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that, doing her damndest to keep the blush from her cheeks.
    “Well, it’s not like you’re the kind of guy who needs to get a fake bride either, okay? Let’s agree that life has a really weird sense of humor and sometimes we don’t get to pick the path we land on. I needed to get out of Philadelphia and I have a thing for forests, mountains, and hot werebears, so naturally I thought of you,” she said, grinning.
    Am I flirting? I think I’m flirting. I think I should stop flirting.
    But she was totally not going to stop flirting.
    “Okay. I can deal with that. Life throwing us curveballs—that’s something I think we can both understand. But I’m sorry to say that I don’t think I can honor the agreement, no matter what Royce said. Getting married just to get a plot of land sounds a bit out there even for me. And I live in Los Angeles, so I’m used to a whole lot of crazy,” Redmond said, walking them toward a pretty patch of forest.
    With a sigh, Rose nodded. On the long drive from the airport to the house, during which she got lost at least three times, she’d come to the same understanding. Though she’d explained her situation to Royce, and Royce explained Redmond’s to her, she didn’t feel comfortable with taking advantage of anyone like that. But it was getting late and Shifter Grove didn’t have any hotels, which she quickly deduced during a stop at the local diner and asking whether anyone had a room, so the only sensible thing to do had seemed to come by Hamilton House and tell them in person.
    She’d just been in the middle of that when Redmond stormed in, looking like sex in a pair of jeans, and she’d lost her head completely. It was hard to explain things when your brain was making squealing noises and wondering if his abs had six or eight ridges.
    “I don’t blame you. I actually came here to say that I wasn’t going to go through with it either. That it was just a little bit too weird for me, you know? I thought I could do it. It would certainly fix my problem, I think, but we don’t know each other from Adam and Eve. Can’t really walk down the aisle like that.”
    “Marriage is sacred,” Redmond said tersely, leading her deeper into the woods.
    “I agree,” she said softly, taking in the scents that left her head spinning.
    The lush greenery and the wide-open space was just what she’d been missing in Philadelphia. At the very least, she could say that she’d seen some fantastic scenery and taken a walk that was turning out to be far more romantic than anything that Kenner had ever done for her.
    “So, where does that leave us? I think this might go down in the record books as the shortest engagement ever recorded,” Redmond laughed, stopping as they reached a little stream.
    He pulled her to face him and she smiled in return. She barely knew the man’s name—well, she knew that and what little she could dig up on the heroic firefighter bear on the internet—but she felt an inexplicable pull toward him nevertheless. Though he came off as cocky and self-assured, there was a certain sweetness to him underneath that bravado and she could sense it easily.
    “Might be one of the few that ever happened without the betrothed even kissing,” she said, laughing.
    A devilish smirk crossed Redmond’s lips and he licked across them, looking like a wolf about to devour his prey.
    “We can fix that, you know,” he said.
    Before she could utter a word of protest, his hand had curled around her waist and she was pulled against him, her hands landing on his rock-hard chest. Gasping, her mouth responded easily as Redmond sought it out in a kiss, her tongue dancing against his as he thrust it into her mouth and claimed her so easily as his own. Her hands fisted around the fabric of his jacket, crushing her body against his as they kissed ravenously.
    Sparks flew and the tension that earlier had felt like uncertainty and maybe even a bit of fear was now transformed into sexual heat and