Wings of Love by Deirdre O'Dare

Author:Deirdre O'Dare [O’Dare, Deirdre]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Published: 2019-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Alex didn’t slow down until he got into some thick brush on the hillside several hundred yards above the rambling house. For a few minutes, he huddled silently under a low shrub, staying in his mouse form. Before he caught his breath, he saw a larger rodent, apparently a desert packrat, scrambling up to his hiding place.

::Is that you, Manuel?::

::Yeah, I think it is. This sure feels funny. Can we change back?::

::Do you sense anything close behind us?::

After a moment, the reply came. ::Not close. I changed a few seconds after you did and barely got out the door, but I think we confused them. They were expecting birds, not rats.::

:Okay.:: Alex moved out from under the bush and gathered his energy to shift back to human form. This was a jolt, different from coming to ground and changing from raven back to man. Of course, becoming the mouse had been a new effort, not familiar, and leaving it this first time was hard.

Manuel seemed to struggle a bit as well, but finally emerged as himself. “Damn it, partner, don’t ever do that to me again! I liked to shit when you changed, but I knew I had to do something fast or I’d be dead. Scared outta my skull, but I tried to picture a small critter I could become—wound up a packrat, I guess.”

Without thinking, acting purely on the spirit of the moment, Alex turned and gave his partner a spontaneous hug. “I’m sorry. I figured that might be our best, or even our only chance, and there was no time to warn you.”

For an instant, Manuel stiffened. Then he hugged back. It felt good, warm and secure, even comfortable. Finally, Alex could admit, at least to himself, that scared shitless was way too mild a term. It feels so fucking good to be alive. To be free.

“Hey, we make a pretty good team, don’t we?”

Although he could not see the other man’s face, Alex could hear the grin in Manuel’s words. He tightened his hold on the shorter man. “Yeah, we do. I never figured on that, but we do. Couple of crazy weird dudes, aren’t we?”

For a dozen heartbeats they stood holding each other, clasping and clinging as if they would fall apart if they let go. Then Alex’s cock twitched. Unless his imagination was still working overtime, Manuel had a similar reaction.

Alex disengaged, slowly and gently to prove he was not either afraid or offended. The sudden surge of attraction had nearly blindsided him, but somehow he could not reject the idea, It seemed almost inevitable, even appropriate. Then he realized a subtle sense of it had been shimmering under the surface for a few days now, waiting quietly like a dormant volcano for the right moment to burst free.

“We need to get as far from here as fast as we can. I hate like hell to leave my car, but I don’t think we’d better try to go get it, do you?”

Manuel had stepped back, too.

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