Chapter 4
Mateo ate his food glumly and waited until Dazi knocked on the door. Dazi as a mountain lion had been docile, but Mateo wasn’t sure how Dazi the human would act towards him after what he had done. As much as Mateo didn’t want to think about it, he couldn’t get the image out of his head. There was Dazi on the floor, his long tail swishing back and forth, the scent of his virility filling Mateo’s head. His humanity relaxed, allowing his jaguar side to take over, and it wasn’t until Dazi almost literally knocked the sense back into him that Mateo realized what he wanted. Lonely and heartsick as he had been these past few years, he wasn’t about to take someone like that, particularly someone who had been a stranger not a few hours ago.
When Mateo opened the door, Dazi was smiling.
