as he felt his control slipping away, and his paws began to morph
back into hands and feet against his will.
Now he was the one involuntarily shifting. Again.
What in the cat hell was this female doing to him?
* * * * *
Sofia mewed in surprise to suddenly find Nathan as a man
underneath her. Hard and warm and naked and gorgeous.
Maldito caliente —the things she wanted to do to this
man!
But the moment her mind went there, she felt the pull, a tug
at her heart, her soul. She shuddered all over and then the next thing she
knew, she was shifting back to human form as well, against her will.
She was straddling him, with her knees on the ground on
either side of his waist and her palms near his shoulders. She was instantly
and innately aware that they were both naked in this intimate position. Her
breasts swung freely above him, just inches from his face, and she could feel
his pubic hair against her bottom.
Even though she was in human form, she continued to purr
steadily.
Nathan stared up at her, the expression on his face
something between a gape and a laugh. “Okay then,” he said, his voice raspy
with his bemusement. “This is interesting.”
She considered getting up but her body wouldn’t move,
unwilling to relinquish being this close to him. “I think it’s you,” she said
softly as the realization became clear. “It’s you that’s making me change
against my will.”
He furrowed his brows. “Me? What do you mean?”
“Well, I feel something strange happen whenever I’m a cat
and you’re a human, or when I’m a human and you’re a cat. It’s hard to explain
but it’s like… Well, it’s like…”
“Like you can’t control yourself?”
“Something like that, I guess. But when you and I were both
in cat form at the same time, I didn’t feel it. That was the longest I’ve
remained shifted yet, and I didn’t even have to think about it too much.”
He cocked his head. “Are you thinking anything whenever that
happens? Of doing anything? Or anyone?”
The playful glint in his eyes gave it away that he’d already
had a good idea, but she answered anyway. “Straddling you like this,” she
admitted.
“Oh yeah? Well that explains it.” He smiled and bent his
arms to put his hands behind his head. “You want me. We can’t mate in
mismatched forms, so your body changes to match mine.”
“Does that always happen to us when we’re attracted to
someone?”
“No, it’s something we can usually learn to control. You’re
just new to all of this. Although,” he cocked his head, “that doesn’t really
explain what’s happening to me.”
“To you?”
“I’ve been involuntarily shifting lately too. When we were
on the plane and you almost made me come, I started going Cat. I had to run to
the bathroom before there was a mountain lion in the seat next to you.”
“Are you serious?” She laughed.
He nodded. “And just now, when I shifted back—that wasn’t
intentional. Before our flight together, this pretty much never happened to
me.”
“So you’re having the same problem I am?”
“No, don’t think so. I mastered shifting a long time ago,
back when I was a teen. Plus you’re shifting to match me. But I’m shifting when
we’re already matched.”
Sofia frowned. “What does that mean? You don’t want me?”
He reached up to put his hands in her hair, twirled his
fingers in it. “Believe me, that’s not the case.”
Heat pooled in her belly. There was an ache somewhere deep
within her, a sexual itch that she was certain only he could scratch. “Good,”
she said, her voice husky and shaky. “Because I want you so bad, it hurts.”
He grabbed her head and pulled it down toward him, their
faces just a breath apart. “Then let me kiss it and make it all better.”
Slowly Sofia lowered her face even closer to his. She
alternated her gaze between his full, slightly parted lips and those hypnotic
dark-green peepers of his. Lining up her mouth with his, she
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