To Catch His Mate
To A. Thanks for the idea, and helping me to see this through.
Prologue
Hungry. I was so hungry. And scared.
I felt so alone in this place—wherever it was—and helpless. Everything was too loud, the smells too strong. The birds in the trees, the rustle of the wind, it was all too close to be comfortable. I purred and growled at the animals I came across, trying to communicate or lure them to me, but they ran away. Instinct said I knew how to hunt. I tried and failed, constantly. I was lost.
The human part of me shrank away from fresh kills, but the beast…The beast was starving. Eventually, I’d have to eat more than worms and roots. The rodents made my stomach turn, but soon I knew I’d be too famished to care.
When I had awakened—whenever that was, I had looked down a
