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play some more.” With that, he pressed his renewed erection into the cleft of her ass. In response, heat from her sex center rushed to every cell in her body.
    At the same time, shock and a new kind of fear that she could not define immobilized her. She was unable to argue as her body overruled her mind in her need to have him deep inside her once again. When he wrapped his arms around her middle and walked her back to the bedroom as if their two bodies were one, she did not fight him. Not until she saw that he had pulled the covers from the bed.
    Pulling away, she jumped on the bed then off the other side where she turned to face him. She needed time to think, to process what was going on.
    As if he understood, KJ remained on the other side of the bed. He looked almost amused at her evasive maneuver but did not make a comment about how childish or silly she looked.
    “What the hell are you? No human bite would heal as fast as this did without a ton of antibiotic cream,” she asked, lifting one hand to the nearly healed wound at the base of her neck. Just touching it sent a shiver of need through her. The arousal she thought had been satiated began to tighten around her hips, making her wonder what the hell was going on with her. Never had she been this quick to arousal after any orgasm.
    His mysterious grin disappeared. Standing tall and proud, he set his feet and planted his hands on hips, looking every inch, and then some, the police officer he was. The long, thick erection pointing straight at her did nothing to detract from the authoritative stance.
    “You’ve read about shape-shifters. I saw several books in your collection,” he stated. “Well, I am a cougar shape-shifter.”
    “Bull,” she said immediately.
    Though he looked sane, she was beginning to wonder. After all, only a slightly crazy man would be paying this kind of attention to a woman almost twenty years older than he was. And now he claimed to be a shape-shifter.
    Huffing a breath that told her he was nearing the end of his patience, KJ crossed his arms over his broad, muscular chest and glowered at her. “Why won’t you believe what I tell you?”
    His question acted as a needle to prick a bubble of man-hating pus that poisoned her heart and she cut loose. “With my history with men, what do you expect? I’ve given men my belief, my faith, my trust. What do I get in return? Lied to, cheated on, scammed out of thousands of dollars, and emotionally and physically abused. After years of being lied to and hurt by the men I get involved with, how am I supposed to react when you tell me you’re some nonexistent cougar shape-shifter?”
    His mood shifted to anger, though she could tell it was not directed at her.
    “Do you want me to hunt them down and kill them? I can, you know. I know where and how to hide the bodies so no one will ever question that their deaths weren’t accidental, if they even find the bodies at all,” he offered. As she watched, his teeth begin to elongate and his eyes change shape and color until they appeared more like cat’s eyes than human’s and glowed almost as bright green as his shorts.
    Those changes shocked her almost as much as his offer to kill people for her. “Who are you? What are you?” she asked in a small, frightened voice.
    Her tone of fear seemed to touch something in him and help him settle. In one deep breath released on a sigh, he was back in control and human-looking.
    “My name is Kristoph James Katz. I am a shape-shifting cougar, and you are the one the Fates have chosen to be my life mate. That’s why everything clicks between us so perfectly. You felt the bond between us that first day, or you never would have kissed me. I’m just surprised it took us this long to find one another.”
    Not sure what to believe, Stacy decided to err on the side of skepticism. “I don’t believe you.”
    “You know, you really need to put your past behind you and trust me. You are my life mate, and I