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Chapter Twenty-Six

Nurse Clover At Your Service

Clover

My heart pounded as I floored the accelerator to get Bellamy’s truck out of the parking spot. It wasn’t easy to haul ass with a giant grizzly bear in the truck bed. I was absolutely heartbroken to be fleeing clan land—No. Pissed off was more like it. This was our home, our family, and it had felt like we’d just stepped into the Twilight Zone.

But I couldn’t think about any of that until I knew Bellamy was okay.

He insisted he was fine, but it was nothing more than alpha bravado. His fur was stained with blood, and not only was he limping, he was holding his paw at a terrible angle, which could only mean one thing.

And those were just the injuries I could see. I’d kill Edgar myself if Bellamy was hurt worse than we thought.

I had to get him to a healer. Normally, that would be my Nana. Instead, I sped away from her as fast as I could.

Chandra Lowe was my best bet, but there was no way I could risk bringing him all the way to Granger Falls in this condition.

“Fuck!” I yelled to no one, since Bellamy probably couldn’t hear me, and slammed my hand against the steering wheel.

I pulled over to the side of the highway. No one had followed us, apparently the clan had what they wanted. But they still didn’t have the damn locket, and finding it felt further away than ever. Sheer adrenaline powered my climb into the truck bed.

“Bellamy!” I wrapped my arms around him and then jumped away. “I don’t want to hurt you.”

“ You’ll always make me feel better by touching me .” He groaned as he repositioned himself. “ I’m glad you got out of there. When I didn’t see you… I didn’t know how far they’d go to keep us apart.”

“How badly are you hurt?”

“ My arm is fucked. Hopefully nothing a shift can’t fix .” There was no hiding the pain in his eyes.

“Don’t you dare try to act brave right now, Bellamy Laredo. No being a stubborn, proud bear. If you need help, tell me what you need me to do.”

The heat that rolled off his body was enough to liquefy me. I braced myself as he shifted to human.

“Once again, I find myself on the side of the road with a naked bear.” I managed a chuckle, but I was terrified. A shift would probably heal his injuries, but if those bears came after us…

I hated thinking of my clan as the enemy with every fiber of my being.

“You say that like it’s a bad thing.” His attention was on his left arm. He gingerly put his other hand on his forearm and grimaced. “I was afraid this might happen. That bastard got me good.”

“Shit.” It didn’t look good. The skin was purple and bruised. “Are you hurt anywhere else? I can call Chandra right now. She can be ready for us when we get there.”

He shook his head and groaned. “Just my arm, I think.”

“Liar,” I said softly, kissing his cheek. “Let me check you. You’re gonna try to be tough and say you’re okay, but we need to know what we’re dealing with.”

With his good hand, he grabbed my chin and kissed me like I was the medicine we needed to heal him.

“You were pretty spectacular back there,” he said.

At first, I wasn’t sure what he was talking about. He did all the hard work. All I did was mouth off. Nothing out of the ordinary.

“Oh, the magic,” I chuckled softly. “I’ve never felt anything like that before.”

“Tell me how it felt.”

“Incredible. If only I had any idea how to summon that feeling on command, maybe we could use it to solve our problems.” There was a massive problem in the form of a broken Bellamy right in front of me. “We can figure that out later, once we know you’re okay.”

“Maybe you can use some of that power to make me feel better.” His eyes were heavy lidded with the suggestion.

“You want me to—Oh.” If the bear hadn’t made himself clear, his hard shaft was more than willing to spell things out for me. “Here? Are you crazy?”

“I thought you were the daring one.”

I could’ve argued, because he really did need to get his arm set, but he’d also just fought the clan alpha and his former best friend for the right to claim me. Injury aside, it was the hottest thing any man had ever done. He deserved a reward.

And my inner muscles were pulsing with need for that cock.

“I am.” I swallowed hard as a car sped by us. “I thought you were the careful one.”

“That was the case before a bear I considered a brother wanted to kill me, and I realized everything about those beliefs was a lie.” He winced as he moved his arm. “Now I need to feel something real.”

I could’ve argued with him. After all, I was the one who got him into this mess. But the truth was, I was so turned on there was no way we were going anywhere until I honored his request.

“I can do that.” I scraped my teeth over my bottom lip, loving the appreciative growl that slipped out of Bellamy every single time I did it.

No surprise our lips tangled in a kiss. Bellamy was hungry, like he was figuring out what it meant to let himself lose control.

I could be the perfect tour guide.

It took everything I had to pull myself away from that kiss. I raked my gaze over Bellamy’s naked body. He was glorious even when bruised and broken.

“Tell me where it hurts,” I whispered, then drew away from him.

My first move was to run my hand up his leg, all the way up to the top of his thigh. A moan slipped from his lips.

Our gazes locked.

“Feels incredible,” he said.

I ran my hand over his other leg, stopping close to his cock, but careful not to touch it. That wasn’t the kind of ache I was concerned with. At least, not yet, even though my lady parts wanted to speak to the manager about it.

Massaging his hip, I moved up to the hard plane of his stomach. His hair tickled my hand as I caressed his skin. But that wasn’t all that I felt.

Maybe it was aftershocks of my magic, but there was a spark there, something dangerous and untamed, ready to ignite…

And I was about to make it explode. I lowered my mouth to his stomach, running my tongue along the defined lines of his six-pack, loving the way his muscles tensed in anticipation of my touch. I made my way up to his nipples, which tightened on contact, and circled each one.

His heart thundered in his chest. Sweet moon, that was the sexiest sound on earth.

I trailed my lips along his neck, back to his lips, and he welcomed me. It felt like a homecoming. Being in this bear’s arms felt fucking magical.

I made quick work of slipping out of my jeans, conscious of the occasional passing car but not really giving a fuck if they knew what we were doing. Bellamy had become the center of my universe, and a magical force field formed around us. Protecting us, shielding us.

He groaned as I dragged my panties over his stomach. The lace was soaked with my desire.

“You’re so ready for me.” His voice was pure rumble, like he was still in his bear form.

“We have a lot of time to make up for.”

I straddled him. His good hand was at the base of his cock as I positioned myself to ride him. He slipped inside me, his hips thrusting, as he moved those fingers to my clit.

Electricity and something far more powerful than that rocketed through my veins. Grasping his shoulders, I fell forward, and our lips met in a messy kiss, expressing things that words couldn’t possibly convey alone. There were so many missed yesterdays, so much time that we could’ve been together, if it hadn’t been for the lies. The limitations.

If only we’d really known who we were…

Bellamy pinched my clit, bringing that little pity party to an abrupt end as he sent the voltage inside me into overdrive. I threw my head back, letting out a howl as my orgasm crashed through me. Bellamy’s shaft swelled.

“Clover,” the word came out between gritted teeth.

“I want to feel you come inside me.”

And with those words, he came undone. He shot his hot release inside me, and I saw nothing but stars and this glorious man. This bear.

My soul mate.

When he was done, he slipped out of me. I collapsed against him, cradled in his good arm, with my head on his shoulder.

The sun was starting to go down, the sky painted with the same pastels that had shielded us in that magical bubble. But I knew better.

Together, we were invincible.

And there were a lot of angry bears who would try to stop us from reaching our full power.