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With a deep breath, I duck under the same branch as this afternoon and enter Adrian’s territory

My pulse starts racing as I stand there, looking around and listening to the owl hooting from somewhere far away

It’s eerily quiet

I’m there for a few minutes when reality kicks in and I realize that I et eaten?

I’ of heavy paws racing toward me from somewhere deep in the dark woods

I gasp as I see the treescloser

A part of er part of me wants to stay and see if this is what fate has in store for me

“Oh, boy,” I whisper when I see the huge silhouette of a grizzly bear slowly approaching

The closer he gets, the more I can see His head is low, his brown eyes fixated on ulp as he lets out a deep huff A plume of steam billows into the air

“Please don’t hurt me,” I whisper to him as he comes within a few yards “I just came to be your friend”

He stops a few feet away and lifts his wet black nose Steam puffs from his mouth with every hard breath he takes His eyes are focused on me as he smells the air I wonder if he can smell my arousal that’s still on my hand Maybe I should have taken a shower

His demeanor is different than it was this afternoon He doesn’t look as angry or as threatening

I look into his eyes, really look into them, and my heart breaks when I see the tiredness and torhting? Living without me?

“I’ to touch you, okay?” I whisper

He flinches when I reach out I snap ain, slower, easier as I whisper softly to him

“I just want to be your friend Would you like that?”

He lowers his head and lets rumbles with content as I slide my palm down his soft cheek His eyes never leave mine

“This is not so bad,” I whisper to him and to myself

He suddenly starts shaking and I yank asp

I stare with ain into the nakedabout

His body convulses and then with a rip, he’s there