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intend to insult you.”
    “Just to speak the truth,” Aaron grumbled. “We caused the destruction of most of our world. Can’t live in the remnants of the big cities for fear of catching whatever diseases it was that wiped out the billions. Did it affect shifters at all?”
    Valen felt a chill of warning. He didn’t know Aaron or whom Aaron might speak to. “I can’t say how it affected other packs. Ours has remained the same size or close to it ever since our history can be recalled. It helps a lot that we are immune to diseases and illnesses, unlike your kind.”
    “So the plagues that almost wiped us out didn’t affect shifters at all. That’s amazing, actually. And how do you recall it, your history?” Aaron leaned forward eagerly. “Do you have books?”
    “No books,” Valen told him, hating the disappointment he saw in Aaron’s eyes. “We aren’t big on recording our histories like that, probably because at one point we had to seriously worry about being discovered and eliminated by mankind.”
    “We would do something like that,” Aaron admitted. “Now it’s all we can do, in my village at least, to make it through to the next day.”
    “It’s that bad for you?” Valen asked.
    “For us, yes.” Aaron touched his knee and grimaced. “Anything can kill us, it seems. Immobility is dangerous.”
    Valen had so many questions but he didn’t have the luxury of asking them. If he did so, he’d disclose things about shifters that he wasn’t certain humans should know. In fact, he didn’t think they needed any information about shifters. Valen switched tactics, because there was something else he wanted to ask, and Aaron seemed content to talk the night away.
    “You want me,” he declared bluntly.
    Another startled gasp from Aaron, whose mouth dropped open as he stared at Valen.
    “I saw it. Felt the proof of it. Smelled your need.” Valen inched closer to Aaron. “There is nothing wrong with letting ourselves have respite from the harder aspects of life, is there? No reason I can’t touch you, or you can’t touch me.” Speak positive , he scolded himself. “I can make you feel so good, and—”
    “I can’t,” Aaron rasped. “I— I’m not—”
    Valen smiled as seductively as he knew how. “Oh, you are, and so am I.”
     

Chapter Four
     
     
     
    Uh-oh. There was no pretending he’d be forced into anything now, and still he wanted Valen with every particle of his being.
    Aaron forgot to worry that he was going to die from some kind of weird knee injury. His thoughts scattered as he stared into Valen’s eyes.
    “Uh-oh?” Valen asked in a silky tone.
    Aaron jolted. If he blushed any harder and hotter he was going to be incinerated from embarrassment on the spot. “D-did I say that out loud?”
    Valen’s smile was illuminated beautifully in the moonlight. “Yes, and I have to say, it’s the first time I’ve ever gotten that particular reaction. Somehow it doesn’t seem to be a bad one.”
    Aaron didn’t know what to say. His body was rioting on the inside for what Valen was promising. Every word Valen spoke floated over Aaron and touched him almost as effectively and erotically as an actual touch. At least, he thought it did. Honestly, Aaron didn’t really know what Valen had in mind specifically.
    “I’d start by touching you,” Valen said, moving closer. “Your arms, to chase away the chill bumps on them. To see if you quiver or tense when I’m touching you for pleasure instead of in combat.”
    Combat? I was involved in combat? Aaron’s pulse raced. He’d never been made to fight or hunt, and he’d never wanted to. The slingshot was something he’d taught himself to use because he’d figured he should have one way of increasing his survival skills, and even so, he couldn’t hit a dang thing with it.
    “Then I’d…” Valen inched forward. “I’d like to kiss you. I don’t kiss, generally. Once or twice to see what it’s like. Most of the time it’s