Home Or Her Bear: BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance (Bear Bluff Clan Book 4) Read Free Page B

I’m from Bear Bluff.” And I’m Melanie’s mate.
    “What are you doing this side of the mountain?” Kian asked, pulling the farmhouse door to and heading for his truck.
    “I came over to visit the bar.” Now he sounded as if he was just after a good time. But he didn’t think it was his place to tell anyone about his bond with Melanie, not when they hadn’t talked about it first.
    “Thank you for coming up to tell me. Want a lift into town? You can tell me what happened on the way.” Kian wasn’t so much asking, as expecting Taylor to go with him, and Taylor realised that Kian didn’t trust him entirely.
    “Sure, thanks.” He planned to go and wait at the hospital for Melanie anyway, so he might just as well save himself a trek through the snow. It also gave him an opportunity to get to know Kian, his mate’s brother. Damn, he had never felt so nervous in all his life.
    Kian pulled off, taking it slow, the snow was getting thicker up here. The farmhouse was on the lower slopes of the mountain and the wind was beginning to blow it into small drifts. At first they drove in silence, Taylor not sure what to say and Kian too preoccupied with thoughts about Alli.
    Only when they passed the car in the ditch did Kian speak. “How did it happen?”
    “Melanie skidded off the road. She climbed out through the window and then we managed to pull the door open and get Alli out.”
    “The ambulance didn’t get this far up?” Kian asked, looking at the snow, which had no tire tracks in it.
    “No. I carried her along the road, until Melanie got reception on her phone.”
    Kian looked at Taylor, appraising him. “Thank you,” he said again.
    “Anyone would have done the same.” For their mate.
     

Chapter Five – Melanie
    “I was so worried,” Melanie said, stroking Alli’s hair away from her face.
    “I’m fine,” Alli said, and then her face contorted in pain. “I know I wanted the baby to be born, but not like this.”
    “We’ll be at the hospital in a few minutes.” The paramedic, who had introduced himself as Dermot, checked the monitor once more, smiled and said to Alli, “I hope your mate’s on his way, or he might miss the birth.”
    “Kian will make it,” Melanie said trying to comfort Alli.
    “I hope so. He’s been looking forward to the birth so much,” Alli replied as her contraction passed.
    “I’m sure Taylor has got there by now.” Melanie took her phone out and checked it again. She had a signal, but when she rang the phone at the farmhouse, there was still no answer. She took that as a good sign, Kian must be on his way. If Taylor had gone to the farmhouse to find him and not just disappeared back to wherever he came from. He’s your mate, she reminded herself.
    “So my saviour just appeared from nowhere?” Alli asked again.
    “Yes. I was climbing out of the window, and he was just there.”
    “Great timing,” said Dermot.
    “Yes, it was,” murmured Alli. “Where did he come from?”
    “I don’t know. Like I said, he was just there.”
    “You’re sure he wasn’t the driver of the other car? The one that we swerved to avoid,” Alli asked.
    “Certain, there was no other car on the road when we walked back to meet the ambulance. That driver was long gone, probably didn’t even realise what had happened,” Melanie insisted.
    “So he just came out of nowhere?” Dermot watched Melanie’s face for her reaction.
    “Yes,” she blushed at the question, and the way Dermot was watching her.
    “ I see ,” the paramedic said.
    “What … do … you see?” Alli asked as another wave of pain swept over her.
    “Nothing. It was just lucky for you that he was there. This baby going to make an appearance very soon. You’re lucky it’s not about to arrive in a snow drift.”
    The lights of Bear Creek appeared in front of them and the ambulance made its way, as quickly as it dared in the snowy conditions, to the hospital. There, Dermot and the other paramedic wheeled