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  Aubrey exhaled a sigh of relief, now that she didn’t have to be too embarrassed.

  “Okay, so here’s my kitchen...”

  Tatum sniffed the air, getting a good smell of her leftovers.

  “And, this is my dining area,” Aubrey announced, wincing at the ugly mismatched chairs.

  Tatum just nodded his head and followed her, keeping his eyes on her ass. “I have a question...”

  “Oh, I bet you noticed that glass unicorn collection on your way in...” Aubrey replied.

  “Where’s your bedroom?” Tatum growled.

  Immediately, Aubrey was stricken with both ecstasy and fear.

  “My bedroom...?” Aubrey cleared her throat, now really feeling his muscular presence behind her. “It’s right here...”

  Before she could even fully open the door, Tatum groped her on her hips and tossed her on her mattress. He then took Aubrey in his mouth, craving to taste every inch of her skin. His eyes rolled up, and squinted at all the unicorn pillows piled up against her headboard.

  “Lemme guess, you really got a thing for unicorns...” Tatum grunted panting heavily.

  Aubrey only shrugged and laughed awkwardly. He then kissed Aubrey again, forcing her thighs wide with his rough hands. But at first he grabbed the bottom of his shirt and pulled it up over his face.

  God! Look at his abs!

  Aubrey couldn’t help but run her hands down the contours of his rock hard stomach. A scorching need exploded through Tatum’s body and he yearned to quench it.

  “Wait, wait, wait, what about your girlfriend, Delaney?” Aubrey asked. Sure, she didn’t like Delaney but she’d never betray her.

  “Delaney and I had a fight last night,” Tatum grunted. “I think she wants to end it.”

  He could feel his cock gorging at the back of his zipper. Aubrey moaned, turning her head sideways as Tatum kissed her on her neck. She shivered underneath his weight.

  I’m literally going to have hot sex with a celebrity werebear...

  Tatum grabbed her skirt and ripped it from around her waist. Aubrey squirmed as he parted her legs. Tatum couldn’t wait to indulge in tasting her. Aubrey’s heart was racing when she saw a lustful smile curve on Tatum’s cheek.

  She moaned softly as he manhandled her supple curves. He towered over her, lowering his hands down her soft cotton shirt, grazing over her hard nipples. Tatum then held her tightly before he flipped Aubrey over onto her stomach.

  Aubrey bit down hard on her lip as Tatum slowly drew down her panties. Like any true fan, she’d seen all of his movies—even the cheesy rom-coms. And fantasized what it would be like to be kissed and touched by his rough hands.

  But this time it was for real.

  Tatum breathed hot between Aubrey’s trembling thighs as he caressed the cheeks of her ass. She had never slept with a werebear. And quite honestly, it had been a while since she had a hookup.

  Oh my God, what if I’m a little rusty? I mean, Will he notice? Aubrey worried.

  She whispered to Tatum. “Tatum,” she said unable to catch her breath, “I really like you—I guess that’s obvious. But, I can’t do this behind your girlfriends back.”

  Tatum stopped kissing her, and raised his eyebrow.

  “Don’t worry about Delaney. That’s my problem. Not yours,” Tatum reassured.

  Aubrey tried to calm her nerves but couldn’t get over the worry in her conscience.

  Tatum was determined to rut Aubrey—satisfy her every need. Aubrey flinched when Tatum spread her lips with his wet hot tongue. For Aubrey, it felt so good to have a man ravage her.

  Want her.

  Crave her.

  For so long, she just stood around in the background—unnoticed.

  “When I saw you walk onto the set, I couldn’t take my eyes off of you,” Tatum growled after turning Aubrey over once more. He wanted to savor this moment and didn’t want to rush it. Aubrey didn’t understand how such a hard-bodied man could see anything in her. He now lowered himself between her thighs and the cool metal buckle on his belt pressed into her soft lower stomach.

  Tatum controlled her in ways that no man ever had. At first, Tatum guided her hand towards his belt.

  “I want you to unzip me,” he growled. Resting Aubrey’s shivering hand over the hard outline in the front of his jeans.

  Aubrey gulped, while flipping up the leather strap. She could hear the friction between the leather in the denim as she yanked it free. Finally, she unfastened the button and then slowly pulled down Tatum’s zipper.

  You realize you’re sleeping with the monster, right? Aubrey realized. But as she stared at his thick bear cock gorging underneath his tight heather briefs, her common sense and reason got tossed out of her head.

  “Now, I want you to take my cock into your hand and I want you to stroke me,” Tatum growled, aching to have his cock touched by Aubrey’s soft small hands. Aubrey’s eyes widened at the sight of Tatum’s grizzly-sized cock throbbing and ready to thrust deep inside her.

  Before things really started getting hot and heavy, Aubrey still had one more question to ask.

  “What is it that you see in me?” She asked, staring into Tatum’s lustful red eyes.

  “I see a girl in there who wants to let loose and have fun. And I want to show her just how much fun we can have,” Tatum growled.

  But then Aubrey couldn’t stop asking questions. She always got a motormouth when she got really anxious.

  “But, but what if...?” Aubrey started to speak.

  But Tatum pulled her close, forcing her to arch her back, so he could kiss her again. Tatum then groped her hips, sliding the head of his cock deep into her soft moist heat.

  He groaned with passion as he thrust himself deeply inside her. Aubrey moaned, feeling the force of each of his powerful thrusts. Sweat from his body rained down on her neck and on her parted lips. She turned her eyes on to him and not once did Tatum break his craving gaze.

  Tatum took her breasts in his mouth, tasting her as he fucked her with a ravenous need. Aubrey felt both pain and pleasure, gripping onto his back and clawing her nails into his skin. He pushed his bear cock inside her all the way to the hilt.

  Aubrey felt a fullness, as he fucked her rough but slowly. Aubrey never felt so wanted, feeling Tatum’s strong body force himself between her legs. Tatum grabbed her tightly to his chest when his cock vigorously came into her pussy. Aubrey moaned again, as Tatum just held her not wanting to let go.

  Chapter Five

  Aubrey raked her fingers through Tatum’s dark thick hair. He rested all sweaty on a fluffy unicorn pillow.

  “What attracts so many shifters to Hollywood, anyway?” Aubrey asked, looking into his dark red eyes.

  Tatum, totally spent, grunted his reply. “It’s nice sometimes to be the hero instead of being the monster...Shifters are the best actors, because we have to act normal all of the time.”

  Aubrey thought it was a shame that shifters couldn’t reveal what they really were.

  They both heard a noise, speeding closer from the kitchen.

  “You expecting company?” Tatum snarled, curious to know what the ruckus was. He raised himself upright, narrowing his red eyes on the bedroom door.

  Aubrey lived alone. And sometimes her neighbor came over to feed her cat, but she had no clue who this was...

  Suddenly, the door swung open and Delaney stationed herself in the middle of the door frame.

  “You cheating ass bastard!” she screeched, glowering at Tatum with pure rage in her eyes. She had a tabloid magazine clutched in her perfectly manicured hand. A picture of Aubrey and Tatum with the words SCANDAL!!! were splashed on the cover.

  “You man stealing bitch!” she shrilled, staring down at Aubrey with daggers in her cat-like eyes.

  Aubrey noticed dark black fur spreading all over Delaney’s smooth arms and legs.

  “God, she’s a shifter too!” Aubrey yelled, holding onto Tatum’s bicep for dear life.

  Tatum nodded. “She’s
a werecat! They’re a testy bunch. Hide in the closet! Let me take care of this,” he growled, shuffling Aubrey in the closet and slamming the door shut.

  “Did you really think I wouldn’t find out?!” Delaney hissed through her cat-fangs. “You alphas are all the same. This is the last friggin’ time I date a werebear...”

  Tatum chuckled. “It’s over, Delaney. Stay far far away...”

  Enraged, Delaney kicked the closet door to make sure Aubrey was listening. “He can make you feel like everything one day. And the next...he’ll make you feel like nothing. You’ll find out—just you wait,” she warned, before shooting Tatum a look and then trotted out of the door.

  “You can come out now,” Tatum grunted, opening the closet.

  Aubrey didn’t say anything only remembering Delaney’s last words.

  Just you wait.

  Even though, Tatum held Aubrey close to him she couldn’t shake the worry.

  Chapter Six

  When they stepped out of Aubrey’s apartment, a swarm of fans waited for Tatum outside.

  “TATUM! MARRY ME!” The crazed girls shrieked at the top of their lungs.

  Tatum lurched over to the group of screaming girls to sign autographs. Then ushered Aubrey into the limo.

  He noticed the expression of anxiety still struck on Aubrey’s face.

  “Don’t think about Delaney, she’s lying. She’s just trying to get between us, alright?” Tatum growled against Aubrey’s neck. Tatum loved the smell of her, and the taste of her skin.

  But Aubrey wondered, if a woman like Delaney Divine can’t keep a man—then how could a curvy girl like her ever have a chance?

  “I know,” she aired, looking down into her lap. Tatum caressed Aubrey’s soft cheeks, cradling her face in his hands.

  “Trust me when I say this. It is you and me forever no matter what...” Tatum growled, wanting nothing more than to make his love known.

  She looked down at Tatum’s schedule. “You’ve got an interview in an hour—you’re gonna be late.”

  “Fuck it,” Tatum roared at the driver. “Take me to my special spot.”

  Special spot? Aubrey wondered.

  The limo swerved around and before she knew it Aubrey and Tatum were out in the Hollywood Hills.

  “Stop here!”

  Tatum launched out of the car.

  “Get out,” he growled. “I wanna show you something.”

  Aubrey rose up and the limo sped off. Tatum had a sinister smile on his face. He kissed her deeply and took a few steps back.

  Dark fur spread all over his body and claws. Aubrey reeled back at the sight of a brown bear. Aubrey cautiously approached the bear as it sniffed its wet nose against her neck.

  She squinted.

  Does he want me to get on? She pondered, watching as Tatum slouched low in his werebear form.

  Aubrey grabbed two fistfuls of fur, climbing up onto Tatum’s shaggy back. She wobbled as she tried to balance herself when Tatum took big lurching steps.

  I have no idea where the hell I am... Aubrey grew concerned.

  Tatum climbed all the way up a rough steep mountainside.

  When they finally reached the top, Aubrey finally recognized where they were.

  “Oh my God, it’s the Hollywood sign!” She squealed.

  Tatum then stopped shuffling forward, allowing Aubrey to easily slide down his fur. In that moment, Tatum perched up on his strong haunches until he transformed back into a man. A warm sunset just gleamed over their shoulders.

  “Oh, my— Tatum this is breathtaking,” Aubrey said half aloud.

  “Not as breathtaking as what I’m looking at right now,” Tatum growled, pressing his naked body up against Aubrey’s back. He couldn’t wait to explore every inch of her skin with his tongue.

  Aubrey turned around, resting her hand onto his hard chest. “I find it impossible to think you actually like me... You’re so famous. I’m a nobody.”

  “Nothing’s impossible,” Tatum growled, smiling disarmingly yet aching to get his hands on her. Touch her.

  “Ah!” Aubrey giggled when Tatum scooped her up into his arms. When Tatum gazed down into her eyes, he could see she needed it as badly as he did.

  The warm sunset bared down on their backs, and this time Aubrey didn’t want to come to her senses. In fact, she didn’t want to be sensible at all.

  Tatum swiped his hand across her chest, as he pulled down the straps on her tank top. This time Aubrey was much less self-conscious than before.

  Tatum’s rock hard bear cock, pressed up against the small of Aubrey’s back.

  She shivered vulnerable in his hands as Tatum slid her bra down her arms. More slowly, Tatum slipped his thumbs underneath the soft, fabric of her panties. He let his finger sink down between her warm folds and started stimulating her clit with this rough hands.

  “Don’t stop,” Aubrey breathed, mumbling as Tatum strained his hand inside her. He then encircled her in his muscular arms.

  Tatum growled hot in her ear. “I’ll go as long and as hard as you want me to...”

  His feral hunger came over him. He stared down at her with his chilling red eyes, kissed her on her full lips and then parted Aubrey’s legs with his knee.

  Aubrey had never had sex outdoors. In the way Tatum wanted her, it would be more than sex. It would be a passionate fuck.

  She quivered under his weight, when Tatum groped her curvy hips and closed his mouth over her nipples. He loved how silky and smooth they tasted against his tongue. His bear cock urged to fill her warm heat. Tatum curved his hand over her breasts, steadying himself and ready to mount.

  Aubrey gazed up at his hulking his body— all shoulders, chest and biceps. He could no longer contain the restrained desire. Tatum needed to make love to her.

  Fuck her.

  With Tatum’s big bear cock hard and stiff, he forced himself inside her moist heat.

  Aubrey rocked her hips back, on his throbbing grizzly -sized cock. Aubrey gasped, as Tatum’s manhood pressed against her insides. Aubrey gasped again, giving less resistance as Tatum filled her heat.

  Tatum groaned, breathing heavily and feeling Aubrey’s tight heat slide up and down his thick shaft.

  God, it feels soooo good.

  Aubrey almost whimpered, thinking Tatum had gone to deep.

  He fucked her faster, sweating madly and Aubrey watched him thrusting mightily with his ripped abs proudly on show. Aubrey shuddered, feeling the warm tip of his big bear cock coming inside her. Tatum groaned, and then lay next to her in the grass.

  “Can we stay here forever?” Aubrey whispered.

  “No,” Tatum growled, caressing her cheek. “But we can stay here little while longer...”

  The two of them lay together in the grass, watching the fiery orange sun lower underneath the horizon.

  Chapter Seven

  Less worried now, and definitely more relaxed, Aubrey stopped letting Delaney’s cryptic warning about Tatum eventually straying bother her anymore. She was back on the film set, but this time behind the scenes.

  She hadn’t seen Tatum yet, but she figured he was going over his lines. He always likes to go over his lines before shooting a scene. Aubrey stepped around, when she heard what sounded like faint giggling nearby. Right then, she heard a familiar laugh.

  Tatum? Where is that coming from? She pondered.

  Aubrey swung around to the break room and could now finally see who was laughing.

  Tatum leaned close to one of the actresses, as if he were going to kiss her. Aubrey stomped her foot. But she was too angry to even raise her voice.

  “So much for you and me...” Aubrey hissed, turning around fast and taking off out the door. Tatum charged after her.

  “Wait up, Aubrey! It’s not what you’re thinking,” Tatum growled, trying to stop her.

  But Aubrey didn’t stop, not until he made it halfway across the set.

  “Aubrey, listen to me,” Tatum grunted, forcing her around.

  Aubrey shoo
k her head. “I’m done listening. Do you expect me just to take your word for it? Delaney Divine may be many things... But clearly, she’s not a liar...”

  Tatum grew frustrated with her accusations. “When have I ever lied to you, Aubrey? You have to trust me.”

  “Okay,” Aubrey figured she should at least humor him. “Then what were you doing back there?”

  “In case you didn’t notice, I’m an actor. Daisy and I were just rehearsing our lines,” Tatum grunted, hoping Aubrey would let her rage blind her.”

  How could I ever be stupid enough to believe him? Aubrey thought.

  “I’m sorry, Tatum. I should have known... Once a cheater always a cheater.” Aubrey hollered, before walking off the set.

  Turns out werebears are liars just like all other men I’ve slept with.

  “Aubrey...c’mon, Aubrey!” Tatum shouted.

  Aubrey booked it, already long gone.

  *

  She already had most of her things packed. Aubrey just decided that moving to Los Angeles was the worst decision in her life. It mostly started as a dream to do something crazy, but now she realized it was just wasted time. Aubrey unsteadily grasped her bags in her hands and then headed out to the idling taxi outside her door.

  As soon as she took a step outside, Tatum stood there—waiting for her.

  “I’m not going to give you up without a fight,” Tatum growled and shrugged.

  “Get out the way, I’m leaving...” Aubrey insisted, trying to maneuver around Tatum’s powerful body.

  “If you really want someone to be angry at, you should just blame yourself...” Tatum grunted frankly.

  Me?! The nerve of this asshole.

  Aubrey snorted. “I’m not the one swapping spit with B-rate actresses...”

  Tatum shook his head, folding his arms. “No, you’re just the one sabotaging true love because you’re afraid of what might happen. Just admit it, Aubrey. You’re afraid of falling in love for bad boy werebear who might actually challenge you for once in your sad life.”

  Of course, Tatum knew to hit her where it hurts. Aubrey did have a fear. She feared that she was never going to be pretty enough. She was never going to be interesting enough. That she was never going to be anything enough for a man like Tatum. And that’s what she feared most of all.