Page 43 of Mytho Investigations: Side Stories

With neither of them wanting to pull away even if they could, they sat on the kitchen floor, drinking their beer, tied together. As Jake’s knot shrank, he wanted Adam to stay, but he also didn’t want to be the one to ask.

“Would you like the first shower?” Jake asked the safer question.

“Sure… Do you still want to get pizza? I’ll order while you shower?”

“I would love to have pizza with you.” Jake licked Adam’s ear, glad that he was staying this time. They’d only gotten together twice and already Jake was falling for this wild human. But could they have more than just sex?

What else could they have? It wasn’t as though they could go on a date, at least not in human areas.

“Important question, and this is a deal-breaker, by the way.” Adam twisted and stared at him, so Jake knew he needed to pay attention. “Do you eat pineapple on pizzas?”

“I do.” He hoped that was the right answer.

CHAPTER 4

Adam held out the bag. “I thought we could do a puzzle, and watch TV, and…” His cheeks darkened, and the raw scent of lust on his skin increased.

Jake accepted the bag and let him in, not sure what to think. Yes, he liked Adam coming over and enjoyed spending time with him, but it wasn’t more than sex… or was it?

It would be rude of him to point out that Adam smelled like he wanted sex and was trying to hide behind the present. The trouble was as soon as he smelled Adam, his own dick got a bit ahead of itself.

Adam’s hand brushed over Jake’s stomach as he paused to kiss the corner of his mouth. Unable to resist, Jake put a hand around Adam’s waist and nuzzled into his neck, giving his ass cheek a taste of claws the way the human liked.

Jake shut the door and peered into the bag. Inside was a 500-count puzzle of cats and a six-pack of beer. “Thank you.”

“I don’t even know if you like doing jigsaw puzzles.”

“Neither do I.” Jake put the bag on the kitchen table and pulled two beers out, offering one to Adam. “Would you like one now?”

“Yeah.” Adam twisted off the cap and took a long swallow while looking anywhere but at him. “Did I make this weird?”

“No, but you smell like you want to take my clothes off, so I’m confused by the pretense.”

Adam gave a nervous laugh. “I want to get to know you better. At first, I just wanted to…”

“Experiment with a werewolf?” Jake finished for him. He’d never put “experiment with a human” on the list of things he wanted to try, which had been an error on his part. Not that he had a list. If he didn’t have a list, then he couldn’t be disappointed.

“Yeah.” Adam fiddled with the cap he still had in his fingers. “But after last time…” He drew in a breath, making Jake wonder if the memory was a bit too much. “I want to see if this can be more. If you want more, that is.”

Jake stared, not sure what to say, torn between saying yes, he wanted more, and refusing to think it was even a possibility. He was making the most of what they had—which was a lot of very good sex. He’d never grow tired of blow jobs, and that was a fact.

But Jake couldn’t see a world where human-werewolf relationships were accepted, especially when humans refused to accept any kind of human-mytho relationship. The knight of the city was mated to a human cop and there was always talk about that. Then there was his ogre friend, Troy, who was getting grief from the other ogres for messing around with a human man. At least the other werewolves in Jake’s circle didn’t care about Adam, though they had commented on his visitor, but he didn’t want Adam getting hurt or being called out in the media.

“How can we have more when I don’t get to be more than this?”

“It’s not always going to be like this. The ‘Mythological Person Bill’ will be voted on soon.”

Jake groaned. “Don’t remind me. I may end up on the not human list.” He peered at Adam as he took a gulp of beer. If he lived in Europe, he’d already be classified as human, which would have made things easier between them.

“I don’t believe that,” Adam murmured. He was too hopeful and kind.

“You don’t want to believe that because it would put you in a very awkward position.” And Jake didn’t know what would happen to him or the other mythos who weren’t people. Would they lose their jobs? What were they supposed to do then?

Adam stared at the beer in his hand. “It’s not your fault you’re stuck mid-shift, all furry and…” He swallowed. “Well, we both know I like your fur and claws.”

“Even if I regained the ability to shift, I’m still what the anti-mytho mob are calling ‘a part-time animal.’”

“But when you shift, you’re still you, right? It’s only your body that changes, not your mind?”