He shook his head, lips swollen and smirking. “I asked him for a few hours of alone time.”
“What a grand idea.” I smiled back at him and massaged his pert ass.
“It’s never been so good as it’s been with you.”
Oh, god, he was everything! I grabbed his hair and angled his head to kiss him deep, claiming him as mine and knowing he wanted me, too. He wanted to be mine!
I wanted to shift into my natural form, not this one that I used to hide myself from unaware humans. I itched to use claws to rend his clothes and free his pale skin to my touch, my tongue. God, yes, I wanted to lick him everywhere, bite him again and again, and hear his whimpers and cries for more.
But what if it was too soon? What if that form brought bad memories and fears back to the surface? It had barely been a day since we’d escaped.
“What’s wrong?” he whispered.
I shook my head. “Nothing.”
He nodded but seemed distracted. “Can you, um… Um…”
“Anything, Wiley. I’ll give youanythingyou wish.”
He nibbled his bottom lip adorably and sat back on my lap. “Can you be your, um… Your bat form again?”
Had he read my mind? “I’d feared you might associate that with pain and your own abduction.”
“What? No! I mean, youwerescary at first, but then everything after that was…” He licked his lips, his eyes going liquid with lust. “The crazy sexy man bat that saved my life, like, five times in under twenty minutes.”
I’d been described in many ways but… “Crazy sexy man bat?”
“Ugh!” He thumped both fists against my chest. “Just get naked and batty. I want toexplore you, alright?”
My worries allayed, I sat up and kissed him. “Yes, dear.”
Wiley backed off my lap, and I leaned forward to follow him. I took a moment to toe off my stolen shoes but then let my shift happen. Cloth ripped every which way as my much larger form took over and shredded my clothes. He gasped, his gaze flicking everywhere at once like he was compelled to take in all of me. I loved seeing his reaction and grinned devilishly as I grabbed him up, flapped my wings, and darted up to the loft bedroom as he hollered in sudden alarm.
“You wicked beast,” he said with a frown as I set him down.
I snarled to reveal my fangs and tore open the seat of his trousers. “I’ll show you beastly…”
Chapter
Seven
MONSTER BY INJECTION
Heart racing from that stunt flying us up here, I gasped now because he’d just destroyed my only pair of pants. “Hamilton. These are the only clothes I have right now,” I said sternly.
He hooked a claw over the top button of my shirt and then honest-to-god cut every single one of the buttons free as he drew that claw downward. Yeah, I wasn’t dealing with the snooty royal anymore. I’d been right to call him a beast.
I poked him at the base of his throat because I couldn’t reach his forehead. “You’re going to stay right there, wings open, hands on your hips, feet apart, and—” cock up and glistening, apparently— “wait right like that until I’m finished looking at you. I’d like to remind you that this is my first chance to really see you without fearing for my life and stuff.”
That sobered him up, and he did exactly as I’d said. It was a Superman pose and he was a Bat-man, which made me chuckle to myself as I took off my ruined clothes and toed off my shoes. Man-bat. Werebat? Vampire bat shifter? No wonder they called themselves Contestrello—it probably translated to one of those but it sounded way cooler.
Once I was naked, I walked around behind him to get a good, up-close look at his wings. I was pretty sure actual bats had their arms as part of their wings, not separate, but Hamilton’s wings looked a little bit like long, skinny fingers. He shivered when I caressed the flat panels between those fingers, which felt velvety soft. I wondered if he could pick things up with his wings but didn’t want to talk about it right this second.
His ass was covered by a furry triangular tail. It was the cutest thing! I had to clear my throat to keep from laughing, but he still shot a squint-eyed look over his shoulder. I petted the russet-colored fur before walking around to the front of him.
We did need to talk about his cock.
“So you’re pre-lubed there, huh?”
