Cheetahs Never Win by RJ Blain

Author:RJ Blain
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pen & Page Publishing

The first time Joe had poked through my memories, I hadn’t noticed him doing it. I assumed the transfusion and my weakened state had numbed me to his work. With time running short, he abandoned his finesse and stirred through my head with a red-hot poker. It hurt too much to scream, and my life flashed in front of my eyes, a confusing blur of images, sounds, and sensations.

He stopped and slowed every time I’d thought about his sister, and the instant I felt up for the task, I’d beat him black and blue over it.

When he got to the crash, I lost a few minutes of my life as the pain associated with the memory intensified beyond my ability to handle it.

I woke up to Joe slapping my cheeks.

“I really hadn’t wanted to do that, but it’s the only way I can access your memories. I have to rewind them,” he confessed. “Once you went down, I got what we needed. I’m sorry. If I could have prevented it, I would have.”

“That sucked. Can we not do that again?”

“That’s the idea. I rewound as far back as your first contact with Tom Heatherow.”

That would likely bite me in the ass later. “So, you’re saying you own my ass for the foreseeable future.”

“Something like that. You’re pathetic. I just thought you should know that. You really went through all that work to avoid her traps, cleaned up after her, and waited until she came over to dunk yourself so she could lick the skin off your face.”

“Basically, yes.”

“You were infected before the crash.”

I blinked. “Pardon?”

“You were infected before the crash. That’s Dad behavior. That’s ridiculously similar to Dad’s behavior. That’s breeding male cheetah behavior. When were you last tested?”

“Not that long ago.”

Joe’s eyes narrowed. “No. That’s definitely infected long-term behavior. That’s not ‘standard human hates women Aaron’ behavior.”

“It was one of my more desperate stunts,” I agreed.

“How long have you been buying my sister shoes?”

“Years,” I admitted.

“I’d probably kill you rooting through your memory for years, so I can’t look to see how the hell you contracted lycanthropy.”

“You seem a little sure I contracted lycanthropy.”

“Aaron, my sister’s tongue is worse than sandpaper. She can flay muscle from bone with that tongue. That’s what it’s there for. You should have been bleeding after she licked you for two hours. It hurt, but that was not the reaction of a standard human being licked. The virus was already there and healing your face. You barely had a mark on you after that. Slightly reddened cheeks. That’s a sure-fire sign of lycanthropy to me. But how the hell did you avoid detection? You’re checked how often?”

“Every two years when I’m renewing my license.”

“And you’ve been partnered with Sassy since you started college. Can you think of any time you might have mixed blood with Sassy?”

“Not that I’m aware of. She’s really careful about transmitting the virus. I’m not allowed to go anywhere near her if she thinks I might contract the virus.” I shrugged.

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