Bear’s Midlife Miracle (Bear Mates Over Forty, Book 3)(Paranormal Women's Midlife Fiction)

Bear’s Midlife MiracleBear Mates Over Forty, Book 3Aline Ash © 2023 Aline Ash Bear’s Midlife Miracle, book 3 All Rights Reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. This book is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locations is purely coincidental. The characters are all productions of the author’s imagination.Please note that this work is intended only for adults over the age of 18 and all characters represented as 18 or over.Kindle Edition Join Aline's FB group, Aline's Aliens, for sneak peaks, giveaways, and oversharing.Get notified of new releases and special offers by signing up to Aline’s Email list Table of ContentsAbout the Book:Chapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12Chapter 13Chapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Chapter 19Chapter 20EpilogueAlso by Aline AshAbout the Author About the Book:Glendy Turning forty isn’t the hard part for Glendy Shaeffer. Moving across the country because her ex-husband’s whole clan risks getting discovered and outed as the shifters they are? She didn’t see that one coming. Seattle isn’t anything like Texas, but maybe it can be a fresh start for herself and her four year old daughter. The Pinefall clan settles on land they bought from another clan. Glendy knows nothing about the Greenacre shifters except that they exist. She doesn’t know much more about shifters other than what her ex-husband told her when they were together, which was precious little. His life was a secret; he was a secret; he was always so closed off. Was it any wonder their marriage didn’t work out? When Clay decides to take their existing custody agreement and make some changes without her consent, Glendy rushes to his clan land. In the heat of the moment, Emma runs off. Glendy is frantic and even Clay is going out of his mind. A stranger from another clan finds Emma and brings her back to them. It should just be a happy ending to a terrible situation. Glendy knows she should never see that man again, but life might just have other plans for them. Thaddius Thaddius Stern has lived alone, out in the woods of Greenacre, for a long time. Twenty years ago, something happened that fundamentally changed his life. A mate isn’t in his plans. He had someone years ago and he lost them and there’s no room in his life for anyone else, not even with Greenacre modernizing and opening up. He’s fine living the way he always has, growing food for the community and taking care of himself. Alone. So why can’t he get the beautiful, golden-haired woman out of his mind? He saved her little girl. That doesn’t mean that she’s meant for him. She can’t be, even if she keeps coming back into his life, over and over again. She can’t be, because the universe has already decided his path. He’s already decided his path. But what if the path he was meant to walk was one he didn’t even see until the fog cleared out of his life? What if he was wrong, Chapter 1GlendyFear was a noose tight around her windpipe, cutting off all her oxygen. Adrenaline made her knees weak and watery, but it also forced her to move. Glendy threw herself into her car and slammed the door shut. One twist of the key and the old beater sputtered to life. Thank God that this time it chose to run. Nothing was going to stop her from getting to her daughter. Nothing. Not time, not distance, not the will of the man who had taken her. He might have the power of a bear on his side, but she had the strength of one when she was protecting her child. Glendy threw the car in reverse and backed out of the parking space, nearly ramming into two different cars parked in the row parallel with hers. She shifted into drive and peeled out of the parking lot so fast that little pebbles from the crumbling asphalt sprayed out behind her. She cranked the wheel and skimmed past a decrepit plaid couch someone had set out beside the big red dumpster because they probably didn’t have the strength to lift it in. Clayton was freakishly strong. He would have had no problem heaving it up and over the edge. Once upon a freaking ancient, mistaken, misguided time, Glendy had been impressed by that strength. She’d fallen in love with a man whose will matched his physical prowess. What Clayton wanted, he usually got because he was willing to work hard for it. The rest of the time? Well, he’d kicked enough ass in Texas in enough underground fights that he’d earned himself a reputation for being someone you didn’t want to mess with. He’d also earned enough cash to start them a life together. When he proposed after three years of dating, three years of knowing a man she didn’t truly know at all, that’s when he’d told her. That he was a shifter. A bear. That he was part of a clan of others just like him. She’d laughed, told him he’d taken too many punches in his last fight. Too many blows to the head. And then she hadn’t laughed because if he was serious about thinking he was a bear, then he needed help.