Mated to the Wilde Bear

Chapter 21: Xavier

“What’s all your fault?” Laurel rounded the bottom of the stairs, and every one of them clammed up and stared back her as if they’d been caught with their hand in the cookie jar. Xavier wanted to laugh, but damn if he didn’t feel the same.

“Nothing. We’re discussing a new hire for the crew,” he said.

Laurel reached for the resume and Harley snarled. Xavier silenced him with a look.

“Kyra Gold,” Laurel read aloud. “She sounds like a bad chick. She’s the new hire?”

Xavier shot a look at the guys and then answered, “Not yet. But she’s the best choice so far.”

“Or would be if she didn’t have a vagina,” Harley muttered.

“Dude,” Nash scolded him.

Laurel’s eyes widened, and she looked at Xavier. “You’re thinking of skipping over her because she’s a woman?” she demanded.

to let the room know he was the boss here. “I’m talking to my crew

him. “Right. Because they’re much more important

Jake said under his

him, spun on her heel, and

he said, slipping in to block her path just before she

list all the reasons women aren’t equals in the workplace? I can go to my own job to hear that,” she said. Underneath the

that,” he said.

Got it,

to mate. Because you came along and, I can’t get you out of my head. And I think my animal already claimed you because I can’t even stand to be more than three feet from you without being in utter misery. But then, I’m in misery

to a slow smile. She leaned in and kissed him on

the corner in the dining hall, there was a collective mixture of groans and whistles. Laurel laughed. Confounded fucking woman. God, he loved her laugh, though. He considered carrying her upstairs right now

hungry,” Jake

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