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soothing the panic that had started to show. "Here, look at
this." Holding up his hand in front of Leo, he let his nails
elongate and sharpen. Leo gasped when the nails stopped
lengthening at two inches, vicious hooks looking deadly
and graceful all at once. "Complete control," Maddox said
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as he brought them back in. "Retractable claws are a feline
thing."
"Oh," Leo didn't know if he should be reassured or
freaked about it.
When Leo took too long thinking, Maddox stole a
kiss, bringing the attention back to him. "Are you okay
with this?" he asked, carefully trying not to breach any
boundaries better left alone between them.
Thinking about it, Leo replied truthfully, "I don't
really know." He was somewhat freaked and somewhat
turned on by it. But he just didn't know exactly how he felt
about it.
Maddox's shoulders slumped. He had hoped Leo
would have accepted it right away or at least that he'd be
okay with it. Even if he knew Leo had reasons to turn him
away, he still hoped.
"I'm not rejecting you," Leo added at Maddox's
defeated look. The hopeful look that looked up at him made
him feel like a jerk for having put such a dent in his mate's
ego in the first place. "I'll need some time is all, and if you,
er, we're going to& with your Triferus& " Leo stuttered,
his face as red as a fire-engine. "I'll need to get used to you
first."
Groaning, Maddox pulled Leo's face to his, delving
deep with his tongue, tasting his lovely mate. He wasn't
rejected; Leo was just nervous about being able to take him
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and he wanted to be with him, the real him, first. His lion
roared with satisfaction and made his presence known.
Leo's hips were grasped in a bruising grip as Maddox
ground his erection against Leo's ass.
Whimpering, Leo barely even had enough brain
power left to form a single thought as his mate claimed his
mouth. Maddox cleverly drew Leo's own tongue into his
mouth as he sucked on it. Leo's hips rocked against his
overheated mate.
With one hand hooked around Maddox's neck, he
let his other drift across his lover's face. After a moment, he
broke the kiss, much to Maddox's grumbled objection.
"You're really hot," Leo stated.
Maddox purred. "So are you, love, more than you'll
ever know." He pouted when Leo pulled back from him
when Maddox tried to kiss him again.
"Maddox I'm serious, you're burning up." Leo was
worried his mate might be coming down with something.
"I'm going to get Jace," he started to get up, but Maddox
pulled him back down again, making Leo's struggles to get
up to get the doctor futile.
"It's not catching," Maddox mumbled as he tried to
bring Leo's mouth back to his, frustrated when Leo pulled
back again.
"You shouldn't be messing about like this with a
fever, you need to lie down." Leo was persistent; there was
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no way he'd let Maddox overexert himself, it would only
make his fever worse. Getting up he reached for his mate's
large arm, urging him up. "Come on, you lie down in bed
and I'll go make you some chicken soup. That should fix
you right up." Leo tugged on Maddox's arm, but he didn't
move. An embarrassed look marred his mate's face.
"What?"
Maddox had to try hard not to look away as he
caught Leo's concerned look. "I'm not sick."
"Of course you're sick. If your fever gets any higher
than it already is " Leo tried to explain to his stubborn
mate, but was interrupted by the last thing he'd ever thought
would come out his mate's mouth.
"I'm in heat."
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Chapter 12
Leo was literally struck dumb by Maddox's
statement. Maddox was in heat? Was that even possible?
Maddox was a feline shifter, but still& "Isn't that a female
feline thing?" he asked dumbfounded.
"Not amongst shifters," Maddox muttered, suddenly
very fascinated with his shoelaces.
"So, you're in heat? Like with the whole& needs
thing?" Leo's brows were raised, making his curiosity
evident.
To answer Leo's question, Maddox sat up straight
and displayed the bulge inside his jeans. Leo's face turned
pink.
"So, does this happen often?" What Leo really
wanted to know was it like a seasonal thing or was it the
shifter version of PMS, coming once every month like
clockwork?
"The first time it happens is a few days after you've
found your mate. It happens about three or four times a
year after that."
"This is your first time, in heat, then? So, what is
the, ah, procedure for this being in heat thing?" Even
though he asked, he already suspected the answer.
Maddox let out an exasperated laugh. His little
minx of a mate was really going to make him say it out
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loud. Locking eyes with Leo, he answered his question
with one of his own. "We fuck like rabbits?"
Leo felt like the air had been knocked out of his
lungs. With all of Maddox's qualities, subtlety definitely
wasn't one of them. Blushing furiously, Leo struggled for
something to say. Coming up short, he bit his lip as he
tugged at Maddox's arm again, gesturing with his head to
the bedroom.
Maddox's eyes went wide and he couldn't get off the
ground fast enough. With what seemed like a blur, he swept
Leo into his arm and was already lowering his body to the
bed. He covered the lithe body of his mate with his own
much larger one before Leo even realized what was
happening. Backing off, Maddox needed to make sure Leo
consented to what was about to happen. If they got started,
he doubted he'd be able to stop.
He didn't need to ask; Leo had fastened his mouth
to his neck, making a claim of his own as he sucked up a
mark. At the same time, he let his hands work to unfasten
Maddox's belt. Groaning, Maddox threw his shirt over his
head. Almost instantly, Leo's eager hands travelled across
the planes of muscles exposed and his mouth latched onto a
dusky pink nipple.
Maddox couldn't have stopped the roar even if he
wanted to. Leo had taken him by surprise and even his lion
had trouble keeping up. When Leo bit down, Maddox
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growled. The denim and flannel of Leo's pajama bottoms
proved far too much of a barrier between their bodies. Leo's
pajama bottoms were turned to shreds in the matter of
seconds, Maddox's claws making quick work of them. With
only his zipper open Maddox grasped their needing limbs
together in a strong grip, jerking them off together.
Maddox seized Leo's mouth again as his erection
burned against his mate's touch at the devastating pace he'd
set. With his mouth being plundered by Maddox's strong
tongue, it only took a few more strokes before he let out a
scream, muffled only by Maddox's mouth. It didn't take
much more than that before Maddox quickly followed,
their mixed juices spread across their stomachs.
With both of them breathing hard from their release,
Maddox fell off to the side of his mate. "Needed to take the
edge off," he panted. Despite the mind-shattering orgasm,
his erection still hadn't gone down, and the heat inside of
him hadn't decreased a bit. If anything, it only flared
stronger.
"Mmm hmm." Leo drifted in a haze of pleasure; it
always seemed that Leo's systems went haywire whenever
his mate touched him. Looking over to his panting mate,
Leo realized Maddox's erection was still going strong, and
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