Just Like Cats and Dogs (Sanctuary Book 1) by BA Tortuga

Author:BA Tortuga [Tortuga , BA]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Turtlehat Creatives
Published: 2019-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

15

The moon. The moon. The moon. He sat at the window and stared, vibrating softly. It was coming. Soon. Sam could feel it, battering at him.

He could feel Gus too. His lover was sleeping, but the bond was there between them, a constant, low hum.

Sam wasn’t sure how he’d managed it—mating with a wolf—but he had. And Gus felt it too. Gus had said it out loud. God, what a trip. He chuffed softly—at himself, at Gus. They couldn’t be mates, could they? He was a city-living freak; Gus was a rock hound.

Rock hound.

That was bad.

He heard a loud, squeaky yawn and turned to find Gus staring at him. “Hey, Puss.”

“Pup.” He smiled over, stretched lazily. “Moon’s coming.”

“Uh-huh. Starving. Ready to run. You should come out with me tonight.”

“Out? Out there?” The fear he felt was immediate, undeniable. Was the man insane? “No. No, you can’t go out there.” It wasn’t safe.

It wasn’t sane.

“What? It can’t be that bad with two of us to keep an eye out.” Gus smiled, completely at ease.

“There’s nowhere to go, Pup. Only concrete and death.” More teeth and claws than one man could fight.

“There has to be a place where I can see the moon, Puss.” The smile was fading, Gus shifting from foot to foot.

This was never going to work. He had to get Gus out of the city, first thing in the morning. If he got Gus a flight out of La Guardia early enough, his mate would be home in the afternoon. Free. He opened the curtains wider, the huge bay of one-way windows bared to the sky, before heading to his computer and pulling up Travelocity. “Does that help?”

Gus didn’t understand. They were out there, and there were more of them than even two of them could fight. Tonight, they were inside.

“It does.” But Gus didn’t go to the window, he came to Sam, hands on Sam’s shoulders. “What are you doing?”

“Getting you a flight home first thing in the morning so you can run.” Giving his mate what was important and right. Necessary.

“You’re coming with me, then, right?”

He looked up, wanting to more than breathing, but he wasn’t a kitten anymore, wasn’t footloose and fancy free. “So that you can lock me in a little room? Here I have some space. Security. There’s no room for me there. I’m not pack.”

The words were true; even Gus had said them. He didn’t belong, not during the moon. It was the way of things.

“Who said we had to go to the gathering?” Gus squeezed his shoulders. “I know this mine in Nevada. I have a cache there. During the moon, it looks like an alien landscape.”

“Oh.” He leaned into the touch, eyes crossing at the sheer, unadulterated pleasure that was huge. Vast. The biggest thing he’d ever felt. “I would, Gus, but I have to be here the day after. It’s the last week of rehearsals on the show. After… if you want?”

Please want. Please? He’d told himself he didn’t want Gus to need him, but he did.

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