I’d found the other two
horses, but they’d been left tethered to a tree by a watering hole and I did
the same with mine. I had no clue where I was going, and I couldn’t see ahead
of me where the ground started to roll with hills, but a strange noise caught
my attention just before I gave up.
    I couldn’t place what it was, and I wasn’t sure if it
were animal or human, but I had to find out. With my cowboy boots on and my
jacket pulled tight, I climbed the closest hill and froze when I discovered
what was waiting on the other side.
    It wasn’t Eli or Austin, or anyone human for that
matter. What I discovered were two huge bears rolling around in the dust. They
snarled and snapped at each other, their claws and teeth bared, and I realized that
the two ranchers must have been out there somewhere hunting for the bears.
    That’s where they’ve been going, I told myself
as I watched them scrap. They probably didn’t want to scare us by admitting
there were bears roaming the property.
    But that thought died instantly when the bears stopped
fighting. There was no winner, no loser, but something totally different and
totally unexpected.
    “No...” I mumbled to myself when the bears stood up on
their hind legs. For a second I thought they’d seen me and were coming to
attack me, but instead they started to change.
    It was impossible, it was crazy, it