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only meet yesterday. I… Argh! I have to go. What am I going to do now? I’m going to have to find another trainer that’s for…”
    She stared up at him as a rumbling interrupted her ranting. Brian watched her with eyes she would swear flashed a darker blue and glowed. She moved her hands to cover her stomach and a grizzly bear growl come out of his mouth as he started to grow. Susie jumped, almost falling, but quick as lightning he reached out and saved her, pulling her back to him.
    Terrified, she wanted to scream but nothing would come out. Speechless, Susie stared at Brian, who looked normal again. Had she imagined it? She would swear he grew in height, and mass, and there was no doubt his eyes glowed. They were still glowing. Oh shit . She struggled to get free. “Let me go, please. I won’t tell anyone. I didn’t, haven’t seen anything.” His massive hands grabbed her face and she screamed as she fought to get away.
    A whine escaped his lips. “I didn’t want you to see this now. I wanted to give you some time to get to know me. You have nothing to worry about. I would never hurt you. Susie, you are the safest person in the world when you’re with me. I promise you’re safe.”
    She stopped partly to listen to him and also because he was so strong she couldn’t get anywhere. Susie supposed that if he’d wanted her dead, he’d had plenty of chances.
    “Fine. What do you want from me?” Oh God. An honest-to-God shifter held her in his arms. She’d read tons of books on shifters, werecreatures, and so on. She had even written about them in her own books. Susie had thought them mythical beings, fantasies of lonely women like her, and here she was right now with a hunk straight out of her books and she’d just asked him what he wanted. Groaning, she watched him raise his eyebrow.
    “Ah, besides you?”
    His grip loosened on her and he pulled her closer. He stroked her hair. “Susie, you are very special to me.”
    She snorted and his hand paused for a moment before he continued, “As you can see, I’m not human.”
    “No shit, Sherlock,” Susie answered.
    He pushed her back and glared at her. “Are you going to let me explain?”
    She stared at his gorgeous eyes, the perfect olive skin, and the most kissable lips she’d ever seen and sighed. “All right, all right you can talk, but I just want to add I feel like an idiot for not noticing straight away. I mean you are way too good looking.”
    He chuckled and kissed her forehead. “Oh, Susie, I can see I’m going to have my hands full with you.” She raised her eyebrow and started to talk, but his finger over her mouth stopped her. “My turn, remember?”
    She nodded and he pulled her closer.
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    Brian took a deep breath of her honey and mango scent before he tried to explain everything. “You’re my mate. I am a bear shifter, a grizzly bear. My grandparents moved from America to Australia one hundred and fifty years ago. There are quite a few different shifters. We don’t have the same numbers as humans, because to have shifter children you have to have them with your true mate or a shifter of the same kind. Not many settle just so they can have kids. Most wait for their true mate, their soul mate.”
    He looked down at her and could see all the questions in her eyes so he tried to explain best he could. “Susie, I know you are my true mate. I could smell you yesterday as soon as I entered the office.”
    Her elbow ploughed into his chest and she growled out, “Are you saying I smell?”
    “No, honey, you smell like heaven to me. We recognise our mates from their smell, and I was also attracted to you instantly even though you’re not my usual type. I usually only date models or women who could model.”
    This time he wasn’t prepared for the punch she threw at him or the knee she thrust into his cock as she got off his lap and grabbed her tattered clothes. “Okay, I have heard enough. I’m out of here, and I don’t care who