Cabaret Rollo Rouge by Sydney Blackburn

Author:Sydney Blackburn [Blackburn, Sydney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay, urban fantasy, romance, Paranormal
ISBN: 9781684312849
Publisher: Less Than Three Press, LLC
Published: 2018-05-08T22:00:00+00:00

Twelve

It was difficult to know at what point they completed their mating bond. Neither knew much of the ways of true mates, since they'd both always believed such a thing could never happen. Slowly the overwhelming desire to couple had given way to something gentler, more playful. When Garnet lay replete and exhausted against Carn's side, it occurred to him in an inappropriately random way, that as the first known rouge mates they ought to have documented it or something. He snickered, snuggling closer to Carn, who shifted position slightly to put a strong arm around him.

Carn himself sighed. "I hate to bring this up, my beauty, but...will you tell me why you rejected me?"

"Not you, not really." Garnet echoed the sigh. He told Carn about the death of his parents at the hands of human hunters when he was eight. He talked about Petra and how she had held them together, raising him and Lyndra as her own cubs though she was only seventeen herself at the time. "I don't know how she did it, kept us fed, and sane while dealing with her own grief."

"She is the one who made you outcast?"

"No. That was her mate." Garnet adjusted his head on Carn's shoulder. He didn't think he should feel so much like he belonged here, given the story he was telling, but he did.

Carn nodded encouragingly, a movement more felt than seen.

"Holt never liked me much, though I was just eleven at the time and clearly no threat to him. So when I realized I was different—rouge—just a couple years later, my sisters kept my secret. I didn't understand at the time how difficult it was for Petra to not tell him. I didn't understand anything, really, though I knew I'd have to leave. I just expected....On my eighteenth birthday, Holt drove me out, chased me, teeth literally at my heels." He raised himself up on one elbow so he could meet Carn's warm brown eyes.

"My father caught me balls deep in some hot Salish boy," Carn snickered. "He was furious—a rouge alpha, the worst kind of rouge. Took it like a personal affront. Kicked me out that day, with nothing but the clothes on my back. I was fifteen."

"Fifteen? How did you survive?" Garnet's tale of woe was comparable to those of the rest of his pack; he'd somehow thought they didn't come worse.

"Fell in with a human gang. That didn't last long, I was too arrogant, too..." He shrugged. "You know."

"Alpha?" Garnet suggested with a grin.

"You know it. In a lot of ways, going to prison saved me. I know six months doesn't sound like hard time, but you go six months without being able to shift."

Garnet drew his fingers across the scars on Carn's face. "That explains these." If one healed the way of the single natured, the scars would remain. It was also how he didn't need to pierce his ears after every change.

Carn caught his hand and brought it to his mouth. "Yeah.

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