Under the Lupine Moon (Silver Rapids Book 1) by A. Knightley

Author:A. Knightley [Knightley, A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A. Knightley
Published: 2024-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Finn

Jaime was taking the revelation that supernatural beings exist so remarkably well that Finn was certain he was still in some prolonged state of shock.

Surely, he should take him to the hospital for a check-up? No one could handle what had happened in the past eight hours as well as Jaime was.

However, another very insistent part of Finn was begging him to take the man upstairs to his bed and claim him, to bite him and fuck him and come deep inside of him so that the world would know that Jaime was his.

“You’re staring again.” Jaime said it like an observation, not a complaint.

“I’m sorry. I keep wondering if maybe you’re still in shock and I should take you somewhere. I just, uh, never expected you, or anyone really, to be so casual about learning all of this. Also you’re the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen, and it’s going to take me quite a while to get used to being in the same room as you.”

The last part sort of fell out, but, well. They were being honest, right?

Jaime blinked, mossy green eyes processing. He cocked his head at Finn. “How many people have you told? About, you know.” He waved his hands at him in the gesture he made when he was referring to Finn’s wolf.

“My shift.”

“Huh?”

Finn gave him a half smile. “We call it a shift. I’m a wolf shifter. So are Silas and Sheppard. We have a partial shift, the one you saw today, and a full one, where we look like very large wolves. But there are other shifters like us who take other forms. Foxes, bears, deer. Some other things. So, we call it a shift.”

Now it was Jaime’s turn to stare. Finn took a step toward him, bringing their chests close enough to meet with each inhale. “And, to answer your first question—no one, Jaime. I’ve told no one, because there’s never been anyone I wanted to tell. Not until you.”

“Oh.”

Finn felt Jaime’s exhale puff against his neck, and he fought to hide the canines that had refused to go away since dinner, when he’d had to rein himself in from growling at Silas to get out before bending Jaime over the kitchen counter. “Oh?”

Jaime narrowed his eyes in playful exasperation. “Yes. Oh.”

Finn laughed, but Jaime’s blink of surprise at his exposed canines had Finn snapping his mouth shut and stepping back.

But a cool, freckled hand cupped his face and halted his retreat. Jaime’s eyes were soft like new grass, and he did not look away. “Will you show me again? Your shift?”

“Jaime, you don’t have to⁠—”

“You don’t need to take me to the hospital, Finn. I’m not in shock. I’m not sure I have the words to explain why, or how, but I feel free. I feel like I can see things more clearly now, like I understand more of what I have found myself involved in, and that makes me feel better. I feel more like myself than I have in a very long time.

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