Catch a Falling Tyger by CJ Cade

Author:CJ Cade [Cade, CJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Windtree Press
Published: 2020-06-12T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Chaz was packing to leave—or he was watching his robo-concierge pack his things—ready to leave the Quantum. He'd shower-dried and dressed, in one of his favorite lii silk knit loungewear, along with a skrog-wool vest, because he felt chilled, as if he was coming down with something. Something that made his chest ache. He rubbed his hand absently over his chest, feeling the whisper-softness of his vest.

Then he leaned back in the divan with a sigh. Face it, his illness wasn't a virus, it was caused by his emotions. He was heartsick, and angry and yet ... he wasn't ready to fly away in his private cruiser. He wasn't ready to leave this ship. He wanted...resolution. He wanted Roxie 'Rouge' Fellura here in his suite so he could glower at her, and snarl and growl and carry on. And then fuck her into oblivion. Fuck her right out of his head, and his heart.

When his comlink chimed, he nearly didn't answer it. Ives was supposed to monitor all incoming links, and after the debacle of letting in Chaz' old nemesis as a shift mate, both tygers knew they were on borrowed time as part of Chaz entourage. They were thus minding their tasks as personal assistants very carefully.

When the link chimed again, Chaz snapped, "Ives. I don't want to be bothered. What part of that is so difficult to understand?"

"Uh, Chaz," Ives said, sounding unusually subdued. "I think...you wanna take this one."

"What, is it from my folks?"

"No, but... just watch. And listen."

With a put-upon sigh, Chaz ended their link and opened the other. He froze when he saw Rouge—Roxie facing the camera in what was obviously a vid-message. Looking pale and tear-stained and good enough to lick all at the same time.

He sneered, ready to break the link, then sighed again, and sat back. "All right, have your say," he muttered, even though she couldn't hear him.

Then he watched, and listened. And watched it again.

Then he watched the holovid he'd taken of her pleasuring herself, because he'd asked her to. He saw again that bright, trusting smile, and then the way she arched when she came, and then heard her sweet giggle, giddy with pleasure and with the naughtiness of what she'd thought was a game.

And then he watched her face pale with horror at the sight of him in his normal state. And he turned up the volume and heard her whisper, "You! No...no!"

He stopped the vid before he had to listen to himself snarling all the icy crap he'd said.

One thought filled his mind.

She hadn't known who he was? She hadn't known Charlie Crawfur was Chaz Jaguari.

His family name truly was Crawfur. He'd been named Charlie after his great-grandfather, and because his mother thought first-century names were starry.

He'd taken the stage name of Chaz Jaguari because his first agent had assured him it was sexy, and he'd kept it because it was a layer of anonymity once he became a star.

But in his shift, he'd been unrecognizable as himself, except to a woman who knew him well.

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