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mechanic for as long as she could remember.
    “Hey, Glen. Have you seen Gage?”
    Glen wiped a grease splatter from his nose. “He took off.”
    “Took off?” She felt the panic stab her lungs.
    “I told him he could ride my brother’s bike for a few days. His is going to take awhile. Might be another week or so. You don’t mind having him up at the inn do you?”
    She noticed the motorcycle sitting in the corner. She felt a sudden sense of relief. “Of course not. Do you know where he went?”
    Glen shook his head. “No, but he headed toward the dam.”
    “Thanks.” She smiled. She had an idea of where he might be.

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    S he pulled up next to the bike, and put her car in park. There were things she had done in her life she had considered to be risky. That time she dyed the ends of her hair pink. There was the time she lied to her father and got a tattoo on her hip. It was a small butterfly. He had grounded her for two weeks when he found out.
    There was the time after prom she drank a pack of wine coolers and woke up with a nasty hangover the next day. Then there was an online account she had before she met Paul, but she was too chicken to actually meet any of the guys.
    The farther she walked into the woods, she realized this didn’t fit anywhere on that scale. What she was doing now was completely out the realm of safe. She was walking into a pit of danger. She was walking toward a man who had just admitted he was a bear.
    He was sitting next to the creek. His broad shoulders wide and strong. She sighed, maybe a little too loudly, Gage turned around.
    “What are you doing here?” he asked.
    “I don’t know.” If she stepped off the trail and closer to him, was she saying she accepted him? Was she making a gesture she didn’t she was ready to make yet?
    “Want to sit?” He motioned to the rock next to him.
    She ventured off the path. “Ok.”
    She knew his eyes were on her. No matter what she did he was always watching.
    “You found your way back here.”
    He nodded. “Hard to forget this place. You told me there was magic here.”
    She felt a sudden flutter of warmth in her belly. She didn’t know how he did it. He was tough and strong, but underneath the powerful exterior she had seen his tender heart.
    “I think things make more sense now,” she murmured.
    “Because you know I’m a bear?”
    She nodded. “You’ve been blaming your bear for what happened in Razastan. You don’t think of yourself as a Green Beret. When you first told me, I was in awe of you being in Special Forces, but you didn’t tell me everything, Gage.”
    “I couldn’t.”
    “I want you to tell me what it means now,” urged.
    “Which part?”
    “All of it. I want to understand. I need to understand your bear.”
    “You do?”
    “Yes. After last night I felt like I’d never known a man the way I know you, but there’s more. No more secrets.”
    He reached for her hand. She pulled back, but tried to relax as he dipped it in the water. She felt the warmth rush over her fingers.
    She looked into his eyes.
    “This is how I feel when I’m near you.” He smiled, his eyes softening. “You warm me. You give me light. I feel the magic between us. You’re my home, Avery.”
    As his skin drifted over hers, she could feel it. The hot springs were only immersing their hands. The connection between them was tangible wherever they were.
    “How do you know? How did you know it was me?”
    “I’ve been with other women. But when I saw you my heart almost jumped out of my chest. It was instant. My need for you. My desire to protect you. To give you everything. It’s my bear’s instinct to love you unconditionally.”
    “What about all of those things Paul said? He said I should be afraid of you. Afraid of what you’ll do to me.”
    Gage inhaled. “He was trying to scare you.”
    “I’ve known him two years. I’ve barely known you two days.”
    “True. But did he ever tell you who he really was? Did he mention