Page 30 of Goldie and Her Bears (Dirty Paranormal Fairytale Haremlan 3)

I wasn’t sure how someone would stop this fight, or if anything could be done but to let it play out on its own, but I certainly didn’t have a clue on step one, much less how to get my own damn self to safety. So, I resigned to my fate. Watching as what would no doubt result in my death, edged closer and closer toward me.

Again, if this was all for real. Which, the longer I thought about it, I highly doubted.

Chase and Kai were fast. Much more so than should be possible. Chase was a lot smaller than Kai in their bear form, but that didn’t appear to hold him back. He still stood his ground with Kai and at least half of the destruction in the room was due to him defending himself against Kai’s attacks.

Despite how much I wanted to chalk the whole thing up to be a terrifying nightmare, I was starting to believe this was one giant hallucination. Then a thought occurred to me…

I briefly wondered if Kai managed to slip something into the food before he brought it to me. A hallucinogenic with horrible side effects. He was probably standing in the corner, watching me freak out just for his kicks.

Maybe the two creatures dueling in the room were just two random bears that somehow managed to find their way into the cabin and Jasper’s room. That would have been a lot easier to accept and handle. But none of that explained away my observing Kai and Chase changing into the bears.

Once I considered how Kai had an instantaneous hate for me from the very first moment he laid eyes on me, I wouldn’t have put it past him to have drugged my food in some lame attempt to trick me into spilling my guts on whatever he was insistent I had lied about. But that meant he would have had to drug my food before he handed it to me, and I didn’t see that getting past Chase.

As I tried to rationalize what was happening in front of me, I had bigger problems to deal with. I was stuck taking in the chaos as the fight grew more deadly, and the two bears were making their way toward me. Kai was itching to rip me apart. I saw it in his eyes. The room was becoming so much smaller. And by each breath I took.

I closed my eyes and curled myself into as tight of a ball as I could coax myself into and waited for the fight to end. I breathed in the soft fabric of the t-shirt, coated in Jasper’s scent. I focused on the scent and relieved the moments we shared when he was inside me. The way it felt, the warmth that bled through me. The smiles and banter that we shared. If I was going to be killed in the warpath Chase and Kai refused to break away from, the last thing I wanted to do was watch it.

With the world shut out, and my face shielded from the battle, buried deep into Jasper’s t-shirt, I focused on taking deep breaths and slowing my heart. Because, if by some chance or miracle the fight stopped, I didn’t want to have a heart attack. My chest started to hurt from how hard my heart was beating, and that wasn’t a very good sign.

Sadly, my breathing wasn’t working.

What was worse was the noise of what happened around me. It sounded magnified the second I blocked out the world. I was trapped with no way out and no hope of the fight ending on its own.

I gave up trying to make the best of things and simply surrendered to my impending fate. My eyes took in the two bears clawing and biting at each other. Their furs were matted in blood and there was so much anger and rage within their eyes. Saliva and blood dripped from their sharp teeth. Claws lashed at the air and themselves.

The image made my more sadistic side wonder what it would be like to feel those things sink into my skin the few moments I would have left before I was ripped apart.

I gulped.

My imagination wasn’t making the situation I was trapped in any better. Tears filled my eyes and I wept against the wall, turning my back to the fight as much as possible. I prayed to whatever higher being truly looked over this world, wishing beyond all hope and reason for them to show me mercy and save me from such a dismal fate.

Something brushed against me. I flinched and screamed.

“Easy,” Jasper said. “It’s me.”

I faced him and threw my arms around his neck as he wrapped me in his, hoisting me into the air as though I weighed nothing, and ran out of the room, narrowly missing a swinging paw. Jasper rushed down the hall and through the living room, toward the front door. He kicked open the screen door and carried me onto the porch. He immediately set me on the rickety porch swing before rushing back inside.

Moments later, he carried out a blanket and tucked it around me.

“Are you okay?” he asked.

I blinked at him. My mouth opened and closed like a fish. My mind tried to find the right words to tell him, but it was no use. I didn’t know. I wasn’t sure if I was ever going to be okay again. My world had been turned into a dark place, where monsters existed, and I barely escaped without another scratch.

Then again, maybe I wasn’t saved. Maybe this was my mind’s way of sparing me the gory details of my death by mauling bear.

He huffed out a hot breath and watched as a single tear trickled down my cheek. “I’ll be back.”

“No don’t,” I said, louder than I wanted to. “Please, don’t leave me.”

“I have to stop them before they destroy the whole cabin. I need to put a stop to this period,” he said, keeping his gorgeous blue eyes on mine. “I won’t have you placed in constant danger while you are here.”

“How?” I asked as he turned to walk away. “How are you going to stop that?”

He stopped the moment his hand rested on the handle of the screen door. “Don’t worry about that.”

Without another word, he stepped inside, even though I tried to say something else, just to keep him near me.

I let out a breath as I took in the woods surrounding the cabin. I had never been so lost and confused in my entire life, and I was convinced now more than ever that regardless of what I said or did, Kai was going to find some way to kill me.

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