stride. Then again, Sebastian was an honest-to-goodness vampire! So maybe there were were wolves in the world too. Both men seemed to believe it.
“There are other shapeshifter tribes,” Matt went on, “that share their souls with different animals. Sebastian has a few friends among them, so you may meet one now and again, though historically the were usually don’t have much to do with your kind.
Just like humans, there are few of your kind we trust, but I’ve known Sebastian a while.
He’s okay.”
“Glad you think so, cub.” Sebastian chuckled, though his eyes followed every movement of Matt’s roving fingers playing through the neatly trimmed curls covering her mound.
Christy was glad she’d groomed shortly before Jeff had gone nuts on her. She liked to keep herself tidy, with a little thatch of curls at the top of her thighs. She liked the way it looked and felt, and if she was any judge, the were cougar sitting between her legs liked it too. She could smell his arousal. When she inhaled noticeably, Sebastian smiled.
“You are learning his scent differences already, aren’t you? Can you differentiate the subtleties? Can you smell your excitement separate from his…and mine? Concentrate, little one. Work out the scent trails in your head. Learning to control and use your newly enhanced senses will help you in the future. Eventually, you’ll be able to actually smell a lie, with practice. If nothing else, learning the scent differences of were will help you know when you’re in the presence of one of Matt’s brethren. They’re not always easy to 24
spot, since they blend among humans so well, but their subtle scent differences are unmistakable.”
She was fascinated as the wafting fragrances filtered through her nose. It felt like she’d never really smelled anything before and only now, her senses were coming to life.
She tried to listen to Sebastian’s rich voice as he coached her, but it was hard to focus as Matt’s shaggy head lowered and his long tongue darted out to lick her clit. Her thighs widened even further, seemingly of their own accord. She’d never felt sensations like this. Matt’s skilled tongue rasped along her folds, driving her so high, she felt as if she might take flight. And she wanted more.
“Concentrate now, cara mia ,” Sebastian whispered, nuzzling at her neck. “Listen to the pulse of his blood, the way it flows through his veins. He’s got a healthy circulatory system. All were do. Sometimes that alone can identify them as were and not human to my ears. Do you hear it?”
She thought she understood. If she listened closely, her ears were telling her things they never had before. She could hear the swish of Matt’s blood, so different from the gentle gurgle of Sebastian’s. She could almost taste the wild scent of Matt’s skin, subtle and musky, and altogether inflammatory, so different from Sebastian’s enticing male fragrance. If she had to give it a name, she’d say Matt smelled like carnal lust while Sebastian was outright sin.
And she wanted them both. She shocked herself with the thought and with the knowledge that she could have them both. Tonight.
She’d fantasized about such things, but her sex life up ’til now had been rather tame.
A late bloomer, she hadn’t experimented much in college and married soon after graduating. Things had been good with Jeff at first, though he wasn’t very inventive in bed. That had been a disappointment, but one she was willing to live with when she still believed the marriage could be saved. Then the real troubles had begun with Jeff, and they’d stopped having sex altogether over a year ago.
But Jeff was in jail for the moment, and she was…well, she was different. Just how different, she had yet to discover, but she was going to enjoy this freedom from reality 25
while she could. Soon enough she’d have to deal with the fallout of her life and her embattled marriage.
She could never go