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about it while we hit your house, the store, and get food. You might change your mind before we get out to my place.” Please don’t change your mind; please don’t change your mind.
    “As long as you don’t steal the covers I think you and I will get along smashingly. Oh, and I talk in my sleep, sometimes walk, just ignore me. I will eventually find my way back to bed, I’m sure.” There was that smile again. Goddamn, that smile lit up parts of him he’d forgotten he had.
    “I’m sure you will,” he muttered. Not that his bear would let her out of the bed. At least, that was his gut feeling on the subject. Waving her to precede him from the kitchen, he went to let the deputy know the plan for the night while she turned lights off.
    He stepped out onto the sidewalk and watched her while she locked the shop up. Then he slipped his arm around her waist and led her up the street to the sheriff’s office. It was where he’d left his truck that morning when things hadn’t exactly gone according to plan.
     

Chapter Four
     
    Alaska couldn’t believe that she had actually offered to sleep with him. They barely knew each other but there was something there. There was something between them but she didn’t know what it was. She was shocked by how she felt around him, especially since he was a bear. She was terrified of bears and had been since her whole coven was wiped out so many years earlier. Each time he touched her, each time he spoke to her, she felt herself slipping deeper into his charms.
    At her place, he helped her to pack what she needed. She packed enough clothes to last a week. She hoped that would be enough, because she wasn’t so sure she’d be able to stay with him for more than a week without falling for him, then getting them both naked.
    “So, where do you live?” she asked Harley when they got into his vehicle.
    “Outside town, lots of space and the forest around me. I know, I’m totally advertising what I am.” He got them moving from her house back toward the center of town and the biggest grocery store Shifter Falls had to offer. “But I like the quiet and the fact I have no neighbors to whine when I feel like walking around in the buff during my days off.”
    She knew her mouth was hanging open when he said that and quickly gathered her wits. “Wait, you, huh?” Okay, so he might have broken her. Just the thought of him walking around in nothing but the skin on his body had her pussy dripping. Son of a whore, it made her wet, needy, and horny as hell. “I don’t know what to say to that.” She panted the words instead of speaking them normally.
    He gave her a huge smile. “No need to say anything. I promise to keep pants on while you’re there. Wouldn’t want to send you screaming for the hills or anything. I think even that might be noticed by the few folks that live out that way.” Turning on the radio but keeping the sound low, he began to hum along with the song playing while keeping one eye on the road and the other on the mirrors.
    She didn’t say anything for a long time. She finally said, very quietly, “And if I didn’t mind the nudity?” Then she shook her head. “I have a feeling that you would break my heart if you tried.” She didn’t want to think about how many women had been in his bed.
    “I’d never break your heart, sweetheart.” Pulling into a spot out front of the store, he shut off the engine and turned to look at her. “The nudity is negotiable. Tit for tat, you might say.” With a smirk, he slid from the truck, whistling, and made his way around to open her door for her.
    “Yeah, well, the first laugh you give me because I’m naked…” she warned. “And does that mean you’ll tell me about whatever this is that’s going on between us?” She knew he knew something and it was driving her nuts. There was definitely something between them. She wondered if it was what Phi had told her about. Surely she would know if he was her mate, though.