Captivated By Wild Bear Shifter

  A Rogue Shifters And Hunters

  Brittany White

  Copyright © 2023 by Brittany White

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  Contents

  1. Dean

  2. Alexis

  3. Dean

  4. Alexis

  5. Dean

  6. Alexis

  7. Dean

  8. Alexis

  9. Dean

  10. Alexis

  11. Dean

  12. Alexis

  13. Dean

  14. Alexis

  15. Dean

  16. Alexis

  17. Dean

  18. Alexis

  19. Dean

  20. Alexis

  21. Dean

  22. Alexis

  23. Dean

  24. Alexis

  25. Dean

  26. Alexis

  27. Alexis

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  1

  Dean

  Dean finished packing the rest of his clothes and toiletries. He’d had enough of Ivy Spring, Colorado. He had followed his childhood friend, Lucy, here, hoping to win her heart and convince her to go through the mating ceremony with him after he became alpha of his bear shifter clan. However, she had fallen in love with his best friend, Micah, who was going to be the alpha of their wolf shifter clan.

  His phone rang just as he put the last of his items in his bag.

  “When are you coming home?” his father, David, demanded.

  “I’ll leave this afternoon,” Dean said. “I’m getting packed up right now.”

  “How is Micah doing?”

  Micah was gravely injured when he was shot after he, Lucy, and Dean got into an altercation with shifter hunters. There was a war happening in Ivy Springs that pitted the billionaire Faisons, owners of the Forest Resort, against all of the shifters in the area, including tourists. They routinely hired hunters to track down and kill any shifter, or even suspected shifter, that they could find.

  “He’s doing a lot better, thanks to Lucy. She took care of him. He was strong enough to go talk to the dragon king in the shifter world to report on what happened, although he was exhausted and hurting when he got back. I think that he is coming back tomorrow.”

  “I thought the dragon king and shifter world were myths,” his father said.

  “So did I, but apparently, they are real. Micah visited the shifter world and met Draco, the dragon king.”

  “I’m kind of envious,” David said.

  “Me, too. I was there as much as Micah was, and I could have made the trip a lot easier, but I guess Micah is our designated spokesman. I’m not mad, though. After what Micah went through, he deserved the dubious honor. I would hate to be the one to tell Draco what happened and face his possible wrath.”

  “There is that,” David said.

  His father started to say something else, but the door to his room burst open and a blond hurricane blew in.

  “Dad, I have to go.”

  Dean hung up and looked at Alexis Faison, one of the four billionaires, whose family had waged war against the shifters for many generations.

  “What in the hell are you doing in my room?” Dean asked.

  “I heard you talking. You and your friends are shifters. You guys killed the hunters,” she hollered. “I’m going to tell everyone, and you’ll all be dead.”

  Dean closed the door behind her and shifted his hand into a bear paw with very sharp claws.

  He put it on her neck and said, “You aren’t going to tell anyone anything.”

  His mind raced a million miles an hour. He had to figure out how to keep Alexis quiet long enough for him, Micah, and Lucy to get out of town. Suddenly, an idea came to him. It wasn’t a good idea, but it was an idea.

  Pointing to the desk, he said, “Sit.”

  “No,” she said.

  Lightly scratching her neck with his claw, he said, “I told you to sit.”

  She glared at him as she walked over to the desk and sat in the chair.

  “Take out some paper and write a note to your brothers saying that you’ve fallen in love with a man and you’re leaving town with him.”

  “And if I don’t?”

  “Then you won’t leave this room. I abhor hurting women, but if it comes between you and my friends and me, you will be the sacrifice,” Dean said, his voice low and menacing.

  She looked up at him, the fear evident in her eyes. He hated terrifying her, but he had to protect himself and the others.

  Alexis pulled some paper and a pen out of the desk drawer and wrote,

  Hey brothers,

  I am so happy that I finally found the one. He loves me back. I’m going to go with him to his home. Don’t worry about me. I’m finally not going to be alone in this world anymore. I’ll be in touch later.

  Much love,

  Alexis

  Dean looked for anything in the note that might give her brothers any clue as to what was happening, but he didn’t see anything. Micah had told him that Alexis fell in love easily, so this probably wouldn’t come as a shock to them.

  “How are you going to get me out of here? I’m not going to go willingly. I will kick and scream my lungs out. You’ll be killed before you reach the door.”

  “Do you think so?” Dean asked.

  She glared at him with a look that was half defiance and half fear.

  He shifted his bear paw back into a human hand and touched both sides of her head. He focused hard, willing her to go into a deep sleep. Her eyes fluttered and her legs buckled. He caught her before she hit the floor and laid her on the bed.

  Taking a deep breath he asked, “Dean, what in the hell are you thinking?”

  He could leave her there, asleep in the bed, but she might wake up before Lucy and Micah could get out of town. Plus, if she told her brothers who killed the hunters, then more hunters would follow them to Montana.

  “This was the best option,” he said aloud.

  Dean opened his computer and checked out online. He looked around the room one more time and was satisfied that he had packed everything.

  After rummaging through Alexis’ purse, he pulled out her cell phone and turned it off. He covered Alexis’ body with his long trench coat, put Alexis’ purse in his bag, and hoisted it over his shoulder. Then, he picked her up, draping her over his other shoulder, as though he was just carrying his coat out instead of wearing it.

  The hallway was clear. With relief, Dean made it to the back entrance without running into anyone. He had parked his truck behind the resort, just because the spaces were bigger. He was glad of that now.

  Carefully, he put Alexis in the passenger seat and buckled her up. Then, they were on their way.

  Dean called Lucy and explained what happened. As expected, she told him that what he did was idiotic and was going to cause them a lot of trouble. He told her he didn’t see any other way to fix the situation.

  He didn’t bother calling Micah, because he knew that Lucy would tell him everything, and Dean didn’t want to hear it.

  Needless to say, the drive back was nerve wracking. Glancing into his rearview mirror every five minutes, he expected to see blue lights in the background at any minute. There was no way that he could explain what was going on. Just across the Wyoming state line, he saw the feared blue lights flashing in his mirror. His throat closed and his heart beat a million miles an hour. His stomach clenched painfully.

  Easing the truck over, he waited for the state police to haul him to jail. Lightheaded with relief, Dean watched as the car whizzed past him, in pursuit of someone else.

  He stopped somewhere in Wyoming and smashed Alexis’ phone into a million pieces and put it in the dumpster. While he was certain that it couldn’t be traced while the phone was off, he didn’t want to take any chances. He also didn’t want her to try to use it to get rescued.

  Heaving a huge sigh of relief when he crossed into Montana, he rubbed his eyes. The eleven-hour drive, with minimal breaks, had been exhausting.

  Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, he arrived at a primitive cabin, hidden in the forest on top of the mountain. Only three other people knew of its existence, so they would be safe.

  Dean went inside and was pleased to see that the wood box was full. He started a fire in the old wood stove and went back outside, carrying in his bag and his hostage.

  He laid her gently on the couch and went outside to start the generator that supplied a little bit of electricity to the cabin. He flipped on the lights and sat in the recliner he had brought up to the cabin and waited.

  Alexis groaned and twitched a little, letting him know that she was waking up. Her eyes were wide and wild when she sat up and stared at him.

  “Where am I?” she screamed. “You had better take me home right now, or you’ll regret it.”

  He opened his mouth to talk, but she screamed at hi

m.

  “You monster. You bastard. You’re going to die for this. My brothers will send every hunter in the world to take you out and your entire family. You had better let me go.”

  “No.”

  The simple word spoken in a low voice seemed to momentarily take the wind out of her sails.

  “My brothers will kill you when they find me here,” she said, through gritted teeth.

  “First, I doubt that they ever would. This cabin is hidden on top of a mountain, and no one knows where it’s at. If they, by some remote chance, did get close, I guess you would just have to disappear so there was no one to rescue,” Dean told her, staring into her eyes and grinning evilly. “That would actually solve a whole other problem for me.”

  Her mouth opened and then closed.

  “You’ll be staying here in the cabin for the foreseeable future. I’ll have to be gone some, so you’ll be alone. You can scream all you want, but the nearest people around who might hear you are about seventy-five miles away. You can try to escape, but the nearest highway is fifty miles away. You’d either freeze to death before then or end up as dinner for some animal.”

  She shivered and her eyes opened wide. Alexis was stuck and she knew it. Slowly, she looked around the cabin, taking in the primitive conditions. The only thing that wasn’t primitive was the couch and recliner that Dean had indulged in. The sink had a hand pump that only spewed out cold water. There was no stove, microwave, or other appliances.

  Dean wished that he could have taken a picture of her face as she looked around. She looked as though she had just stepped in a huge pile of warm, fresh cow manure ripe with odor, with her thousand-dollar shoes.

  “Now that’s settled, I’m hungry.”

  Rummaging through the cabinets, he pulled out a pot and a couple cans of beef stew. He could feel Alexis’ eyes on him as he opened them, dumped them into the pan, and put the pan on the wood burning stove.

  “Are you hungry?” he asked.

  She just stared at him with pure hatred in his eyes. He couldn’t really blame her. He would hate him, too, if he was her.

  “I need the restroom,” she said.

  Smiling to himself, he thought, This is going to be fun.

  He pulled a roll of toilet paper out of the cabinet.

  “You might want to put on my coat. It’s cold out there.”

  “What do you mean?”

  “The outhouse is out back,” he said. “I’ll show you the way.”

  “Outhouse? Out back?”

  “Yep.”

  Panic crossed her face, which seemed to turn pale under the gobs of makeup that she was wearing.

  She looked at the toilet paper in his hand, questioningly.

  “I can’t leave the toilet paper in the outhouse. The rats like to make nests out of it, and I’m out of old catalogues to use as back up.”

  Alexis’ knees buckled and Dean jumped to catch her before she fell to the floor. She angrily pushed him away and regained her balance.

  He grabbed a pair of his sister’s snow boots and some socks that she had stored at the cabin.

  “I’m not wearing those,” she said. “They are used.”

  “I’m not sure how you’re going to walk in the snow with your high heels, but if you insist.”

  Dean walked with her to the outhouse, listening to her curse the entire way. She even said a few things that he had never heard come out of a woman’s mouth before, and a couple of women in his clan belonged to a motorcycle club.

  Chuckling to himself, he thought, The princess is going to have a rude awakening here.

  2

  Alexis

  “I hate him. I hate this. This must be hell,” Alexis said as she eyed the wooden bench with a hole in it that served as a toilet.

  “I’m going to get a fucking splinter in my ass,” she groaned as she gingerly sat down.

  She shivered as the cold air surrounded her in an icy shroud.

  The pee is never going to come out at this rate. It’s frozen inside of my bladder.

  Finally, relief came.

  Alexis vaguely wondered what happened when the hole was completely full, and then decided that she really didn’t want to know.

  The wind drove icy knives into her as she stepped outside of the outhouse. Dean was standing there, in just a sweater, with his arms crossed.

  How is he not frozen? It must be that shifter blood.

  Her eyes darted around. There was no sign of another human being. The cabin and small shed next to it were surrounded by trees. It appeared that Dean had told her the truth when he said that there was nothing and no one around for miles and miles.

  Begrudgingly, she stumbled through the snow back to the cabin. Her feet were blocks of ice and were numb. She realized that she should have taken Dean up on his offer of socks and snow boots.

  Dean got down two bowls out of the cabinet.

  “Are you hungry?”

  Alexis just stared at him for a minute and then shook her head. She never ate anything that came out of a can like that. On top of that, her stomach was tied up in so many knots that she didn’t think that she could swallow anything and keep it down.

  Leaning back on the couch, she closed her eyes and wondered how in the world she had managed to get herself in this mess. Her mind rewound to the day before.

  She remembered that she had been in a good mood. She and her friends were having a get together to drink wine, eat popcorn, and watch movies at Tina’s house. Tina had a home theater room, complete with one of the really large white screens and theater seating.

  As she walked by one of the rooms, she’d heard a deep voice say, “Dragon king and shifter world.” Then, she heard, “hunters.”

  Alexis remembered her brothers, Raf and Xavier, talking about some hunters who went up on the mountain and never returned. They had sent out a search party, but they weren’t found. There was no sign of them anywhere. None of the cameras found had any useful pictures or videos.

  Her blood ran cold, and fury exploded inside of her as she figured out that a shifter was staying at her resort and that the shifter had likely killed the hunters. Without even thinking, she burst into the room to see the tall handsome man she had been flirting with at the resort’s bar.

  He looked at her in surprise, as she shrieked at him that she was going to have him and his friends killed.

  The look he gave her made her heart stop. Her lungs stopped working as she struggled to draw in a breath. She knew that she had made a terrible mistake. Her mind whirled like a tornado, trying to figure out a way to just back out of the room and go for help.

  Dean was faster than her and she almost pissed herself when he shut the door and his hand became a bear claw.

  She racked her brain, frantically, trying to figure out some way to let her brothers know that she was in trouble. She had read about people who did that, like signing the paper with a nickname, or including a special word. Even if she had included something weird, like “save some Canadian bacon and pineapple pizza for me,” they would just think that it was her being weird. As soon as she finished the note, the world faded to black. When she woke up, she was in this rustic cabin with no appliances or anything else.

  Her first instinct was to scream at Dean and demand that he take her home. He didn’t seem to be bothered and just told her that he would put her back to sleep if she kept it up. She believed him.

  She shook her head to dispel the thoughts.

  You have to focus on right now and figure out how you are going to get out of this mess.

  “Are you sure you don’t want anything to eat?” he asked.

  “No,” she said petulantly, crossing her arms.

  “Suit yourself,” he said.

  He finished the last of the stew, then washed his plate and the pot in a sink that just had a handle that he pumped to get running water.

 

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