Rick by Catherine Lievens

Author:Catherine Lievens [Lievens, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adult, GLBT, Gay, Paranormal, Erotic Romance, Shapeshifter
ISBN: 9781487405175
Publisher: eXtasy Books
Published: 2015-10-15T05:00:00+00:00

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Rick kept his eyes on Gentry but didn’t say anything.

“All right, Rick. Was there anything specific you wanted to talk about?” Gentry moved from where he was standing and sat on the couch. Rick followed his lead but made sure to sit far enough from him that Gentry couldn’t touch him even if he tried. He’d have to get up to do it, and Rick would have the time to move away.

“N-n-no.” He still wasn’t sure he actually wanted to talk to Gentry. The man was a stranger. Rick had a hard time talking to people he knew, never mind someone he’d never met.

“Okay, that’s fine. I’ll do the talking, then. Jared told me that you want to get better with the stuttering. That’s actually why he contacted me rather than someone else. I’ve worked with several stutterers on the psychological side of their therapy. You’re going to have to go to a speech therapist for the practical side of it, but I know enough to give you the info you might want right now.”

“Y-y-you know how t-t-to cure me?”

“I wouldn’t call it a cure. It’s called fluency shaping, and it’s going to take some hard work, but I’m sure you can do it. You’ll work on your speech characteristics and on relaxing the speech muscles and articulations. The trick here is to slow down when you talk. Have you noticed that you stutter less when you’re with people who don’t make you nervous?”

Rick had to think about it and he realized it was true. He didn’t stutter much when he talked with Arlen, and even with Cole and Zach the stutter wasn’t as bad as it’d been in the beginning. “Y-y-yes.”

“That’s because you’re more relaxed with some of them. I’m guessing one of the people is Cole?”

“Y-y-yes. He’s m-m-my mate.”

Gentry smiled. “That’s good.”

“W-w-what about the p-p-psychological p-p-part?”

“I’ll work with you on reducing your fears and accepting your stutter. I don’t know what happened to you, but I can imagine parts of it, I think. I know the stutter wouldn’t have been accepted by your pack, and that it was probably ingrained in you to see it as a defect.”

Rick nodded.

“Well, we’ll discuss that and how the stutter isn’t a defect. I’ll want to know what you think about it, how it influences your everyday life and things like that. If you want to tell me, of course.”

Rick shrugged. “I haven’t d-d-decided yet.”

Gentry nodded and smiled. “That’s fine. Kameron also asked me to try and help you dealing with your past, if you’re okay with it.”

“I d-d-don’t know. M-m-maybe?”

“We’ll do it as slow or as fast as you want.”

“D-d-don’t you have to go h-h-home?”

“Not for a while. Kameron asked me to stay at least for a year, longer if I think my patients still need me.”

“B-b-but... don’t y-y-you have f-f-family?”

Gentry’s smile fell a bit, but he was obviously trying not to let Rick see the question had hit him harder than he wanted to show. “No, not anymore.

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