Just Like Cats and Dogs by BA Tortuga

Author:BA Tortuga [Tortuga, BA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63533-298-8
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2017-01-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

SAM PANTED through his mouth, eyes rolling. Every fucking bone in his body hurt, and he was 98 percent sure he wanted to die.

Maybe ninety-nine.

He thought about Gus a lot these days, dreamed about the warm eyes, the shaggy hair and hot body. His mate. It was a touch ridiculous that he’d lose his mate immediately upon finding him. Still, it made sense. No cat should mate with a wolf, and he was being punished for it, right? That and he’d made himself both a target and a curiosity. He should have kept his head down and done his job and….

“Sammy?” Marina’s voice sounded low and scared. “Sammy, don’t be dead.”

He tried to open his eyes, but maybe this time she’d kill him, let him free.

She hovered over him, her lipstick a dark smear floating around in his swimmy field of vision.

“Oh, good.” She rumbled softly. She smelled so good today. Somehow, he thought she smelled like Gus. How weird was that?

Sam made a soft sound, his claws retracting and pushing. No, not claws, fingers.

“That’s right. He’s here. He came, just like you said. I need you to wake up, Sam.”

No. No, Gus was gone. This was a trick that Cedric had forced Marina to perform. He couldn’t blame her, but he wanted to bite her anyway.

She reached out to touch the cage, and he could smell Gus, right there on her arm. “You have to wake up.”

“Gus?” Was that his voice?

“Soon, Sam. Soon. You have to be ready for him, now. Tonight.” Her voice was an urgent, growling whisper.

Sam blinked. “Tonight?”

“Yeah. I have to go. I’m going to give you a little shot, which will be a boost, and unlock you. You get ready.”

“A shot.” He was a cat. Did she know how to dose a cat? Shit. Gus was there? Really there? He might just fall over. “Please don’t lie to me.”

“I haven’t lied to you yet. Your mate says they’ll bring me too. That I’ll come too.” Oh, sweet baby.

“They?” His lips were so dry that every word felt like sandpaper passing over them, and he wanted to scream when the shot went in.

“Your brother and sister. Please, get ready.” The silver cuffs fell from his ankles, his wrists. “Soon. Minutes, okay?”

He tried to answer, but his mouth wouldn’t work. The room was beginning to breathe, expanding and contracting like his eyes were bulging or something. He might be able to walk. Maybe. Marina slipped away like smoke, and he was left wondering if he’d hallucinated it all.

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