She smiled so sweetly that he wanted to learn how to make cornbread just so she could have as much as she wanted.
“I don’t know why,” she said, laying the piece on her plate and grabbing her knife.“But I can’t get enough of this stuff tonight.”
“Cravings already?”Zara asked.
“Maybe,” she said.She slathered it with butter and took a bite, groaning happily.“Heck yeah.I love this stuff.”
“I’ll make a double batch for dinner tomorrow night,” Zara said.“I didn’t know you liked it so much.”
“I didn’t, either.It’s really good, though.”
Zara had made a feast for dinner of pot roast with potatoes and carrots, piping hot cornbread, and chocolate pie for dessert.Tris had been off for the day, so Zara and Fallon had taken over the kitchen.
“I was thinking,” Fallon said as she polished off the last piece of cornbread, “that maybe we could do the shift and run tonight?It’s a beautiful night, and I hate that Avi and I didn’t get a chance to shift.”
He smiled.“I hated the interruption too.”
“My jaguar is feeling kind of cooped up.Not in a bad way, just that I feel like I need to get out and run.And I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to shift.My mom said at least a month or two, but every pregnancy is different.”
“I didn’t know you were feeling cooped up,” Avi said with a frown.
She shook her head.“It’s not a huge deal, it’s just kind of an achy feeling.I think I just want to commune in my jaguar form with my sexy stallion mate.”
He loved that she thought he was sexy.He sure as hell thought she was sexy.
Crew laced his fingers together on the table.“I think it’s a fine idea, but I’m going to suggest that only you two do the shift and run.We’ll have a couple of our people out with rifles to stand guard, but I don’t think having all of us in our shifts is a good idea right now.Not when we don’t know if Colton might strike again.”
“That works for us,” Avi said.
“I’ll stand guard,” Ford said.
“Me too,” Grey said.
“Thanks, guys,” Fallon said.
The males cleared the table and cleaned up the kitchen while the females chatted about Tatum and Grey’s suite that was being remodeled by Dexter, and the suite that he and Fallon were going to work on.The worst part of both remodels was that the rooms were full of junk, and that took time to go through.Before dinner, Avi had found two boxes of old tools that Ford had stashed in the room and forgotten about.He’d carried them out to the barn and helped sort and store them on the workbenches.
Slowly but surely the room would come together—his and Fallon’s and their baby’s.He couldn’t wait.
Once night fell, he and Fallon went to the barn to shift while Ford and Grey stood with rifles just outside.They were going to use the pasture and fields to run but stay relatively close to the farmhouse as a precaution.
He and Fallon stripped slowly, watching each other, and it was far too sexy seeing her wiggle from her jeans and wink at him.He was so tempted to toss her into one of the stalls and see how fast he could make her shout in pleasure, but she reminded him they had plans.
“Sexy stuff later,” she promised.
“You know it,” he said.
When they were fully stripped, she shifted first into a beautiful, sleek jaguar.She had the prettiest golden and white fur with black rosettes.She sat on her haunches and purred loudly, her whiskers twitching as she snuffled his skin and licked his neck.
“Gorgeous, sweetheart.I hope some of our kids can shift into jaguars.It would be so cool to have stallions and jaguars in our family.”
She let out a yowl of agreement.
“My turn.Stay close, don’t go chasing any bunnies.”
She wrinkled her nose but nodded, her tail swishing.
He stepped back and let himself go into his shift, taking on his golden-coated stallion form.When he’d shifted fully, he stood still and let her explore him, sniffing along his legs and then rising onto her hind legs and reaching a paw up to touch him.She purred happily, nuzzling him before lowering back to the ground.
