Billionaire Bear Shifters A Paranormal Romance Complete Series Boxset - Brittany White Page 0,3

block a lot more than most girls her age. A bear shifter mobster with his fingers in every pie? She hadn’t been worried.

Now, she was bruised and she had been kidnapped. John had kept her tied up in the trunk for the first couple hours of their drive after he’d found her. He’d only untied her after she’d promised not to run away again, and when she’d mouthed off after that, she’d been rewarded with a smack.

She shifted in the booth and stared out the window at the snowy mountains where other bears were running free, where she wanted to be running free too.

But in her mind all she saw was Rawley. He was handsome, really. He was a lot older than her. She’d seen him first in his bear form, up on his hindlegs roaring as the party-goers cheered.

There had been a lot to cheer for. He was the biggest bear Alanna had ever seen.

Later he’d shifted into human form and he’d spotted her laughing as she sat on a log next to her brother. He’d brought her a plastic cup of champagne. He was wearing a nice suit. He’d looked just like one of the humans who stayed in the fancy resorts all around Park City. He had brown eyes so light they glimmered and turned to gold.

“Hey there, beautiful. You look like you need company.”

Watch out for Rawley, Carl had said.

It probably wouldn’t have made any difference if she had.

Now she would never know, and now she had to marry him...or Alex would die.

2

Nathan

“Goddamn,” Nathan said, sighing. His laptop was kaput. The battery was shot. He’d known that, but now it wasn’t even powering up. He sat back in his designer side chair at the small dining table next to a floor to ceiling window that looked out on the glorious Black Bear Lake mountains beyond. There was nothing in his email that couldn't wait. Maintenance work orders went right to an app on his phone. Still, he hated dealing with computer stuff.

“Stupid goddamn…”

Nathan rubbed his chin, the scruff growing in rough on the pads of his fingers. He’d been flirting with growing out a beard, but he hadn’t quite decided yet. The light scruff was a good look though. He always got more looks from women when he had some scruff on him. It went with the whole sexy handyman thing, he supposed.

“You need a shave.” His little brother Eric sat down across from him with his coffee and smirked. “Actually…you know what, nevermind. It looks good like that.”

Eric Strauss was the youngest of the four Strauss brothers. He was also the concierge at Black Bear Lake Lodge where Nathan was the handyman. But they both held equal rank along with their brother Cody. It was Connor who really ran things, but they all had an equal share. They’d bought the place themselves with a chunk of the sizable Strauss family fortune. It was a life Nathan would never have predicted for himself. But he found that he loved the place and he loved running it with his brothers.

“Thanks for your approval,” Nathan said sardonically. He shoved the computer in Eric’s direction. “I need a new evil machine.”

“You mean a laptop?” Eric raised an eyebrow. “Jesus. It’s like your Amish.”

“I just bought this one and I already need a new one,” Nathan said. “What a scam.”

“It’s like five years old!”

“Exactly,” Nathan said, shrugging.

“Oh my God.” Eric chuckled. “I think you can afford it. You could afford to buy the company that makes it if you wanted to. I’ll order you a new laptop, no worries.”

“Will you set it all up?” Nathan said warily. “I dunno how to do all that shit.”

“Yeah! I’ve noticed. Sure, of course I will. And I know you haven’t backed this shit up lately, so hopefully, it’s in the cloud or I can rescue your data.”

Nathan squinted at him. “The cloud is like…you don’t mean an actual cloud, right?”

“Jesus,” Eric snorted. “You’re so Amish.”

“We’re bear shifters. We should be Amish really.”

“For a guy who wants to live without technology, you sure like the hot tub in your suite.”

“I mean that’s really just hot water,” Nathan said, grinning because he was caught out.

He had been wary of working at a place like Black Bear Lodge when Connor had first convinced them all to buy the place and run it, not because they needed the money but because it would be fun. But Nathan had just come from years of running on his own,