“Because I don’t want to do any more plumbing today. Or painting. Or sanding, hammering, or patching. I want to see you fly.”
“All right.”
Just like that? I should have asked sooner. If I’d thought of it.
“Do you have to go outside to do it?”
He reached out and pulled me against him, resting his head on my shoulder. “No, omega. It’s not like my other form is an elephant or a rhinoceros. I’m a crow, only a little bigger than the standard version.”
“Oh. That makes sense. But isn’t it nicer to fly outside?”
“That it is. Let’s open a window, and I’ll give you a little bit of a show.” He was stripping as he spoke, distracting on my worst days, but I wanted to see his crow, to meet his animal, enough to convince myself that I could have my way with him later, or his way with me, whichever. He was not one of those alphas who had to be in charge all the time, bossing every omega that crossed his path. When he was naked and gorgeously so, he faced me. Not hard…a first when one of us had our clothes off. “Watch carefully, omega. This goes fast.”
Fast? Understatement of the year. Corvus stood there, all that lean muscle with a human structure one second, and the next, there was an odd popping sound and he was gone, replaced by a bird with glistening black feathers, a fierce beak, and black eyes that stared into my soul. I reached out, but he hopped from the floor to the windowsill and leapt into the air, wings stretching out to keep him aloft then beginning to move.
I rushed to the window to see him soar up into the sky, growing smaller as he climbed. Then, when he was just a dot against the blue, he plummeted back down, wings tucked tight to his body, faster and faster. I held my breath, expecting him to crash into the ground. Just short of that, his wings spread, and he swooped over the yard, inches from dead lawn.
As I stood and watched, he climbed again, in big looping circles this time, then flew back to the window and landed on the sill, right in front of me.
I reached for him, unsure if this wild creature would allow me to touch him, but he did. More than allow, he preened under my touch. “You’re so smooth, so silky,” I marveled. “And your flight…wow.”
Thepopagain and there he was, standing just inside the window.
Naked.
And it occurred to me I was wearing too many clothes. I pulled off my shirt.
“Omega, are you a shifter?”
“No, but I have something else to show you.” I unfastened my pants, my cock jutting out past the open fly.
“That’s also very nice.”
“I hoped you’d think so.”
Chapter Fifteen
Corvus
A few days after I showed my omega my other form, we were painting his bedroom when he set his brush down and placed a hand on his hip. Since the last time he stopped working we had a very fun afternoon, I set my brush down too. “Anything wrong, Joshua?”
“When we were at the festival, you said we would be neighbors soon.”
“Right.” I vaguely remembered saying something like that. “We will be.”
“But I have no idea where you live.”
Goddess, he actually didn’t. “I guess that’s true. It hasn’t really come up. But since I’ve been walking over here every day, or flying lately, you probably guessed it’s not far.”
“I assumed, but where is it?”
I took his arm and turned him to face south. “It’s just behind that hill. Our properties actually abut. Would you like to see it? It’s nothing special, really.”
“Of course I want to see where you live. What kind of a mate would I be if I didn’t?”
“The best kind. As always. But if you don’t mind taking a break, we can go over there now.”
“Walking?”
