Cinderella's Billionaire Bear: A Shifter Fairy Tale (2 page)

Chapter 2

Cinderella

I was like a traveling
tourist with my eyes everywhere, trying to take in every little detail the
exquisite wedding venue had to offer. When suddenly, I saw him walking my way.

He was tall with broad
shoulders and a narrow waist. His face was devilishly handsome, and he had an
air of confidence about him. I couldn't help but stare as he continued to walk
my way.

He was only a few feet
away from me now.
Wait a minute, was he actually coming over to talk to me?
Working at the casino, I was used to guys trying to chat me up. But never
before had someone like this perfect specimen of a man tried to hit on me. He
was way out of my league. There was no way he was coming over to hit on me,
right?

I looked around me to
see if there was anyone else he could be approaching right now. But no,
everyone else around me already had a date.

Then it happened. His
eyes locked on mine, and I became certain he was approaching me. My heart
pounded fast at the realization. I willed myself to calm down so that he
wouldn't think I was a fumbling idiot upon talking to me.

"Hey," he
said as soon as he was close enough for me to hear him over the sound of the
wedding band. "I haven't seen you before. What's your name."

"I'm
Cin...uh...Tasha. What's your name?"
Whoops! That was a close one. I
almost gave him my real name instead of Tasha's. My stepmother would have a fit
if she ever heard my name somehow mentioned in relation to this wedding.

"I'm sorry, but
did you just say your name was Sin Natasha?" he asked with a devilish
grin.

Great! Now he must think
I'm a stripper or something.

"No, it's just
Natasha. But my friends like to call me Sin Natasha as a sort of inside
joke." I tried to recover from my mistake.

"Sin Natasha, huh?
I'd love to hear the story behind that nickname."

"What about you?
What's your name?" I asked in an attempt to steer the conversation away
from my new bogus nickname.

"I'm Edward, but
my friends call me Charming."

"Charming? That's
an interesting nickname."

"Not as
interesting as Sin Natasha," he said with a charming grin.
Yeah, I can
totally see why they call him Charming.
The way he smiled alone was enough
to earn him the nickname.

I was trying to come up
with something clever to say next when a skinny blonde woman walked right up to
Charming. She had on a white dress and looked really good in it. Still, I
couldn't help but think it was in bad form for her to wear white to someone
else's wedding.

"There you are! I
was wondering where you had gone off to. The band is playing my favorite song,
and I'm itching to go out there and dance. Let's go and show everyone how it's
done," she said.

"Sorry, Melissa,
but I'm about to dance with Natasha. I guess you'll have to find someone else
to dance with you."

"But I want to
dance with you," she whined like a toddler about to throw a tantrum.

"Sorry, but I'm
taken for the night," said Charming as he suddenly clasped my hand and led
me out to the dance floor.

"Hey, I never
agreed to dance with you," I playfully said only loud enough for him to
hear. I didn't pull my hand away from him though. I liked the firm grasp he had
on my hand too much to do that.

"Well, will you
please dance with me? You're the only one who can save me from Melissa. Plus, I
want you to show me on the dance floor how you've earned the nickname Sin
Natasha."

"Okay, I'll help
you get away from Melissa. But as far as the nickname goes, you'll be greatly
disappointed because I didn't earn it from my dazzling dance moves."

The grin on his face
widened. "Now you've got me even more interested to find out before the
end of the night just how you got your nickname, Sin Natasha."

My face blushed crimson
at the implications of his words. Was he thinking about hooking up with me
tonight? One-night stands weren't really my thing. In fact, I only ever had one
up until now, and it was a horrible experience. So I had been reluctant to have
another one ever since. But for Charming, I might just be willing to make an
exception.

Charming's hand was on
the small of my back as he led me into a waltz dance. He twirled me around to
the beat of the music, and I did my best to keep up with his steps.

He moved with such
natural ease on the dance floor that I couldn't help but wondered just how well
he moved inside the bedroom.
God! What was with me?
Why was I even
thinking such thoughts? Never before had I felt so instantly attracted to a
man.

Was it the perpetual twinkle
in his eyes? Or was it the way in which his muscular body filled out the tuxedo
just right? Maybe it was because of the wicked yet charming smile he kept
giving me. Or maybe it was how easy and fun it had been talking to him thus
far.

As I continued to dance
with Charming, I briefly wondered whether I was in the middle of a dream.
Surely, that would be the only way to explain how I ended up in a beautiful
dress and a splendid pair of shoes while dancing with the hottest man in the
room.

The song we were
dancing to came to an end and a more upbeat tempo started playing instead.
Charming and I danced for a while longer before he asked if I wanted to take a
break and go with him outside. I smiled and nodded in agreement because, to be
honest, I would have gladly followed him anywhere.

He led me outside while
holding my hand the entire way. Butterflies swarmed inside my belly as we walked
on the cobblestone together.

"So tell me, Sin Natasha,
where are you from? Because you're obviously not from New York based on the
fact that I had never seen you around here before."

"Well, New York is
big and highly populated, so it wouldn't be unheard of for us to never run into
each other while living here."

"Still, there's
such a magnetic pull to you that I'm certain you would have drawn me in a long
time ago had you been living in the area."

I smiled and blushed at
his words. I knew it was just a line he was using to impress me, yet I couldn't
help but feel a drumming in my chest as a result of it all.

"You know, Sin
Natasha, you're even more beautiful when your cheeks turn beet red like
that."

"You always know
just the right thing to say, don't you? Now I know why your friends all call
you Charming."

"And yet I still
don't know why they call you Sin Natasha. But that's okay, I'm determined to
find out before the clock strikes midnight."

He was so cocky, but
instead of being turned off by it, I found myself incredibly aroused. Maybe it
was because I knew he could be spending his time right now with any other girl
at the wedding, yet he had chosen to be with me.

I had been so engrossed
in our conversation that I didn't even notice until just now that the path we
had been walking on led right to a gazebo.

"This is
beautiful," I said as I sat down next to him on the cement bench
underneath the gazebo.

"Still not as
beautiful as you are," he said as he leaned in close and held my chin in
his hand.

He was so close to me
now, I could smell the heady mixture of his cologne and natural masculine
scent. It caused all of my nerve endings to stir and tingle.

 My lips parted on
their own, and he seized the opportunity to kiss me. His tongue swirled against
mine slowly and sensually.

Then he pulled away to
gaze into my eyes. "That was amazing," he said, and I couldn't
possibly agree more.

"Yes, it was
amazing. Now kiss me some more." I surprised myself with how suddenly
forward I was being with a man I hardly even knew.
What was it about him
that made me so wild and carefree?

His lips curled up into
a smug grin. Then he leaned in again to kiss me. This time, our kiss was much
needier than before. It was like we were imitating sex with our tongues. And
when he playfully bit my bottom lip, desire coursed through my veins.

He broke away from the
kiss and whispered close to my ear, "Let's continue this in my hotel suite.
Shall we?"

I hesitated to answer,
unsure if it was a good idea to hook up with him for what would obviously
become a one-night stand. My head was telling me to say no, but my body was
begging to say yes.

While waiting for me to
respond, he lightly licked my ear, causing my nipples to harden into pebbles
against my fancy dress. I was too turned on by him now to think of anything
else. So I listened to my primal urges and agreed to go with him to his room.

Charming stood up from
the cement bench after that and offered his hand to help me get up as well. I
gladly took his hand, and we walked back towards the castle together.

After just a few steps,
the sound of neighing horses caught my attention. I turned towards the sound
and saw a horse-drawn carriage in the near distance.

"Want to hop on
the carriage for a ride?" asked Charming.

"I'd love to but
wouldn't we have to book it in advance?"

"I'm sure we can
figure something out with the coachman," said Charming as he hurried
towards the horse-drawn carriage.

At first, the coachman
didn't want to take us for a ride. But he soon agreed when Charming slipped him
a few one-hundred-dollar bills.

Charming and I got
inside the carriage, and we were pulled away by the horses. The already
romantic setting became even more romantic.

"Thank you for making
this carriage ride possible," I said to Charming. "It's the first
time I've ever been on one."

"It's my pleasure
to share the experience with you," he said as he wrapped an arm around me.

The coachman drove us
around the entire castle building, allowing me the opportunity to really take
in the architecture of it all. Charming held me close for the entire duration
of the ride, and a part of me felt as if I was a fairy tale princess riding off
into the sunset with my handsome prince.

The carriage halted to
a stop at the entrance to the hotel part of the castle. Charming and I got out
of the carriage, and he led the way inside.

We boarded the elevator
together. Once he pressed the button to get to the top floor, Charming held me
in his arms and whispered, "I can't wait to be alone with you in my room.
I want you to finally show me how you got your Sin Natasha nickname."

Before I even had the
chance to say anything in response, the elevator doors opened, and Charming
quickly steered me towards his room.

Once we got inside his
hotel room, Charming quickly closed the door behind us and pushed me against a
wall.

His mouth covered mine
in an instant, continuing right where we had left off earlier under the gazebo.
With his body right against mine, I could feel how hard he was for me, and it
turned me on ever more.

Charming reached behind
me to unzip the back of my dress. Then he tugged it all the way down so that I
was standing there in just my bra and panties. Normally, I'd start feeling
self-conscious right about now. But the way he hungrily looked at my body made
me feel too much like a sexy goddess to even care about being shy.

He reached for the
clasp on my bra and easily unhooked it before pulling it all the way off. He
made a growling noise as he palmed my bare breasts. Then he greedily sucked on
my fat nipples, causing blood to roar in my ears.

Charming then trailed
his kisses lower on my body. Down towards my belly, then further down towards
my thighs.

I ached for him to
touch me in my most private area, but he decided to linger at my inner thighs
instead. The nibbling he did there drove me absolutely mad with lust.

Just when I thought I
couldn't get any more turned on, he went and proved me wrong by taking my
panties off with his teeth. He then looked up at me, and I saw his eyes glowing
brightly.

"Mine," he
growled over and over again like a caveman before delving his tongue inside my
silky wet folds. He expertly licked and sucked, and my knees soon buckled as a
result of his efforts.

Charming then turned
his attention to my button, lapping at it with his tongue. Meanwhile, his
fingers plunged in and out of my wet slit again and again. My brain
short-circuited as I cried out in pleasure.

Charming lapped up all
of my juices before standing up to face me again. He kissed me on the mouth,
and I could smell myself on his lips. It was wicked and so fucking hot at the
same time.

I broke away from our
kiss and gave him my most seductive grin before speaking again. "Now it's
my turn to see what you've got hiding underneath all these clothes."

"Please do because
everything I've got under here is all for you."

I unbuttoned the jacket
of his tuxedo while he took off his bow tie and threw it to the ground. Then I
stripped off his jacket and threw it on top of the bow tie. Next, I unfastened
his dress shirt, eager to finally see the ripped body he had going on under
there.