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Lynx Northern Shifters 3

Lynx Northern Shifters 3

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Autoren: Joely Skye
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that Jonah would shift, regain his balance between his two forms. Trey’s biggest fear was that the lynx would stay lynx forever, turn feral. He hoped this was not Jonah’s real goal. He didn’t believe it could be since Jonah spent most of his day inside, sleeping and eating, recovering from what had happened to him.
The cat had been near skeletal. Close to death. Horton had been starving Jonah.
    The thought made Trey’s chest ache, as did Jonah’s lying down so often and so still. As if he’d been through something from which he could not heal. And it had all happened because Jonah had met Trey.
One afternoon, Jonah stretched and made a rumble, not a purr, which Trey found himself listening for, but at least it was noise from the usually silent cat. Trey walked over and crouched beside him. He hadn’t yet been allowed to touch Jonah and the desire to do so simply intensified with time.
Lynx-green eyes blinked at him.
“I wish you’d shift,” Trey said in a low voice. He’d stated this before, more as a suggestion. But now he was pleading, because he didn’t want to leave here until Jonah was human, and yet Trey had family responsibilities he could not ignore. “Please.”
He’d told the lynx before about wanting to talk to him and Jonah had consistently looked away in apparent disinterest. At first Trey had the idea he’d show Jonah the letter he’d written that awful winter he’d come back to find this house empty, but the lynx clearly had no desire to see such a thing. Two days after their return Trey had crumpled the letter up and thrown it in the fire, unable to keep around a reminder of those feelings of sick loss that had accompanied the writing of those words.
At least Jonah was here now. At least Trey wasn’t entirely alone. But old words would convince Jonah of nothing. What Trey had to do was say the right words now.
“I miss you.” He could feel his face heat up, but it no longer mattered. His pride, always too strong in him and yet something that had kept him going when nothing else could, was being offered up to Jonah, and Jonah didn’t care.
In fact, Jonah hissed in annoyance, as if Trey was an irritation he had to put up with.
“Jonah, are you punishing me?”
The lynx rose, his eyes filling with anger, which was perhaps an improvement over irritation and indifference.
“I think I deserve—”
The paw came at him with a speed that surprised Trey. Swiping through the air and whapping Trey across the face so his head turned to the side. It took him a moment to realize that the lynx’s claws had been retracted and no blood had been drawn.
He hadn’t been hit hard. It was a warning only.
“All right,” Trey said slowly. “You’re angry. Do you think you could be angry as a person, Jonah, because it would be a hell of a lot easier to shout this out than having me lecture you while you bat my face.”
Jonah stalked out of the house, out of the cave, and loped away while Trey stood there, left behind, rubbing his jaw in frustration.
Trey feared for Jonah, locked into his lynx form only. While he didn’t want to force himself on the lynx, Trey made the decision to touch Jonah. If he was suppressing his desire to shift, human contact might make a difference, might compel Jonah to turn.
Horton had laughed at Jonah’s desire to study math, but Trey did not want Jonah to lose that. In fact he intended to bring back study materials. But the cat had to be human to take advantage of textbooks.
So when Jonah returned that evening, after dark, Trey fed him without speaking. It was odd, what he was going to do. He’d never jumped a person like this, for these reasons, nor was he used to dealing in this kind of rejection. He didn’t get attached to people, in general, and those he did, like his family, tended to want him around more than he wanted to be around. But Jonah was, as always, different.
He waited till Jonah was settled on the cot, his back curved as only a cat’s could be, his body ready for sleep. Then Trey trod silently as he approached the lynx from behind. In one smooth movement, Trey threw himself onto the lynx, intent on capturing him.
Just before Trey landed, the cat tensed, half-turning as Trey’s weight descended. Jonah yowled, twisting and struggling under Trey, and Trey fought to keep hold of him. He was strong, stronger than Jonah, but the cat had a flexibility and swiftness Trey did not possess.
The lynx scored a line down Trey’s forearm but Trey refused to

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