Finally, Artemis slows to a trot as we approach the dense trees. My heart is pounding. I’m so sweaty. Fuck, I nearly died because of this lunatic horse.
“What is wrong with you?”
She just knickers as she slowly wanders along the edge of the forest, going wherever the fuck she wants.
I feel eyes on me from somewhere among the trees and I gasp when I spot a huge grizzly bear inside. The bear is even bigger than Cameron’s bear and it’s glaring at me like he’s daring me to enter his territory.
“Let’s go,” I whisper to Artemis (who must be hard of hearing). “There’s a bear in there. Go the other way. No! What are you doing?! Look! Bear! Fuck you, you stupid horse! You’re going to get me eaten!”
With a roar, the grizzly comes charging out, growling and snarling menacingly at us. He’s fucking enormous. My hands start shaking as I look for somewhere to flee to, but there’s nowhere to go.
The grizzly’s eyes are locked on me as stalks forward on huge paws that could crush me in an instant. His head is low. The hair on his back standing straight up. Teeth out. Murderous look in his eyes. He’s the scariest thing I’ve ever seen. Even scarier than the three guys who attacked me earlier.
I squeeze my thighs together, but Artemis doesn’t move. She’s either frozen with fear or too stupid to know that now is the time to stretch those legs.
“Move! Come on, you stupid horse!”
The heavy thundering of hooves fills the air and I turn just in time to see Cameron charging in on his horse. He stands on his back and then leaps into the air, exploding into his grizzly bear before he hits the ground. His jeans explode into pieces away from him as he lands between me and the deadly bear with a territorial growl.
I can feel the protectiveness flowing off of Cameron’s bear and wrapping around me like a warm comforting blanket. The fear subsides even though the danger doesn’t. Somehow, I know he won’t let anything hurt me.
My guardian bear stands on his hind legs and lets out a roar so loud that I have to cover my ears. The bear from the forest is larger but he reluctantly slinks back into the forest with a huff and disappears. The tops of the trees shake as he goes.
I don’t think I’ve taken a breath until Cameron phases back and turns to look at me. He’s naked once again, and once again, I don’t mind.
He picks up his shredded jeans and then tosses them back down with a curse. I’m not cursing. I’m too busy staring.
“It’s okay,” I say with my cheeks blushing hot. “I just won’t look.”
“You can look all you want,” he says as he jumps back on his horse. “It’s yours.”
He rides off with his bare ass bouncing on the saddle, leaving me standing there in shock. So many questions are running through my head.
What the hell was with that bear?
Why is my horse trying to get me killed?
But most importantly, what did Cameron mean when he said that big cock was mine?
I squeeze my horse again and she takes off running, following the two giant stallions—the brown horse and Cameron.
This time I don’t mind her moving fast.Chapter SixWillow“That was your brother?!” I ask in shock as we ride side by side.
I’m trying to focus on Cameron’s face and not on his long cock bouncing around with his horse’s every step.
“Yeah,” he says with a sigh. “Adrian has always been a little recluse.”
“Recluse? Cameron, he lives in the forest.”
“All right, maybe primal is the better word. His bear is on the feral side. He’s not very civilized yet.”
I remember the way the grizzly bear’s ferocious eyes were locked on me and I shiver. I quickly check over my shoulder to make sure he’s not following us. We’re good.
“Adrian is the middle brother,” Cameron explains as I try not to look down at his lap. “I’m thirty-two, Adrian is twenty-nine, and Julian is twenty-seven. That’s the three Bowen brothers.”
“What about Logan? Isn’t he a brother too?”
“He is,” Cameron says with a nod. “Probably the best one of us too. He’s thirty-two like me. My parents adopted him when his dad died.”
“And what about mates?” I ask nonchalantly, casually, not jealous at all.
“Adrian doesn’t have one. We’re hoping that if he ever finds his girl it will calm him down. That it will civilize him.”
“Let’s hope he doesn’t eat her first.”
Cameron laughs. A deep belly laugh that makes me smile.
“Yeah, let’s hope for that. Though, I don’t think he’ll ever leave the forest to try and find her.”
I pity the poor girl who has him as her mate. I hope she’s a tough one and that she can run really fast.
“What about the other guys? Do they have mates?”