Black Silk by Jan Gordon

Author:Jan Gordon
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: paranormal, romance
Publisher: Jan Gordon

Chapter Eight

My eyes snapped open at the scraping sound of a table chair being moved. Instinctively I shrank into my chair, moving it back a little further.

“No Vic. You made love with a man. A man who has come to care more for you than he should. I’m a man first. I live my life as a man. I only become a panther when I need to. And when you were in danger from that snake, I needed to.”

“But you didn’t change completely. I saw you, only your face and your forearm changed.”

“I didn’t need to shift completely and I didn’t want to. Shifting is hard work, it’s exhausting.”

“This is surreal.” Although I still couldn’t quite come to terms with the new reality, I had to believe the evidence I’d seen with my own eyes. My brain was kicking in and my normal practical mind was taking charge. “That was you inside the gas station. The clerk... he told the Sheriff about a large black cat that scared off the robber.”

“Yes, that was me.”

“When you got back to me you were sweating and breathing heavily.” Memories were flooding in. Things that had seemed odd were beginning to make sense.

“I’d shifted twice in as many hours and it’d taken it out of me. I felt like I’d run a marathon.” I guess it was time for honesty, for the explanations.

“Last night, when Kincaid was in my home and you chased him; I saw you.” In my mind’s eye I saw the large shadow by the fence, which at the time I’d thought had been a dog. “You chased him as a panther didn’t you?” He nodded but waited for me to continue. “The blood. The blood on the floor was his, and it was under your nails as well. You changed and swiped at him with your claws.”

Once again he nodded but remained silent.

I thought back to the scene in my kitchen the previous evening. “I saw your eyes last night, you know. They’d looked like Mister’s do when there’s a lot of light about. Your pupils had been pointed at the top and bottom. But then a minute later they’d been normal and I thought I’d imagined it.”

“Sometimes, when I’m in an emotional state it takes longer to shift back completely. Last night I was angry that Kincaid had dared to invade your home.”

The whole situation was very difficult to get my head around. The man sitting opposite me at the kitchen table looked like the same man who’d been so understanding on the fur rug only an hour or two earlier. I knew in my heart that he was the same man. But my perception of him had changed and that was a difficult obstacle to overcome. I had begun to care for Cole the man; could I care for Cole the were in the same way? Did I dare give him a chance? Before I could answer that, I needed to know more. “So, to sum up, you’re a man but you can become a big cat at will?”

“Yes.

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