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Raze shuffled in his seat to sit across from me, our knees touching, and scanned the wilderness. His sudden intake of frosty air had my pulsespeeding.
“Do exactly as I say.” His words rushed, and I hated the way he said that. “Stay in the carriage, no matter what happens or what you see. The horses won’t stop and will deliver you to ourhome.”
“Am I in danger? Where are you going? And where’s my bag? I need my stuff.” I gasped for air, drawn out of my comfort zone. I gawked as another dark form leaped behind a fewtrees.
“Oh, my goddess. Is that a bear? Why are they running with us? I-Is it anescort?”
Raze toed his boots off, shrugged out of his coat, and unbuttoned his blackshirt.
“What the fuck are you doing?” I hissed and curled in on myself on the seat, my gaze swinging from the brown bear that now raced alongside us, so huge, I could die from a stroke, to Raze, half-naked and pushing himself toward thedoor.
My attention lowered to the most incredible flat stomach, the planes of which were pure muscle. Strong, powerfuland—
A growl bellowed from the woods, and Iflinched.
“I’ll buy you time to arrive at the castle.” His words rushed and his brow perspired. Was he worried I wouldn’t make it? He undid the buttons on his pants, and Goddess, any other time I’d be gawking, but now I couldn’t pull my gaze from the window. The bear twisted its head in my direction,snarling.
“Those bears aren’t our escort, arethey?”
“Nope!”
Numbness owned me as I pictured my death—being torn to shreds. “Why are they attacking us if you’re from the royal palace? Will you beokay?”
“There are some royal issues right now.” In a blur of movement, the door slapped open, and icy winds flooded the carriage. Raze jumped out, butt-naked, transforming midair so fast, I could have missed it if I’d blinked. His body expanded, his legs and arms thickened, and fur exploded across his skin. He changed so swiftly, it reminded me of an eagle batting against a gust withease.
Raze hit the ground on all fours, wearing golden, brown fur. He lunged at the other bear. Both rolled across the snow and slammed into atree.
The carriage kept racing forward, the door flapping open and shut, and the night stealing the battle from mysight.
I reached over and yanked the door shut. “Oh, shit. Oh, shit! Whatnow?”
Raze had said to stay inside, yet my knees kept bouncing. The horses would take me to the castle, he’d insisted. My teeth chattered as I conjured images of my death. If bears attacked their own kind, what in the world would they do to me? And what issues was the royal bear shifter family having? Had I walked into political drama? Or was this about thecurse?
A sudden crash slammed into the side of the carriage, and my heart froze. I jerked around in time to see a massive bear darting out of my line of sight as the carriage trembled out of control, lifting upward on itsside.
Arms flaying for balance, I slid along the seat, hitting the wall. The snowy ground rushed toward me, and Iscreamed.
