Kehl was that missing puzzle piece. He completed me.
His hand lifted and he went to brush the back of his hand down my face. Everything in the male stilled. He froze as his gaze caught on his hand. Had he injured it somehow? What was wrong.
Cupping his hand, I turned my face to kiss his palm and then nuzzle into it. He had long claws like this. Maybe I should be freaking out or something like he appeared to be, but was it all that far a stretch, knowing what I now know, that my mate couldn’t have a second form?
If the experiment had worked with the Grays, I’d have had three forms, human, Lepyr, and Lo denaii, none of the latter the real me if you asked me.
This was the real Kehl.
The antler-like horns, the dark claws, the white eyes tipped in molasses. He’d slipped into a shift mid coitus. That couldn’t be coincidental.
“What’s wrong?” I murmured as he gaped down at his heavily clawed fingers. He was a little less hairy in this form, patches of greyish white skin absent of fur. There was a deeper ring of grey fur around his shoulder area. It made him look dangerous but sexy, like a naughty Krampus.
I’d loved Krampus stories as a child. My dad liked to try and scare me into being good with them but it never worked.
Strange garbled noises left my freshly claimed mate.
Meeting his panicked gaze, I didn’t understand at all. Did he not know he could shift? Had he never done so before?
A shocked yelp left him as his hand clapped to his face and he began to feel around. More distressed noises left him.
Growl-speak mumbles started up, soft at first but growing.
He was absolutely freaking out.
When he would have stumbled back, our joined bodies, locked together tight, protested.
A pained gasp tore from my throat that had him stopping immediately, but not before we both caught a glimpse of a red and white striped strip of the skin buried deep inside of me.
Curious as a shimmery, glittering sheen coated our groins spilled out in abundance, I reached between us, swiped my finger across the spillage, and brought it to my nose for a sniff. Huh. Peppermint.
A gurgling noise left my mate as my tongue darted out to taste and I smiled as creamy peppermint sent my taste buds dancing.
More gurgling noises left my male.
“Was I not supposed to do that?” I wondered aloud. My gaze traveled over him curiously. I liked both of his forms, maybe this one a smidge more because he didn’t hide himself from me this way.
A sharp knock at the front door interrupted my mate’s freak out over his current look. “Helloo? Sorry to just pop in like this, but we just wanted to see how Miss Prudence was doing?” It was the woman I’d first met, the one that patched up my head.
“No. No-no-no,” Kehl panicked. Like I wasn’t attached to him via dick to vagina, internal stuffing suffocation, he jumped like he’d been goosed and scrambled across the room.
My fingers latched onto his neck and held on tight. “What are you doing?” I whispered, aware that if the woman on the other side had her mate with her, and I was doubtful she went anywhere without him the way they were glued to each other’s side, they could hear Kehl.
A soft whimper of a noise left Kehl. He was completely freaking out but trying to be quiet about it.
“We, uh, we’re a little busy, if you catch my drift!” I called out. Cheeks reddening at what had just come out of my mouth, I’d tried to sound breathless, just had crazy Yetiman sex worn out.
Kehl paused, eyes bugging, to gape down at me, as if he could not believe what I’d just done.
Okay,thatmade me smile a little.
To be perfectly honest, he wasn’t all that much different than Rek’s Jo’s horned male. The horns were different, sure, but both still had head ornaments adorning their skulls. Kehl’s are better, I decided, studying him. Way better. It gave him a dark, dangerous air, like he’d spank me for being too impish instead of admirable. Ha.
A deep rumble sounding off on the other side of the door confirmed my suspicion that the woman had indeed been accompanied by the same mate. Unless he had like a twin or something with the same exact voice. I wouldn’t be surprised if doppelganger twin mates somehow ended up being the case either.
“Oh- Whoops!” the woman muttered quietly. Louder, she called out, “We’ll come back later! So sorry to bother you! I hope- Oof. What are you doing?”
“We come back later!” the male called out over her.
