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a pine. The forest smelled resiny and humid. There was a distant rumble of thunder.
    And then a closer rumble. Something else.
    Something else.
    She opened her eyes.
    Her heart seized up in her chest. Her skin went hot with fresh, thick sweat.
    Not three meters away there was an adult male grizzly bear staring at her.
    Where had he come from? She hadn’t heard anything, there’d been so sign. She knew this was grizzly country, she knew that, but she hadn’t even heard a twig break or a squirrel chatter.
    He was pushing through the undergrowth, coming towards her. He was enormous, the biggest she’d ever seen, five feet six, five feet seven at the shoulder, easily. Huge paws, hump-shouldered, thick-furred, blazing eyes.
    Her instinct was to run, plain and simple. It was to turn tail and book it down the mountainside, and then to race all the way back to Calgary, or, if that wasn’t going to work (and it wasn’t), then her instinct was to climb a tree. But grizzlies could run at 35 miles per hour, and they could climb trees, too.
    It was such a huge animal, and it was so obvious that its target was her: it was coming straight for her, staring, growling. The cold, aggressive glint in its eyes made sour ice of her stomach. She could see its big claws pressing into the dirt and smell its earthy, furry scent. It was going to hurt her, wasn’t it?
    Bear spray.
    Bear spray. Bear spray. Of course.
    “Hey, bear,” she said as calmly as she could manage, talking to it coolly like the safety books told you to do. “Hey, bear. Easy, now. Easy. Don’t mind this canister. Don’t mind the tag popping. I’ve got something for you, since you wanna start a fight. Just a little something.”
     

Chapter Four
    Clearing out a shed was the last thing Chance wanted to do, especially with the Season being so close and fogging up his mind. But Jason’s word was law, and so here he was, clearing out a shed.
    There were a lot of things in there that could serve as weapons, things he kept carrying in to Gentian and Egan’s mudroom and stacking there. Shovels, walking sticks, ropes, a hacksaw, a foldable saw, a crowbar, flares, a lantern and oil and matches, an ancient sander. All things you would not want a hostile creature to get their hands on.
    It was hard to stay focused, especially with memories of his dream flitting through his head: a beautiful young woman, curvy as a fertility goddess, soft and pale and blemishless with round, powerful thighs and high, full breasts and thick, blond hair—
    Fuck. He had to adjust himself; his thick cock was pressing insistently against his jeans. Where do I get me one of those girls?
    “Chance?”
    He almost jumped. “Whoa! Gentian?”
    “I brought you some food.” Gentian was a kind, sweet lady with long, greying brown hair. “Acorn cakes and scrambled brown eggs. I put on some chicory as garnish, but if you don’t like—”
    “Oh no, that’s wonderful, thanks.” He was holding a random lid in front of his crotch, counting the seconds until his hard-on went down. “You didn’t have to.”
    “Well, of course I did,” she said warmly, pleased he liked her spread. “I can’t let you go hungry out here while me and my man take a meal inside. And you replacing our lock and everything.”
    “Thanks, really.”
    “In fact, would you like to come inside and sit with us? It’s looking like rain. I’m sure it will get cold out here.”
    He considered that. The sky was getting awfully dark and angry looking. Spring storms in the Rockies were ferocious as tigers.
    “Well, I feel bad saying yes when you brought the plate outside already, but I think I’ll take you up on that.” There was already the soft, sprinkling hush of rain starting further down in the valley. “Thank you.”
    “Not at all! It’s always nice to have a visitor. Especially a young person. We’ve missed ours ever since they went West.”
    It was the natural order of things for some of the clan’s children to get