Page 10 of The Bear's Forever Mat
“Penises. Many penis. Penii? Cooper, every one of those drips is X-rated.”
He froze. Blinked.
Her cheeks flared hotter as his gaze drifted over the half dozen tube-shaped objects. Melting had caused water to run down toward the bottom of each drip where it had cooled and gathered to create a wider “head.” Veins and ridges were there as well, and if it weren’t so terrible, it would be astonishing how lifelike they were.
Lifelike and very impressive. Ahem.
Cooper cleared his throat. “Oh.Oh, I see.”
So dignified. So mature.
Until he threw back his head and howled with laughter. Which set off Amber and her friends again.
It took a bit until he got himself under control, and his smile was still wide when he offered her a wink. “I’ll deal with this. If you see a chance to fix things, take it.”
She sort of pulled herself together. “Sure.”
Alex had managed to pull Lara to her feet but had yet to get a straight answer out of her about why they were laughing.
Cooper called to his brother. “Nice job, bro. You might want to help the team check the base over here, though. Looks as if there’s a fault line developing.”
“Where?” Alex left Lara’s side and moved toward Cooper quickly.
Amber might have imagined it, but it looked as if Lara shot out a foot and suddenly Alex was flying through the air, his feet slipping out from under him. He was aimed straight at the ice sculpture and disaster seemed imminent.
Cooper caught hold of his sleeve and tugged, changing his direction in midflight. Instead of wiping out the entire piece of pizza, Alex’s head neatly grazed the long line of drips, sending the erotically shaped objects crashing to the ground where most of them shattered into non-pornographic ice cubes.
Amber slipped nonchalantly toward the few intact ones and cautiously kicked them aside into the snow. Disaster averted.
“You make a good team,” Kaylee said as the bell rang to signal the end of the contest.
“I had no idea what was going on until Kaylee told me.” James wore a slight smirk as he cuddled his mate close. “Too bad all of them got broken.”
“James.” Kaylee sounded shocked.
Amber twisted her face downward to hide her burning cheeks, but she grinned as well. There had been something more than amusement in Cooper’s eyes. There’d been desire.
Desire for her.
Yes, as the afternoon progressed and she shared time with the Borealis family, Amber felt a strange sense of contentment fall over her. It wasn’t going to be simple, but she knew enough to make her move at the right time.
And the right time was going to be when Cooper most needed her to be there for him.
Whether he put it in his Very Important Plans list, or not.
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The dull itch at the back of his neck was growing stronger by the day.
Cooper had ignored the sensation for nearly a week before acknowledging what it was. The mating fever was close to arriving, and he was running out of time.
His desk chair was angled perfectly so that with his office door open, a mirrorlike reflection appeared in the inset glass. Every time Amber walked from the filing cabinet and back to her desk, Cooper got an unhindered view of the journey. She’d move decisively, disappear for a moment, then return and sit.
Then she’d cross her legs and, a few moments later, uncross them—
One day the uncrossing was going to kill him.
