Laid Bear by Eve Vaughn (e books for reading .TXT) 📕

the floor. She pulled her knees to her chest and began to rock herself. This was not happening. She was stuck in a cabin with three bear-sized men who apparently liked walking around in the nude.

Was she destined to be unlucky with men?

Zora’s former neighbors thought she was crazy for uprooting her life in Covington so abruptly. She might have stayed had it not been for the lewd phone calls that started shortly after her grandmother’s death. The caller never revealed his identity, but it could be no one else but Dale. The ex she believed she’d never see again. She’d dated a handful of guys since attending college, but he was the first she believed herself to be in love with. With his charm, good looks and popularity, Zora was flattered when he’d pursued her.

Zora was honored to be his girlfriend, until she discovered him to be possessive, controlling, abusive and a cheater. He’d wreaked havoc on her self-esteem with his cutting words, which made it difficult for her to break up with him. Her grades suffered and she couldn’t concentrate in class.

With her academic future at stake, Zora had found the courage to break it off. As she tried to move on with her life and distance herself from him, he got really scary. Despite the restraining order, he stalked her mercilessly until a brutal event put him away for several years. The incident had left her shattered. Zora now wondered if she’d have been better off taking her chances with Dale finding her rather than dealing with the nightmare she’d landed herself in.

Logan took his time getting off the floor. His senses were still reeling from having her in his arms, feeling her heat, inhaling her scent and tasting her. He needed more. Had to have more. He was sorely tempted to follow her up the stairs and finish what they’d started. The past several days of having her near without being able to touch or hold her had been driving him crazy.

Who would have thought after all these years he and his cousins would find their onida at their vacation retreat? Every year he, Heath and Gavin came to what they called their little corner of the world for a month to get away from the hustle and bustle of their stressful lives. This year, however, was different because it was to be their last year coming together.

It wasn’t because they no longer needed the solitude and freedom this month-long sojourn afforded them. It was because the three of them had decided they would give up the search for a woman they could mate with in order to continue their line. Each one of them was approaching forty and they all wanted the companionship only a female could provide. They also knew that if they were to settle for a ‘regular’ woman, sharing her would be out of the question.

She wouldn’t be able to bear their seed, making it unnecessary to maintain the triad.

They’d decided after this particular trip they would each seek out a woman they found tolerable enough to settle down with. Because this land they’d built their cabin retreat on had belonged to their ancestors and held special meaning for them, bringing just anyone who’d never fully understand their nature wouldn’t seem right. It had been their plan to hold on to the land until they figured out what they wanted to do with it.

Logan had not been as eager as his cousins to capitulate so easily, wanting to wait just a little longer until they found the one who was meant to be theirs, but there was only one of him and two of them. So begrudgingly he’d agreed. Though he wanted to make the best of his vacation, his heart was heavy until nearly a week ago when Gavin came tearing into