Bear the Burn (Fire Bears Book 2) Read Online Free

casualty of what he was, especially if Cody was going to take the Breck Crew public.
    What he needed was a good Lisa fuck to get Quinn off his mind, but when he thought of the woman he occasionally hooked up with, his dick deflated completely. This wasn’t like him. The women he went out with knew the drill. No commitment, no attachment. Fun only and leave emotions at the door. Quinn had him all mixed up inside. Probably because she’d been all frail and needy. He’d always had a weak spot for vulnerable things. Tank included.
    He couldn’t talk to his brothers about Quinn or his inconvenient feelings for a stranger. They’d go straight to Ma and wouldn’t ever let him live this down. But he felt crazy inside, all churning and volatile, as if his bear was going to rip out of him without warning. He’d always maintained perfect control over his animal—through two tours of service, through a dozen black ops missions, even when Krueger had hit that kill switch. But now, his beast was snarling to escape, and he didn’t understand it. He was the brother who didn’t feel. That was his gig, and it had served him well. In this life, survival depended on the ability to weather anything. He’d gone years without feeling a damned thing, and now some human was turning him into a half-crazed, protective-as-hell lunatic.
    He sauntered to his pickup, slid behind the wheel and slammed the door beside him. Behind the wheel, he opened his phone and listened for the subtle clicking sound that would tell him if he was being monitored. Silence had him hitting speed dial for someone who might give him good advice. For someone who could settle him down and tell him to get ahold of himself and forget about Quinn in light of the shit storm that was about to barrel down on the Breck Crew.
    The blare of guitar and a steady country song blasted through the phone a split second before Bruiser answered, “Hello?”
    “Hey, man.”
    “Dade? Hang on.” Bruiser’s voice lowered as he said, “I’ll be right back, D. It’s my brother.”
    An involuntary smile took Dade’s face. He’d never heard Bruiser call him family without specifying he was only his half -brother. Damn, he was glad Bruiser was back on speaking terms with the Breck Crew. The music faded in the background, but he winced as a blast of static wind hurt his sensitive ears.
    “Sorry, man,” Bruiser muttered. “We’re out at Sammy’s watching Denison and Brighton play a set.”
    “Oh, you want me to call you back later?”
    “Nah, no reception up at the trailer park. Besides, it’s good to hear your voice. How’s things?”
    Dade screwed up his face and traced the steering wheel with his fingertip. “Not awesome. Shayna is back.”
    “Shayna?”
    “IESA agent. And she’s come back begging a cub. Someone has Changed her, and she’s agreed to be part of some reproductive research project Krueger was going after before…well…you know.” Before Damon Daye ate his stupid ass.
    “Shee-yit.”
    “Yep.”
    “What are you going to do?”
    “Cody wants to go public. Take the power from IESA and out the agency along with us. It’s a desperation move.”
    “Or it’s time.”
    “Maybe. I don’t know. Listen, I have a question I need to ask you. I can’t bring it to Gage, Boone, or Cody because they’ll go straight to Ma with it and—”
    “Hey, how do you know I won’t go to Ma with it?”
    Dade frowned at the row of streetlights that lined the road in front of the station. “Are you and Ma talking again?”
    “Yeah, but your secret is safe with me. Shoot when ready.”
    Wait, Bruiser was talking to Ma again? He was the half-dragon, half-bear result of an affair between his dad and Bruiser’s mother. Ma hadn’t found out about Bruiser until he was ten when Dad had died. She’d raised him to adulthood, but she’d struggled with it, and unfortunately, Bruiser had felt the chill of her inability to get over Dad’s betrayal. If they were talking again,