Bearly Yours

I’m in love with my best friend, one of the last dragon shifters in the world.
Yeah, life has just gotten way more complicated.

For two years I’ve gone on one bad date after another, and for two years my best friend Roarke has stood by my side. I don’t want to date other guys. I want to date Roarke. But there are two problems with this.
One, Roarke is one of five dragon shifters left in the world. In order to protect his species from going extinct, he needs to find his true mate and have children. It’s the only way for us shifters to have children, because otherwise our biochemistry doesn’t mix well. And two, and really an addendum to problem number one if we’re adding up issues here, I’m broken. I have no scent. So that whole thing that allows mates to detect each other? Yeah, I don’t have it.

I’m a blank slate.
An unpainted masterpiece.
Bummer doesn’t really cover it, does it? It feels more like what engineers call catastrophic failure.
Until the night my home gets broken into, and something very special is stolen from me.

Now Roarke and my Clan are working together to keep me safe from a mysterious shadow shifter, and the mix of Roarke and my Clan working together often yields hilarious results. Does this keep me entertained while I’m terrified for my life? Yes, yes it does. And does my awesome but grumpy best friend like being knee deep in my Clan? Nope, but he does it for me, and I adore him all the more for it.
I keep hoping that in true romcom style Roarke and I will get our happily ever after. But this is real life, and I don’t know if there are any happily ever afters for a broken bear shifter and a dragon shifter.

To any Cupids listening…please help a girl out!