Without Reservations

color.
    Your eyes don’t see color in wolf form, by concentrating on color you are forcing them to shift back. It’s too complicated to think of it as changing back and forth.”
    Remi took a deep breath and turned his head to look down at the comforter on the bed. “It’s blue.” He turned back and his eyes were their normal human green. “What I don’t understand is what is making them change in the first place. I wasn’t mad, or scared. You said that is what triggers them to change.”
    “Or arousal,” Chay mumbled.
    Keaton glared at him.
    Remi snapped his head around to Chay. “How did you kn—”
    There was a knock at the door, then Joe popped his head in. “Hey.”
    Keaton chuckled. Saved by the bell, or rather by the knock. “Hey.”
    Joe came in, closing the door behind him. The man was very handsome. It was easy to see where Chay got his good looks. Joe smiled.
    “You three look nice.”
    “So do you,” Keaton said.
    Joe smiled even brighter. “Listen, I came to tell you guys that there’s no sign of Aubrey yet, but Joanna wants you downstairs, guests are beginning to arrive.”

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    Bit licked a long line up Chay’s throat, making him shiver.
    “Bit, you are getting way too into this. You are supposed to be paying attention to our surroundings,” Chay whispered against Bit’s ear.
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    “I am. No reason I can’t enjoy myself at the same time.” He nibbled on Chay’s earlobe.
    “Try to remember we have an audience.”
    “Mmmm… Actually I don’t know that we do. I don’t smell them.” Bit’s tongue pushed into his ear.
    “You aren’t supposed to. That’s the point.” Chay sighed and relaxed.
    Well as much as he could, knowing that at any time Aubrey could pop out of nowhere and threaten his Bit.
    Keaton gripped Chay’s cock and he about jumped out of his skin. He was concentrating on the area around the gazebo. He sucked in a breath and realized that his cock was hard. Chay may not have been paying attention to Bit, but apparently his body sure as hell was. He luxuriated in the feel of his mate for a few seconds. He buried his face in Bit’s neck and pushed up into his hand. Just a few seconds, that’s all he had.
    Someone needed to pay attention and Bit, despite what he said, wasn’t.
    Keaton’s head jerked up, his eyes wide, startled. His hand left Chay’s prick.
    Chay sniffed, taking in an unfamiliar scent. No, it wasn’t unfamiliar exactly. It was the scent he smelled the night he ran the man off outside of their house. The night Keaton’s brakes were cut.
    “I see it didn’t take you long to replace me.” A tall blond man came into the clearing, holding a gun. It wasn’t Aubrey.
    Keaton shook his head. “Jonathon?”
    Jonathon? Keaton’s ex? Chay positioned himself in front of Keaton.
    The gun wouldn’t do more than hurt a whole lot unless the bullets were silver, but he didn’t want his mate shot just the same.
    Jonathon smiled a nasty smile. “Oh, now you remember me.”
    “Jonathon what are you doing here?” Keaton pushed Chay back, maneuvering himself in front.
    “You ruined my life.” Jonathon shoved the gun forward at Keaton for emphasis.
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    Chay pulled Bit back again, shielding his body. “Whatever it is you think Keaton has done, I’m sure it isn’t too bad. Maybe if you tell us, we can help you fix it.” Yeah, it was lame, but he didn’t want this bozo to shoot either of them. And it bought time for the cavalry to show up. They were out there hiding, weren’t they?
    “You shut up. I wasn’t talking to you.” Jonathon glared at him.
    “Look, Jonathon, I don’t know what you think it is I did, but—”
    Jonathon scoffed. “You left me.”
    Keaton scoffed right back. “You had a girlfriend, you dumbass.”
    Chay groaned. He and Bit were going to have to have a talk about antagonizing crazy men with guns. The man was a wolf, he had to know a gun wasn’t that big a threat to other wolves.
    “And you could have had one too, or a boyfriend. I didn’t care. I’d have overlooked it. We could’ve led your pack together. All of it could have been ours. All of this…” He waved his gun around, indicating Reynolds Hall. “We could have been happy, it would have been easy to overpower your father and take over, but you had to run off. And what do you do, at the first opportunity, you run off to New Mexico. I tried to scare you by