Blackblood Bear (A Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance) (The Agency Book 2) Read Online Free Page A

supposed to do that. Besides, if that didn’t happen, then we wouldn’t be able to have this amazing conversation.”
    This brought a smile to the woman’s face.
    Score one for Justin and his ability to talk so much until he says the right thing!
    “Perhaps,” she admitted coyly, then retreated to the sidewalk as he removed the door from traffic.
    “Besides,” he told her as he easily set it down against the nearby building. “It’s hard to see it coming when one moment it’s attached to the vehicle next to you, and the next it’s flying at you.”
    “So, what, it just sort of fell off the vehicle?” she asked skeptically, looking over the damage to his bike, her reddish-brown hair falling over her shoulder.
    “Uh,” he said awkwardly. “More like someone kicked it at me.”
    Her eyebrows—a much darker shade of brown, indicating that her hair wasn’t natural—shot up this time. “Someone kicked it off their vehicle and at you? How is that possible, and on top of that, why ?”
    Justin looked embarrassed. He couldn’t tell her the truth about the why. He could, however, tell her the truth about the how.
    “This is how,” he said, bending down with a grunt, lifting his motorcycle clear off the ground, and walking it across the sidewalk to set it against a building. Thankfully not much had actually broken off the bike. There was plenty of deformed metal, but it was all still attached for the most part.
    “Did you just lift that whole thing by yourself?” she asked, eyes wide as she walked over to it. “This is a big boy too. It’s gotta have what, two hundred, two hundred and twenty ponies?” she asked, eyeballing the engine.
    “Two-ten,” he replied, caught off guard by her sudden display of mechanical knowledge. “And yes, I did lift it. Part of the whole shifter thing. You know, change into an animal, heal faster, super strong, blah blah blah.” He tried not to make it out to be a big deal as he looked at her again. Really looked at her.
    She was gorgeous, standing perhaps five foot six, and clad in a layer of muscle. That brought with it a few extra curves that she wasn’t even aware she possessed judging by the way she held herself. If she was aware, she didn’t realize that they made her drop-dead gorgeous in his eyes. As she looked over her shoulder from her inspection of the bike, he realized her face looked almost fragile compared to her body. High upswept cheekbones gave her an almost elfin appearance, contrasting the obvious power in her body with very dainty and feminine facial features.
    He was hooked, even before she bent over, giving him a full view of her exquisite rear. Justin swallowed nervously, flexing his abs and legs as hard as he could to draw blood away from between his legs, where it had suddenly decided to pool with a ferocity that surprised him.
    Inside his bear roared, eager to move forward, the practically feral animal screaming at him to fulfill his primal nature.
    Knowing that he was in public, Justin mentally forced his bear down, not wanting to make a fool of himself, or even worse, drive this very interesting woman away.
    Desperate to think of an idea, any idea, to talk to her more, he looked at the shops on the street. As if fate were trying to tell him something, two storefronts down to his right was a big-chain coffee shop.
    Thank you, he thought, to whomever or whatever was looking over him.
    “Hey,” he said, then stopped.
    She stood up, turning back to face him. “Yes?”
    He froze.
    The beautiful woman frowned slightly. “What?” she asked, though there wasn’t any vehemence in her voice.
    “I was just wondering,” he said, at last managing to force the words out.
    She waited a second, then prompted him one more time. “Wondering what?”
    Justin smiled and shook his head. “Did you want to get a coffee?” he blurted out, trying to make it seem smooth.
    The woman hesitated, and Justin felt his luck fall away.
     
     

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