Taming a Bear: Not Your Average Fox: BBW Shifter Romance (Red Moon Seduction) Read Free Page B

it’s not like she wanted him to show up on her doorstep. She’d only turn him away if he did. It would be a waste of both of their time. If she set herself free and roamed outside, she might find another… Who was she kidding, she didn’t want another. She wanted Matt.
    Anna clocked in and headed to her floor.
    “Hey, foxy,” Gary winked. The security guard thought he was cute calling her that. She just thought he was an asshole. Yeah, play on words, she got it…but the way he leered at her tits when he said it and rarely looked into her eyes, yeah…creeper.
    Anna settled in and started her paperwork. She’d have to make rounds soon, check on her patients, but without checking her charts, she’d end up missing crucial details.
    Most of her patients were sleeping with the lights turned low. She peeked into the rooms and crates, making sure each one had what they needed. The emergency vet clinic took in critically wounded and tough cases. There was a regular clinic next door for standard cases. She was in the small animal wing. There was a larger animal wing, but she needed to finish more schooling to work in that unit. A lot of it came down to handling them, and the surgeries could be more difficult. Anesthesia was another concern with larger animals. She hoped to become one of the surgeons at the clinic with enough schooling and time behind her.
    Shifters went to family doctors. The doctors in Mountain View Crest were trained to work on both the human and animal form and special needs of the shifter. Only in rare cases did the veterinarian surgeons get involved. The animal hospital that she worked at was strictly an animal hospital for both domestic and wild animals, for family pets and the like.
    Most shifters stayed in human form in the daylight hours. Shifting could occur at any time, but there was an understanding that your animal form wasn’t your primary being for work and daily life. Rules of their world were half human, half shifter rules, but because humans had to come in and out of their town time to time, it helped keep the peace and people weren’t as frightened.
    The better the relations were between Mountain View Crest and the human city, the less turmoil there was. There was a segment of time where tempers flared and things got heated. It was ugly for everyone. The humans added barbing on to the tops of the tall fences. Fear and ignorance led most of it. By the time things calmed back down, the damage was done and new thoughts and ideas were formed.
    Anna finished her hours and clocked out. Heading home in the morning, she was tired and cranky. While her inner fox enjoyed the nocturnal hours, her human was used to sleeping overnight. And all she cared about was sleep by the time she got home.

Chapter 5
     
    Matt stood tall beside his partner and brother, Kai. They were doing their daily grind when something caught his attention. Making the rounds during inspections, he didn’t expect to come across the quarrel. He could hear their voices escalating, but more than anything, it was their scent that caught him off guard. It almost reminded him of…
    “Anna,” he called out. “Are you okay?” He rounded the corner and saw Hawk and Anna arguing near her car.
    They spun around on hearing his voice. Hawk rolled his eyes. “Oh, here we go,” he mumbled under his breath.
    “I’m fine,” Anna said and put her hand up.
    Matt walked closer and sniffed the air. Something wasn’t right. He scoured her face and noticed her clenched jaw. Hawk had a well-defined vein along the side of his neck that tensed.
    Matt stared at them. “Are you going to lie to me again, or tell me what’s going on?”
    “It’s not your business,” Hawk s pat out.
    Matt ’s partner walked up beside him. “Is everything okay here?” Kai stood in Hawk’s personal space.
    “I’d like to know that myself,” Matt said, crossing his massive arms across his chest.
    Anna sighed. “Look, I know you think you need to save me