Bearly a Memory: Pacific Northwest Bears: (Shifter Romance) Read Online Free Page B

friendly public servant? You wouldn’t happen to be married now, would ya, Sheriff Rochon?” Maybelle asked.
    Clearing his throat, “No ma’am, not married.”
    “Well, you cute? You sound cute,” she continued.
    “Uh…” Shit, Tanner was out of his element on this.
    “Oh, I’m just teasing you, sugar. You go find out if my girl is okay. You call me the minute you know. She’s healthy, you tell her to haul her ass back here before I blister it. She’s sick, you call me and let me know. Brooklyn’s in trouble, we’ll stay put, but I want regular updates. I can Google with the best of them. I can figure out where she is and where you are if I have to,” she warned.
    “I’ll keep in touch, Maybelle. I promise,” he said. He really didn’t want her to track him down.
    “You do that. And while you’re checking on my baby, you just text me over a picture of you. You know, just in case I need to, you know…identify you,” she said.
    Tanner wasn’t sure if she meant that in a good way or a not so good way.
    “I’ll be in touch,” Tanner said and pushed the button to hang up before the conversation got any more uncomfortable.
    Tanner ran over in his mind what he knew so far. It wasn’t much, but his bear was telling him that he needed to be on point for this. Crazy parents and a pretty woman couldn’t distract him. Much.

Chapter 5
    P ulling into the hospital parking lot, Tanner parked up front in one of the spaces marked for police vehicles.
    As he got out, he waved at a few people leaving. Swinging by the reception desk, he smiled and greeted the receptionist, another Rochon cousin, and then headed directly to the ER.
    A few nurses nodded as they saw him enter. He was looking for Eddie. Another Rochon, who was the first doctor in the family. Even when he was offered positions all over the country, he came home to work. He said that Apex needed him as much as any big city.
    “Eddie, how’s the patient?” he asked when he spotted him in the hallway.
    “I’m assuming you mean the only one currently here that doesn’t have a name?” Eddie flashed a smile that had most women's panties dropping at the sight. Eddie was tall like all the Rochon men, but he’d lucked out with some recessive gene that gave him golden blond hair. He was all lean muscle and had aristocratic features that got him his fair share of teasing from his more burly bearded kin.
    “She’s not awake?” Tanner asked, concerned. He had hoped she’d be awake by now and giving all her information to the hospital staff. Her still being out also meant that he couldn’t question her.
    “No, I’m not too concerned. I think her body is just protecting itself. We did a CAT scan, and although there is a hematoma under her skull, it’s not getting any bigger. We’ll keep an eye on it and can hopefully avoid having to drill a hole in her head.” Eddie said this with almost a gleeful look in his eye.
    He wasn’t wishing the worst for the woman. Tanner knew that Eddie usually spent his time dealing with cuts, breaks, and often crushing injuries that came from the logging accidents. Being smashed by a tree was not something most people lived through. Outside of normal illnesses and the occasional car accident or hiking injury, Eddie rarely got to practice his excellent surgical skills. For a small town, they were state of the art when it came to medical equipment and funding. Granted it was the Rochon name that was stamped on every surface of the hospital.
    “A hole in her head?” Tanner couldn’t help but frown at his cousin.
    “To relieve the pressure,” Eddie explained. “I think now that we have slowly raised her body temperature, she should wake up any time. She’s pretty, huh?”
    “Keep your eyes to yourself,” Tanner said with a growl. He wasn’t sure why he said that, but he felt compelled to.
    “What, just cause you found her, you get to keep her? I don’t think that’s how it works, cuz.” Eddie laughed.
    “No,