Page 10 of Bound to Two Bears

So did we.

Jared turned back just as their cabin disappeared from view.

“Plus, we need to finish up and get the night crew prepped,” Royce said. He looked over his shoulder. “Think we can pull someone to cover the desk this weekend?”

“Paul maybe? Since there’s no tour.”

“He hates the front desk and threatened to quit last time we put him in there,” Royce said.

“Toss some of that extra cash his way. It’s worth it.”Carson’s worth it.

Royce murmured in agreement. “We give Carson a wide berth tonight.”

“Is that an order?”

Royce glared over his shoulder. “You know we should.”

“You know, just because you’re going to be the alpha one day doesn’t mean you get to make all of the rules. We’re in this together. We’rebothhis mates.”

Royce turned his head to the side. “Lower your voice. A human could hear you.”

“All I said wasalphaandmate. No human would know what that means. You sayinghumanwould likely be more telling than what I said.”

Royce growled under his breath.

“And you still haven’t acknowledged what I said,” Jared snapped.

Royce shook his head. “We are in this together.”

“So act like it!”Jared roared, repeating what Royce had yelled at him earlier that afternoon.

Royce slammed on the brake and spun in the seat to meet Jared’s gaze. “All I did was suggest we leave him be for the evening.”

“You didn’t suggest. You commanded. Just like everything else here in this business we both own. I’m tired of feeling like your employee and not your partner.”

“I know you’re my partner.In everything,”Royce said.

“Yet we’re always at odds, it seems.”

Royce sighed. “Okay, so what do you think we should do tonight? He was skittish and suspicious.”

“Well, putting him in our cabin when he knew damned well it wasn’t the place he’d signed up for didn’t help.”

Royce grinned. “It’s filled with our scent, Jared.”

Jared scoffed, chuckling.

“And I’d already locked up our playroom earlier this morning. I had Fen in there today to clean and I didn’t need him wandering in.”

“My God, I’d have loved to see his face if he had,” Jared said with a wicked grin.

“If anyone knew what we were doing, we could get into trouble,” Royce murmured.

Bear will not lie with bear.

It was a tenet of their den. Brother bears weren’t supposed to fuck one another and the only time they could was with their third between them. It’s the reason they kept separate bedrooms, even if they rarely slept in one of them.

If anyone found out, they could be exiled.

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