Her face goes still, and she looks me up and down. There I am, standing buck-naked, a huge boner jutting out in front of me.

“Later,” she says, and she flicks the covers off of her.

A growl breaks from my throat as she displays her gorgeous naked body to my hungry gaze.

I don’t need a second invitation. I spread her sweet thighs and dive right in.

Before long, she’s crying out my name, while her tight little pussy is gripping my throbbing cock like it was made for me.

* * *

An hour later,I’m sitting at my old wooden table, between the couch and the kitchenette, and Jessica is cooking us breakfast at my stove. Wearing nothing but the T-shirt I gave her last night, and the panties she was wearing yesterday, which have been drying by the fire. They’re pink with little bows at the sides, and every time I look at them, my cock gets so hard it hurts.

I watch the muscles in her lovely thighs flex as she stretches up to grab some sugar from an overhead cupboard. She seems at home here. I feel like she’s always been here. Like there was never a time when this little cabin wasn’t ours.

Ours.

The word warms me all the way through.

Yesterday I thought I’d always be alone. Today, I’m living here with my mate.

She hums as she stirs some pancake batter in a skillet. I was planning to make breakfast, but she insisted.After all I’ve done for her, she said. Poor girl; she has no idea that this was the absolute least I’d do for my princess.

She comes over, stepping lightly with her long, slender legs, and puts two plates, piled with pancakes, on the table.

One of the stacks is massive, and the other is about the right size for a tiny human.

“I wasn’t sure how much you need to eat,” she says.

“Oh, this is perfect,” I say with a grin.

Her smooth forehead furrows. “Do you need to like, eat for two, because you’ve got a bear inside you?”

I laugh. “Yeah, I guess so. I’ve always had a big appetite—” I break off, worried she’ll be repulsed by the thought.

“I think that’s real sexy,” she says in a shy voice, her hand skimming my shoulder as she slides into her seat.

My beast unfurls inside me. She’s incredible, my girl. In less than a day, she’s not only come to terms with the fact that I’m half animal. Shelikesit.

“Is your bear happy that we… you know?” She’s looking down now, picking at her food, but her cheeks are bright pink.

“Oh, you have no idea,” I growl.

Her dark eyelashes flutter. “So, are we, like dating now?”

A laugh of surprise bursts out of me. “Dating? We’re together. You’re my mate. Don’t you know that?”

“I-I wasn’t sure if you meant just for the night.”

“You would’ve mated me for just one night?”

She looks confused. “I mean, that wasn’t what I wanted. But I couldn’t stop myself. I just wanted to be with you. When I woke up this morning, I was worried it was just some kind of fantasy, because we were trapped here by the storm and all.” Her words come out in a rush, and tenderness washes through me.

“Oh, honeybun. You’re mine. I knew the second I laid eyes on you. It happened just like my grandad told me it would. And every moment I’ve spent with you has just made the feeling stronger. I want to hold you in my arms forever. Keep you here in my cabin and fill your belly with my young.”

I see her throat constrict as she swallows hard.

“I know that’s a lot to hear right now.”