Bearly
Working
The
Grizzly List
Book
Three
Julia
Talbot
Genre:
Gay Paranormal Romance
Publisher:
All Romance eBooks
Date
of Publication: 12/1/2016
ISBN:
978-1-945193-82-8
ASIN:
B01N3PBV25
Word
Count: 23000
Cover
Artist: Erin Dameron Hill
Book
Description:
How
can a deaf bear find his mate?
Deaf
werebear Sasha loves his data entry job at The Grizzly List. When he
receives Trent’s ad to place, he knows he's going to answer it
instead, even if it might cost him his job.
Sasha’s
lack of hearing doesn’t bother Trent—his mother was deaf, too.
There’s only one problem: it’s a long-distance relationship. It’s
an issue he’s willing to overcome, because once he sees his little
bear on Skype, Trent knows they’re meant to be together.
Excerpt:
An
ad in The Grizzly List weekly:
Big
single grizzly bear in search of hot little bear who likes blondes
from Alaska. Moved to Colorado permanently and looking for company.
ND, social drinking okay. Old fashioned bear likes to go out to
dinner, watch movies and cuddle. If you like hairy and totally ready
to focus on you, I’m your bear. Reply to box 564 with your fav
restaurant and a pic if you’re ready for fun.
The ad came with a
picture of this tall, broad man wearing flannel, his shaggy blond
hair and bright golden eyes the very picture of health and, somehow,
joy.
Sasha sighed softly,
using the mouse pointer to trace the features on the photo. Oh. Oh,
that was… Look at that gorgeous face. The features were large,
blunt, very grizzly. Just his type.
He looked up to see
Vic and Marty having a fight, which they called a “discussion”
about some new Facebook page rule and whether or not they needed to
form a group. They loved to fight.
Everyone else at The
Grizzly List hated it.
He glanced back at
the screen. He was meant to clean this ad up, post it to the website
and feature it in the weekly paper that went out in four towns. They
were trying to expand through Utah and Wyoming, down into New Mexico,
but right now this was a Colorado company serving Colorado bears.
This guy was
in—Sasha checked the IP. Boulder. Yum.
The temptation to
answer the ad, to just send a picture, the name Sizzling Siam, and an
image of the Gladiator movie cover to the guy and hope for the best
was huge.
Still, the rules
were “no dating clients or co-workers.” No co-opting the clients.
The guys kept
escalating, so Sasha looked away, focusing on the screen. God, he
could so use some time off from not-this. He loved the idea of The
Grizzly List. Sasha sucked at working in the office.
In a perfect
universe, he’d be an investor, not a peon, but everyone had to
start somewhere, right? Right.
He sighed, and
copied the ad to paste it into the editing software. Instead, Sasha
opened his Dropbox and pasted it into a doc there.
He would do it from
home. Tonight. If the guy didn’t answer, then great. The ad would
go live tomorrow. That was the perfect compromise, and hey, if it
gave him jack off material, so be it.
Okay. Okay, that was
fair. Maybe a little sneaky, but fair.
He saved it so he
would have it at home with his leftover Thai food, and glanced around
one more time, the thrill of being bad racing through him.
Sometimes you just
had to, Sasha told himself. Sometimes you just had to stop being a
good employee. This grizzly might be his chance at a one and only, or
it might not get off the ground, but he had to try.
After all, how many
chances did a deaf guy get to find the bear of his dreams?
***
The email came in
early in the morning when Trent was weighing the value of sit-ups and
push-ups versus blueberry pancakes with pecans.
The ding made him
glance at his phone, and Trent’s heart kicked into high gear when
he saw the reply was from the office at The Grizzly List weekly, a
newspaper that put bears in touch with guys interested in bears. Real
and play. He thought he’d been pretty explicit that he was a real
bear.
The email subject
was, “Nice pic. Cuddling is my thing.”
There was a picture
of the Gladiator movie cover, and then a smaller, kinda fuzzy picture
of a dude. Then there was Restaurant: Thai food from Sizzling Siam.
Dark and little,
little even for a human—was this guy even a bear? He was adorbs,
though. Totally.
So.
Trent hit reply. “I
like it. Gladiator is one of my faves.”
It took just seconds
for a response. “I know, right? Men in skirts. Studly. What’s
yrs?”
“Star Wars
original trilogy. Pew pew.” He grinned. Trent was a freak for A New
Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. Jedi… eh.
“V. cool. I love
the special effects in those.”
“I do, too. Where
are you?” Was it too soon to ask? He felt good about this one.
“Sitting in my
bedroom on the laptop. ;-).” Oh, teasing butthead. “What about
u?”
“On the deck.”
He’d been lucky enough to rent a house that backed up to a nature
trail. He had this amazing deck with a view.
“Rock on. I’m in
Durango, btw.”
Oh, damn. That was
one hell of a drive for a possible pickup. Too bad. This little bear
was adorable.
Trent grinned.
“Boulder. Just moved down last month.”
“Down? From where?
Do you like it?” The emails flew fast and quick, the little bear
curious.
“Alaska. I do
custom camping gear and it’s cheaper to manufacture down here.”
“Wow. I do data
entry.”
“Yeah? Do you like
your job?” He settled in, working his butt into the grooves of his
chair. He started wondering if Little Bear chatted. Texted. Liked to
talk on the phone.
“It’s a job. You
ever do Google Hangouts or Messenger or anything?”
“I can.” He
could figure it out, right? “I could call, too. Is it too soon for
that?” He wanted to hear this one’s voice. Really badly.
There was a pause in
the emails and he winced. Oh, yeah. Too soon.
About
the Author:
Julia
Talbot lives in the great Southwest, where there is hot and cold
running rodeo, cowboys, and everything from meat and potatoes to the
best Tex-Mex. A full time author, Julia has been published by Samhain
Publishing, Dreamspinner Press, All Romance eBooks and Changeling
Press. She believes in stories that leave a mark, and that everyone
deserves a happy ending, so she writes about love without limits,
where boys love boys, girls love girls, and boys and girls get
together to get wild, especially when her crazy paranormal characters
are involved. Find Julia at @juliatalbot on Twitter.
For
more information on other books by Julia, please visit her official
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