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.Mostly he was grateful to have company, to have someone who was interested inhim.He brushed his chin against Trey s shoulder and, when that contact wasn t rebuffed, laid his headthere.He couldn t help himself, he purred.Contact with Trey made him purr, he realized.Rarely had hischest rumbled to life like this.Trey laughed, but not at him, it was a full-body laugh and he shifted his feet so that suddenly his armwas slung around Jonah s narrow shoulders, and Trey buried his face into Jonah s neck.Jonah continued topurr, he couldn t stop while Trey ran fingers through his fur. Beautiful and silky, Trey declared and they sat like that for a while, Jonah soaking up this attentionof Trey s, his entire body relaxing in Trey s hold as his fingers ran over Jonah s body, over fur and muscleand bone.It felt beautiful.He felt beautiful, just as Trey had described him.Finally Trey withdrew, leaving one palm on Jonah s back as he said,  Come on now, Jonah, go shiftfor me so we can talk.Though I m glad we had the chance to run together.Joely SkyeThe human contact, the fingers, Trey s breath against him they all brought his longing to be humanto the fore and he didn t want to wait any longer.With one long lick to Trey s neck, which Trey willinglyaccepted, Jonah stalked to the back room and flopped onto the floor.With the least struggle he d ever had,his skin and bones went fluid and his mind went black before he shifted to human.He woke dazed.The room was warm, as if a fire was on and someone was with him.That hadn thappened for ages, and it took a few seconds for his brain to catch up, for him to recognize that at long last,he had a visitor.The visitor was Trey, a large man with the bluest eyes and the greatest interest in Jonah.He was kind, Jonah had to remind himself.Aaron had been fascinated by Jonah, but in a sick way, aviolent way.Two years into her relationship his mother had recognized what a mistake Aaron had been, butby then it was too late and Aaron had used the power of his knowledge of Jonah s lynx over them.He dstolen his mother s money.He d beaten her, he d beaten Jonah.Jonah pushed up to sitting and shook himself.Aaron wasn t here, would never be here or anywhereelse again.It was only Trey, also a shifter, who had no interest in using any power over Jonah that hecould tell.Trey seemed to actually like Jonah, and the idea he had a friend was almost overwhelming.He felt his dick harden and his heart rate kicked up.Shit.Not this, not when Trey had been so kind tohim.Jonah grabbed clothing and yanked it on, covering himself, trying to get himself under control.Hislynx had completely forgotten this phenomenon.But every time he shifted to human, Jonah becamearoused.Too much blood circulating around, he d decided in way of explanation, but he knew that was noreal cause.He was used to taking care of himself, and in the early days when his family was around and this hadstarted, he d taken to shifting outside, to his mother s dismay.But he stupidly hadn t shifted outside today and this place was too small to be masturbatingunobtrusively in the back room.Fuck.He was so furious with himself he began to shake.Jonah tried to think of other things besidesTrey who would be put out, if not downright repulsed, by his obvious attraction.Maybe Jonah would beattracted to women if he ever met any, but his wet dreams had men, not women in them, so he was ratherdoubtful on that count.Trey was going to wonder, soon, what the fuck Jonah was doing back here and that realization,instead of dousing his erection, had Jonah increasingly panicked.Shouldn t panic tamp down this reaction?It didn t.The tension was rising, all sorts of tension tied up with fear, embarrassment and thisattraction he couldn t keep to himself, and Jonah could barely think.He pulled in long, deep breaths to tryto calm himself, and dammit Trey must have guessed something was wrong, because he called out,  Jonah?You okay?Get it together.Now.46 www.samhainpublishing.comLynx Yes, he managed and bent over, feeling like he was running a race and had to stop and take abreather.To his utter dismay, he heard Trey move, heard footsteps approaching the back room, and hedidn t know how to face the man like this.God help him, he should have stayed lynx.Trey frowned to see Jonah bent over, hands on knees, as if winded.He also smelt the tang of mixedarousal and fear in the air Jonah s.It was a common phenomenon.When shifters turned human, theywere generally hot to have sex.It had been, during another lifetime, decades ago, something Trey lookedforward to.Since then he d worked to destroy his sexual drive, taking pride in his control of all things.It was becoming quite clear to him he d failed.Nothing about his sexual drive felt destroyed rightnow.Didn t matter.This situation was going to take a different kind of control, and some tact.He didn twant Jonah breaking down over this attraction that had grown between them, and he d be doing Jonah nofavors in continuing to pretend it didn t exist.Not when it caused these fine tremors to run through hisbody.He refused to leave Jonah hanging like this, despite a dark, black part of Trey that wanted to turnaround and walk away.He couldn t.Trey stepped forward and placed a hand on Jonah s broad back, let his palm rest on the spine that wasa little bonier than it should be.Jonah needed to eat more. Breathe. I am, Jonah gritted out and pulled in another noisy lungful.After an exhale, he declared,  I wantsome fresh air.He barreled by Trey, out of the back room, through the main area and escaped through the front door.Without his winter gear.Trey hoped Jonah wasn t stupid about this.A lynx who d just shifted was abit of a heat sink and Jonah s metabolism would be running high, so he had more time before he froze thana human.But if he wasn t back inside within ten minutes, Trey was going after him.So he waited, watching the old wind-up, a not very accurate clock Jonah kept by his bed.At eightminutes, he grabbed Jonah s winter gear and stomped out.He wanted to give the lynx some privacy, butnot at the risk of him freezing to death [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]