Her hand comes up to cup my cheek, and there is so much love in her eyes. “I love you, Koda. I love you so much.”

Holding her hips, I cum inside her, filling her with my warm seed. But as Mother Nature keeps reminding us, there is lots more where that came from.

I roll us over and help Snow sit up on top of me, riding my rock-hard cock. When she has another orgasm, she nearly collapses on my chest, but I catch her and hold her against me.

Thrusting into her slowly with no rush to the next peak, we lie there and pet each other for hours.

“I think you might be part bear,” I say, running a bit of her hair under my nose.

She laughs, lifting her face up to look at me. “Why do you say that?”

“Because you like to cuddle almost as much as I do.”

Suddenly, she starts kissing down my chest, and I love the way it feels. I love the way every part of her feels, but I especially like her mouth.

When my cock slips free from her pussy, I growl, but she just keeps kissing lower, and for a second I forget to be mad.

Her mouth goes to my hip, and I nearly start to sit up. But she puts her hand on my stomach, and I look down at her.

“Snow, what are you doing?”

Tentatively, she moves lower, taking my cock in her hand. “I just want to make you feel as good as you make me feel.”

“But you do. You make me feel perfect just being my mate.” I grab her wrist, trying to halt her movements, but she pulls back a little.

“Just give me a second, Koda. Relax.”

I start to say something else, but her mouth goes to the tip of my cock, and I lose all conscious thought.

“Snow,” I manage to choke out as her tongue flicks across the head of my dick. She must taste the two of us mixed together, and the thought only makes me hotter. Our passion coating me and her licking it up. Selfishly, I want a taste, too.

“Mmm,” she hums around me, and she takes me deeper.

My claws come out, and I dig them into the mattress to try to keep some control. I grit my teeth, but when she goes a little deeper, I can’t stand it anymore.

Reaching down, I grab her arms and haul her up my body, turning us so she’s pinned on her back and I’m on top of her. I thrust into her in one stroke and put my mouth on hers. Feathers fly around us, and I realize that I must have cut through a pillow or down blanket. I should care, but I’m so turned on, I can’t stop and think about it.

When my mouth goes to Snow’s neck, she’s gasping for air as I keep thrusting.

“I wasn’t done yet,” she manages to say between ruts.

“No. You were finished,” I growl into her neck and feel her pussy squeeze around me. She cums clinging to me, and I follow her into the fog of paradise.

Sometime later, she says she wants to try that again, and I’ve got her on her back before she can finish the thought. She giggles and says maybe in time I will get used to it, but I don’t think that’s possible. I’ll never get used to having this perfect human all to myself. And I’ll never get used to loving every inch of her with every inch of me. For the rest of our lives.

Epilogue Snow
Six months later…

My belly is growing big, but I swear the bigger I get, the more Koda can’t keep his hands off me.

Life is still perfectly wonderful as my mate takes care of me and our growing cub. Apparently, bear shifters are pregnant for a long time, but I don’t mind. I like feeling our baby move inside of me, and I can’t help but wonder if it’s a boy or a girl. Or if it will be a shifter at all.

From what Winnie tells me, the bear gene is dominant, and with a mate the size of Koda, we are guaranteed a boy bear shifter. I loved hearing that and spent hours picturing a little boy with honey-colored eyes and golden-brown hair like his father.

I hum a happy sigh and look up to see Koda carrying over a basket of blueberries for us. We are having a picnic by the lake he found me at. I’m stretched out, enjoying the sun on my face as he lies down beside me and kisses my belly.

“Have you thought about what we should name our baby?” he asks, feeding me a blueberry.

“I think you should choose, Koda. You have a strong name, and I think you will give our son one, too.”

“What if it’s a girl?”

I smile at him and raise an eyebrow.

“Okay. If it’s a boy, I like the name Jasper.”

I nod my head and smile, liking the sound of that.

“But just in case it’s a girl, I like the name Snow.” He reaches up and touches my cheeks, and I can feel them blush.

“Why would you want to give a girl the same name as me?”

He leans down, kissing my lips softly before whispering. “Because I can’t think of anything I love more than Snow.”

We kiss for a long time before I finally lean back and look into his soft eyes. His bear is happy to be outside today, and I’m happy I can do that for him. I’ve brought Koda into the light again, and he no longer feels afraid of what’s going to happen.

He no longer has the nightmares he said he had before I came along. Instead, he sleeps and sleeps until I get up from the bed. Then he’s by my side until it’s time for bed again. He says that before he found me he wouldn’t leave the house a lot, but now he finds reasons to bring me to new places and show me the world. I think it has to do with him knowing I was locked away for so long, even though it was for my protection. I think he feels the need to make up for lost time.

“Well, we both know it’s a boy, so it’s a moot point.”