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“Adam…” I groaned out his name softly. “Adam…”

“Hmm?” he answered. “Tell me if I’m doing it too hard and it’s hurting you.”

I opened my eyes then and saw him still watching me, his face hard and his eyes dark. Had he been watching me this whole time? I swore it had been at least five minutes since he had started stroking me. I felt my heart skip a beat and then race. Oh, fuck, he looked so handsome.

I nestled my face against his neck and wrapped my arms around his shoulders, leaving the ice pack there on the bed, not caring that my right wrist was sprained and still sore. I just wanted him closer to me. I wanted to feel his hard body against me.

“No,” I mumbled. “You’re not hurting me.”

He was so gentle in stroking me, in fact, that I wanted to cry. Other men, the clients and those street gangs, they didn’t give a fuck about my feelings, whether they hurt me or not. In fact, they loved it that they hurt me. They enjoyed seeing the pain etched on my face. But Adam was different. Adam cared about me. He cared about my feelings, and I felt like my heart could burst with joy.

I didn’t know how long we sat there, with Adamgently stroking my cock and cradling me in his arms and me feeling the slow burn of pleasure coursing through my body, the likes of which I had never felt before, but I loved it, enjoyed it, and never wanted it to end. I wanted Adam to go on forever doing this to me, but then it had to end soon, because Chase was coming and my cock felt like it was about to burst.

I tensed as I tightened my arms around Adam’s neck, and then I came, ecstasy washing over me long and slow, again and again. I was shuddering and squirming in Adam’s arms, breathing heavily as my head blanked out. I was still shaking when I felt Adam’s lips on my forehead.

“Feeling better?” he asked a moment later, once I managed to open my eyes.

Breathless, I nodded. “Mm-hmm.”

I couldn’t believe I came so hard. I never came that hard, even with a high dose of the aphrodisiac drug.

Adam lifted me off his lap then and put me on the bed. He said, “Let’s get some breakfast. Join me when you’re ready.” After ruffling my hair, he walked out the door.

Alone, I brought my knees up and hugged myself tightly, my head in a daze and my face hot. My heart was still racing.

I fell onto my side and just lay there, staring into space. Fuck, I couldn’t believe Adam had just given me a hand job. I couldn’t believe Adam touched me and he had been so gentle.

Again, I felt my heart aching in that emotional way,and this sense of hope and joy and warmth once again washed over me.

I love Adam,the words echoed in my head, a smile on my lips.

19

Shiro

For the rest of the morning, I couldn’t look Adam in the eye whenever we spoke. I’d look at anything else but him, and I knew he found it irritating. I didn’t want him to be annoyed with me, but fuck, I couldn’t help myself. Anytime I saw his face, I’d remember his naked body and the way he had touched me, and I’d start feeling hot and bothered and my heart would race like crazy, apart from the fact that I wouldn’t have been able to pay attention to what he was saying anyway.

It was nearly one in the afternoon when the doorbell rang, which meant Chase was finally here. Thank goodness for that because I didn’t think I could bear being alone with Adam much longer. The hot, intense atmosphere I felt with him around was just too much for me at the moment.

Adam was on the phone with somebody and it sounded important, so I said to him, “I’ll get the door.”

From the distance, he nodded, and I left the livingroom and headed to the front door. With a grin on my face, I reached my left hand out and turned the handle. As I swung the door open, I expected to see Chase’s tall, lean frame before me, but instead, I saw a woman standing there.

She was beautiful, I guessed, with blond hair and green eyes, and she was wearing a nice-looking dress and coat. She stared at me for a moment, and I, too, stared at her, wondering who she was. Then she flicked her gaze to my fox ears, widened her eyes as if in horror, and she started screaming her head off like a banshee.

The noise was ear-deafening, and I panicked the moment I realized what was going on. Of course, she didn’t expect to see a fox boy opening the door of a penthouse, right? But who was she?

My mind raced, and it came down to only one conclusion. The woman must be Adam’s girlfriend.

Fuck, I knew it. I shouldn’t have stay with Adam. Now I had caused trouble for him.

The woman was still screaming as I continued to panic, freaking the hell out with no clue what to do. I had never had much contact with women before, except Mom, and I certainly had never had any contact with a human one.

“Beastkin! Beastkin!” she shouted hysterically, pointing at me. “Help! A beastkin! Help!”

Help?But I didn’t do anything to her. I didn’t even touch her.

She thrust the door open wider and I staggered back, my heart racing. Then she threw her bag at me, attackingme. I saw it coming and swiftly shifted away in time, and the bag hit the wall of the hallway with a loudthud.