The Better To Kiss You With by Michelle Osgood

Author:Michelle Osgood [Osgood, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Interlude Press
Published: 2016-04-09T00:39:45+00:00

Chapter Eleven |

“Well, that… happened,” Deanna managed faintly. Her ears rang in the echoing silence of the room. Jamie said nothing. Obviously. Because she was a wolf. And wolves didn’t speak. Or they couldn’t speak English, anyway. Unless werewolves had English-compatible voice boxes? Deanna could feel that small thread of hysteria becoming bigger and she clamped her mouth shut on the trilling laugh that bubbled in her throat.

As a wolf—a werewolf—Jamie was over twice the size of Arthur. Maybe three times bigger if Deanna counted not just height, but girth as well. Jamie’s eyes were no longer the heady bourbon-brown Deanna was used to, but a clear, icy gray that looked oddly familiar. She was white around her muzzle, brownish-tan ran up the bridge of her nose, darker gray masked her eyes and brindled fur continued down her sides and, presumably, her back.

Deanna sat up, her brain buzzing with blank static. “Does this mean what I think it means?” she asked absently. “Did the Twilight books get something right?”

Jamie’s jaw parted to reveal a set of wicked white fangs before her tongue lolled out, and Deanna thought that meant she might be laughing.

“Holy shit. Holy fucking shit.” Deanna reached out a hand before she could think better of it, her fingers trembling. With a cautious movement, as if trying not to scare Deanna, Jamie dropped her head so that Deanna could touch her.

Jamie’s fur was coarser than Arthur’s, thick and heavy under the palm of Deanna’s hand. As she stroked it, she felt for all the world as if she were petting a giant dog.

“Okay. Um. Well.” Deanna swallowed and tried to get a handle on what had just happened. “So you’re a werewolf. That’s a thing. A thing that people can be.” She pulled her hand away, staring at her own palm as if she’d never seen it. “Okay. Wow.”

Jamie shifted, and Deanna figured it was as close to a shrug as she could manage now that she had four legs. Deanna flattened her hand against the bed, not entirely sure what to do now. What did you say to your girlfriend, who had literally turned into a bitch in front of your eyes? Especially when it seemed she couldn’t say anything back?

Jamie made a low noise in her throat, not quite a whine, but didn’t move from where she sat on Deanna’s floor.

“Um. I think it would be good if you went back to being human for now. If you can?”

Jamie nodded—weird, seeing a giant wolf nod—and backed up. Deanna took a deep breath and steeled herself, half wanting to look away but horribly fascinated, as Jamie seemed to expand and then shrink and the coat of fur vanished. As suddenly as she’d shifted the first time, Jamie was crouched naked and human on the hardwood.

“Hi,” Deanna said, her eyes so round she could feel them bulging and thought they might fall right out of their sockets.

“Hey,” Jamie replied softly, staying small and crouched as though unsure how Deanna would react, but ready to cringe away if need be.

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