Total pages in book: 24
Estimated words: 22739 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 114(@200wpm)___ 91(@250wpm)___ 76(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 22739 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 114(@200wpm)___ 91(@250wpm)___ 76(@300wpm)
Read Online Books/Novels: | Pulled to the Alpha (Alphas in Heat #5) |
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Author/Writer of Book/Novel: | Olivia T. Turner |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN/ ASIN: | B082T3GYQW |
| Book Information: | |
Blake turns into one possessive polar bear shifter when he sees the girl who belongs to him. Nobody, including that vicious dragon shifter is going to stop him from claiming what's his. This is the fifth book in the Alphas in Heat series featuring the bear shifters from the Blackcloud Point fire station. Fire-fighting bear shifters? Yes, please! The books can be read in any order. This fireman romance shifter book is SAFE, with no cheating, and a furry HEA guaranteed. | |
| Books in Series: | Alphas in Heat Series by Olivia T. Turner |
| Books by Author: | Olivia T. Turner Books |
Chapter One
Blake
“Watch it, Blake,” Ethan warns as I get in close to the flames. “You can heal from the fire, but you can’t get rid of the scars.”
I take off my jacket and start beating the flames with it. I can handle getting burned. I’ve never minded pain. And about the scars…
What does it matter anyway? I’m fifty-four and I still haven’t found my mate. At this point, I don’t think she’s ever coming so I might as well get some scars if it means saving this nice family’s house.
My inner polar bear roars as we feel the heat. Sweat breaks out all over my skin as the hairs on my arm turn to ash. I’m hitting the flaming carpet with my jacket, trying desperately to fight the flames back, but they’re growing everywhere.
We got a call about a chimney fire in a house and we rushed over. It’s not just the chimney. The whole damn living room is on fire and if I don’t move fast, the whole place will be engulfed in flames soon. And those sweet people outside with the crying kids will be stuck in a hotel for months.
“It’s too much,” Ethan says as he coughs from the thick smoke. “It’s going to take the hose for this one.”
I know what’s going to happen if we start unloading water in here. The whole house will be ruined. If I can just get it under control, then they’ll only have to renovate one room rather than restart from scratch.
“Go set it up,” I say as my throat burns and my eyes water. “Wait until my word before you open the pipe.”
Ethan nods and then rushes out. Carter and Rylan are outside and Westin is back at the station. It’s just me against the fire now.
I can’t get the image of that poor lady outside in the snow with her two kids out of my mind. Seeing her husband’s arm around her shoulders as she cried really got to me. I know he would do this for his girl if he could, so I’m going to do it for him.
I wish I had someone like that to fight for. A mate to die for.
I’m coughing and hacking away as I beat back the flames. I put out the fire on the carpet and kick in a couple of walls to find the flames hiding behind.
Ethan comes back in with a fire hydrant and tosses it to me. I catch it and let it rip, pouring it in the walls, then up the chimney. I open the window to let the smoke escape and get some of that fresh winter air in. I stick my head out and take a deep breath of the chilly mountain air. It feels like ice in my searing lungs. It feels so good.
But nothing feels as good as seeing the reactions on the family’s faces when I walk back outside a few minutes later and they realize their house is going to be okay.
“Thank you so much,” the man says as he gives me an unexpected hug. “What can I do to repay you?”
“Take good care of that family of yours,” I say as I slap his back. Because not all of us are as lucky to have a family to take care of.
We fix up the house as best we can and then make sure the family is safe in a hotel for the night. Everything they have is going to smell like smoke for a while, but at least it’s intact.
There are burnt holes all over my t-shirt so I just take it off and toss it in the garbage when we get back to the station.
It’s late, but Mila is there to greet us. She runs over to her mate Rylan and jumps on him, kissing his face as she wraps her arms around his back. I look away.
I’m happy for them, but I can’t. It’s just too hard.
“I was hoping I was going to get to see you,” Mila says after they kiss. She’s a doctor and always working weird hours. “Are you almost finished?”
I feel Rylan looking at me. He doesn’t want to ask, but I can feel the question burning into me.
“Go,” I say without looking at them. “Have fun.”
Mila squeals in delight and they race off into the night to do whatever mates do.
I look at my arms, trying to focus on the burnt hairs and not on the jealousy that’s burning through me. That jealousy is a killer. Believe me, I know.
I’ve had to watch with a smile on my face as all four of these guys found their mates. All of them are younger. Carter didn’t even want a fucking mate for Christ’s sakes and he got one.
I’ve been waiting for five decades for my girl to come into my life. For my heart to be complete. To be whole.