Valentin Nikolaev személy
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But his alpha only grinned, and said, “Zdravstvuyte, Theo. If Yasha gives you any trouble, just come to me—I’ll report him to his mother, and his furry butt is toast.”
“Funny, Valya.” He threw the polar bear cub at his alpha.
Only when Theo let out an involuntary cry did he realize what he’d done. Wincing, he turned to take in her shocked face. “They love it,” he told her. “Look.” Then he threw the other cub.
sometimes, a bear had to do what a bear had to do.
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A glance up, Ena’s expression impossible to read. “Brash and astute. An unexpected combination.”
Valentin shrugged. “Element of surprise.” Many people took the bearish approach to life as evidence that bears were dense and unintelligent. Bears made no effort whatsoever to dissuade the idiots.
“What do you see, Starlight?” Valentin asked in his deep rumble of a voice that spoke of the animal that lived under his skin.
Silver refused to react to the name he insisted on calling her. When she’d pointed out he was being discourteous by not using her actual name, he’d told her to call him her medvezhonok, her teddy bear, that he wouldn’t mind. It was difficult to have a rational conversation with a man who seemed impossible to insult or freeze out.
Bears.
She halted, her eyes on a couple who’d begun kissing in the center of the Cavern the instant the area cleared of children, the male’s arms tight around the woman, her fingers digging into his back.
They broke apart an unusually long time later.
“Two minutes, eleven seconds!” called out a woman who’d been watching.
“Beat that!” The couple pumped their fists in the air.
“Pfft,” a male said. “I can kiss on a single breath for at least three minutes.”
“Yeah? How about you show us?”
“Or are you all words and no action?”
The heavily built bear spread his arms. “Which lovely lady wants to volunteer to be the object of my lusty affections?” His gaze landed on Silver. “Ms. Mercant? I could show you— Never mind, I like my head on my neck.”
Silver glanced at Valentin. He gave her that terrible innocent look.