The mid-day rush of people frantically making their way to or from lunch swarmed around Kelly as she dodged along the wide, hot sidewalk.\u00a0 Her muted apologies (Sorry!, Excuse me!, I’m so sorry!) were smothered by the buzzing of conversations, traffic and the sound of the world around her.\u00a0 At a little over five feet tall and a tiny bit under 110 pounds, she felt like a (Duck?\u00a0 Water bug?\u00a0 Hamster in a hamster ball thing?) <\/i>fighting the raging current of a monstrous river.\u00a0 She grinned at the thought of a hamster furiously scrambling in a floating ball before apologizing to a faceless stranger that accidentally elbowed her.<\/p>\n
The crowd thinned a few blocks later as she neared her favorite little diner.\u00a0 As was her habit, she glanced at herself in the large windows of a Macy’s storefront to see if anything was out-of-place.\u00a0 Skirt still where it should be?\u00a0 Check.\u00a0 No under-the-boob sweat spots on my blouse?\u00a0 Check.\u00a0 No toilet paper trailing on my flats-<\/i> Kelly stopped and turned to look across the street.<\/p>\n
An old woman sat in a pile of clothes on the sidewalk across from where she stood.\u00a0 The woman looked proud with her straight back and gray hair pulled into a tight ponytail, slightly lined face staring impassively straight ahead.\u00a0 A small sign written in meticulous letters proclaimed, “I need no money – simply a little food, please.”\u00a0 The lady sat cross-legged with her hands folded in the faded red fabric of her dress.\u00a0 Her eyes were a calm reflection of the few clouds that passed overhead.<\/p>\n
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Kelly bit her lip while watching.\u00a0 Nobody looked at the woman and the woman watched nothing but the space in front of her. \u00a0She turned back and continued down the block, turning at the small building squeezed between Macy’s and Payless Shoes.\u00a0 The little ding! ding! of the bell over the diner’s door greeted her cheerfully.\u00a0 A large black man behind the small kitchen window in the back yelled out to her, “Kelly, ma ch\u00e8re!\u00a0 Sit down, honey, and I’ll bring you your sandwich.”<\/p>\n
Kelly stood by the register in the front, relishing the sudden quiet and familiar smells.\u00a0 The world felt slow here.\u00a0 Looking through the old, dusty large front windows made the city outside seem like a movie playing at a drive-in theater on a warm summer night.\u00a0 Even the tiny motes of dust floating in the buttery yellow sunlight seemed lazy.\u00a0 “Make it two, Papa Joe.\u00a0 With soup, please?\u00a0 To go.”<\/p>\n
An older, slim black woman in a crisp, pristine yellow dress looked up from the table she was waiting on.\u00a0 “That for that new man of yours, girl?\u00a0 I told you to bring him ’round so we can meet him.\u00a0 You hidin’ him from us?”<\/p>\n
Papa Joe’s deep chuckle echoed from the back.\u00a0 “Now, Mama, you leave her alone.\u00a0 You know I’m the only man for her.”\u00a0 The men (all men today, she noticed) sitting around the small room laughed and Kelly blushed.\u00a0 Papa Joe winked at her from his little kitchen.<\/p>\n
“Joseph Keller!\u00a0 You get back to your grill and mind your own business.\u00a0 No woman could stand you no matter how much you wink and croon or I’d have grandchildren by now.\u00a0 Couldn’t even fit through the church doors for your own wedding even if you did fool some poor girl into marryin’ you.”\u00a0 The woman’s bony hands flicked imaginary specks of nothing off of the tiny white flowers dotting her dress.\u00a0 A man at the table to her side raised his empty water glass up to her and she turned to him, slapping his hand.\u00a0 “Mr. Stockwell, if you think I’m gonna carry that glass over to fill it up, you have another thought coming to you.\u00a0 You wait till I come around with the pitcher like everyone else.”\u00a0 The man took his glass back, momentarily chagrined at the rebuttal.\u00a0 He grinned, though, and his friends made fun of him while Mama walked to the next table.<\/p>\n
From the back, Papa Joe raised his voice in song, “Welllll, I remember the sound of the wind through the tree as I sat so young on papa’s knee!\u00a0 Mama in her dress and…”<\/p>\n
Kelly turned away to look through the stained windows.\u00a0 She could see the old lady at the corner of the street, still in the same position.\u00a0 She wondered if she should’ve brought the woman into the diner.\u00a0 You couldn’t be mad here, or unhappy, and she thought the other woman could use some relaxing in her life.\u00a0 Or something.\u00a0 But, another part of her worried that the old woman would fracture the idyllic peace of the place.\u00a0 There was a hardness around her that Kelly could see even from a distance.\u00a0 No, better to bring food to the woman.\u00a0 She closed her eyes, taking in the murmuring conversations dotted with Mama’s sharp interjections and Papa Joe’s fine, deep voice.\u00a0 Her body relaxed in increments as it always did when she was here.<\/p>\n
A gentle voice at her side woke her from her revelry.\u00a0 “Here y’are, child.\u00a0 Careful with the soup so they don’t spill.\u00a0 And you don’t mind me askin’ after your business.\u00a0 I’m just an old woman that don’t know no better and I just worry after all of y’all.\u00a0 Bring that man of yours in whenever you want and we’ll cook up something for the both of you.\u00a0 And you watch yourself with that drifter ‘cross the way.\u00a0 I don’t like her.\u00a0 On with you now.”\u00a0 The old woman turned her body slightly while keeping her eyes on Kelly’s face.\u00a0 “I heard that remark, young Mr. Green!\u00a0 You can forget yourself having another glass of Coke.\u00a0 Callin’ a woman like myself old.\u00a0 I’m addin’ to your bill for that one, you better believe it and I’ll be wantin’ an apology, too.”<\/p>\n
The little bell rang again as Kelly opened the door, the sudden flood of noise drowned out Mr. Green’s “Awwww, Mama…” behind her.\u00a0 Everything was suddenly too bright, too loud and too fast around her.\u00a0 She held the paper bag close to her chest while she watched and waited for a chance to cross the street.\u00a0 A bicyclist in advertisement-laden white Speedo and a large curved bike helmet zipped past in the bike lane, tires whirring as he passed.<\/p>\n
With the light changed to red and no cars turning right, the street was empty and Kelly scrambled across to the other sidewalk.\u00a0 She approached the old woman cautiously, unsure of what to do; she’d never met a homeless person quite like her.\u00a0 As she neared, the old woman spoke, her voice slow and gravelly, “I thought it might be you.\u00a0 Sit with me, little one.\u00a0 Will you share your food with an old woman?”<\/p>\n
Kelly paused, heart in her throat.\u00a0 She didn’t sound<\/b> crazy.\u00a0 Well, her words sounded a little off but they were put together.\u00a0 And that accent, she wondered, European? Russian?\u00a0 No, that’s not right, nothing was just Russian any more, was it?\u00a0 It’s all Bulgarian or Croatian or something, right?\u00a0\u00a0 Now the woman finally turned to look at her.\u00a0\u00a0 “Well?”\u00a0 She asked.<\/p>\n
“I… yes.\u00a0 Yes I’ll sit with you.”\u00a0 Up close she could see the woman’s eyes and they were a mixture of green and brown with hidden gold flecks.\u00a0 Kelly sat a few feet away, facing the woman.\u00a0 “I bought some soup and a sandwich.\u00a0 You don’t have any food allergies, do you?”<\/p>\n
The woman watched her closely.\u00a0 She sat as if she’d never move again, perfectly still.\u00a0 Nearly predatory.\u00a0 Kelly found herself having to remember to breathe now and again.\u00a0 The pressure of the woman’s gaze was intense and she never seemed to blink.\u00a0 “No.\u00a0 I have no such things.\u00a0 Do you know?\u00a0 I have sat here since dawn.\u00a0 Here in this cluttered, noisy place.\u00a0 Never once did anyone offer their sympathy or their food.\u00a0 This food, it is not yours but I will accept it.”<\/p>\n
Kelly tilted her head.\u00a0 “But, it is mine.\u00a0 I paid for it.”<\/p>\n
“Yes, you’ve paid for it.\u00a0 It is not made by your hand nor from grains you’ve reaped or animals you’ve hunted.\u00a0 I will not fault you for it, child of the city.\u00a0 Thank you for the food you’re sharing.”\u00a0 The hands that reached for the wrapped sandwich were weathered but strong.\u00a0 Long, slightly stained fingernails tipped each finger.\u00a0 They weren’t blackened by the grime of the city or… whatever homeless people seem to get on their hands – it was as if she’d spent the day working the ground.\u00a0\u00a0 The woman herself had an earthy smell about her.\u00a0 But, deeper than that in some way.\u00a0 Things stirred in the shadows of Kelly’s dreams and she shifted uncomfortably against the feeling.<\/p>\n
“You’re welcome,” she told the older woman.\u00a0 “May I ask?\u00a0 What’s your name?\u00a0 I’m Kelly.”<\/p>\n
“I’m-” the woman paused briefly.\u00a0 “It doesn’t matter.\u00a0\u00a0 The sandwich is very good, even if the woman in the store dislikes me.\u00a0 It is well made.\u00a0 Tell me of yourself, Kelly.\u00a0 Sit and talk with an old woman.”<\/p>\n
“I… what do you want to know?”\u00a0 The old woman made an ambiguous hand gesture while her sharp teeth bit into the thick sandwich.\u00a0 Kelly swallowed and continued.\u00a0 “Okay.\u00a0 I’m 23 and I work at a bookstore a few blocks away.\u00a0 I like to paint – that’s what my degree is in.\u00a0 Art.\u00a0 Basically.\u00a0 It’s, well, basically art.\u00a0 I also sketch and draw and I get commissioned sometimes.\u00a0 Online, mostly.\u00a0 That’s, I mean, the Internet.\u00a0 Where I get commissions.\u00a0 Sometimes.\u00a0 If I could bring myself to draw naked women, I’d be able to do a lot more commissions but I can’t seem to do it.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 Wow, I’m just babbling, aren’t I?\u00a0 I’m so sorry.\u00a0 I just kind of-”<\/p>\n
“Stop apologizing, child.”\u00a0 The woman’s voice was sudden and stern.\u00a0 “And?\u00a0 Is there a man in your life?\u00a0 Someone keeping you warm at night?”<\/p>\n
Kelly blushed.\u00a0 “There’s… there’s… yes.\u00a0 But, no.\u00a0 He doesn’t live with me.\u00a0 We only recently decided to be exclusive.\u00a0 After four months.\u00a0 He asked but I wasn\u2019t seeing anyone else anyway. \u00a0He’s… he’s a very nice man.\u00a0 I like him a lot.\u00a0 I’ve known him four months now.\u00a0 Wow, the time flies.\u00a0 Four months.\u00a0 Um.\u00a0 Um.\u00a0 We’re going slowly with things.\u00a0 Like… but… not… augh!”\u00a0 Kelly hid her face against her knees.\u00a0 Her voice was slightly muffled when she continued.\u00a0 “I’m shy.\u00a0 Sometimes I worry I’m too slow and dumb for him.\u00a0 My family was strict and I worry I don’t know what to do.\u00a0 He’s… he’s my second boyfriend.\u00a0 And the first one dumped me after a month when I said I wouldn’t sleep with him yet.\u00a0 Why am I telling you this?\u00a0 I’m so sorry.”<\/p>\n
The old woman reached her hand out to place it on Kelly’s small shoulder.\u00a0 “Because I asked you to tell me.\u00a0 And so you have.\u00a0 I would take you and teach you purpose and confidence but our paths lie separate.\u00a0 I will go now, young woman.\u00a0 You have my thanks and my blessing.\u00a0 May it give you strength.”\u00a0 Kelly felt the woman’s hand against her own and then something pressed into her palm.\u00a0 She peeked with one eye to see what it was and gasped to see a large, heavy gold coin shining brightly.<\/p>\n
Kelly gasped eyes wide.\u00a0 “I can’t ta-!”\u00a0 The woman was gone.\u00a0 There was an empty sandwich wrapper rocking slightly in the wind but no trace of the woman.\u00a0 Not a single sign that she’d been there, aside from the wrapper.<\/p>\n
A sudden searing pain bloomed in Kelly’s hand and she screamed, dropping the coin.\u00a0 Except, no coin fell to the ground.\u00a0 She grabbed her right wrist, feeling the hand pulse with pain but, when she turned her hand over, nothing was there.\u00a0 The palm of her hand was reddened but there was no burn and she could already feel the pain lessening. She clenched her fist over and over again as the nerves in her hand slowly stopped screaming.\u00a0 Opening her hand completely, Kelly caught faint white lines traced in a vague shape amongst the many creases crisscrossing her palm.\u00a0 Like a fancy optical illusion, the lines seemed to vanish into the wrinkles of her flesh.<\/p>\n
Kelly stood and immediately fell against the cold marble of the building next to her.\u00a0 Bright pins of light exploded in her eyes and the world darkened around her.\u00a0 The back of her neck broke into a cold sweat and for a brief, terrible moment, she wasn’t sure whether she was still standing or not.\u00a0 Her ears rang with a loud screeching sound while she tried to tell if the surface against her side was the building or the sidewalk.\u00a0 Slowly, lights and sounds returned to her.\u00a0 She was standing and gasping for air, arms hugged around her slight form.\u00a0 The cold sweat ran from her neck to her legs and then turned warm before passing.\u00a0 She spent several minutes just breathing before she dared to move.<\/p>\n
The old woman left no mark, no disturbed dirt or trash or any trace of her existence other than the discarded paper from her sandwich.\u00a0 Kelly bent, careful of her balance, and cleaned up.\u00a0 Her own stomach roiled at the thought of eating her food so she took the diner\u2019s paper bag with her as she threw away the bits of trash in the nearby bin.\u00a0 Her earlier good mood was gone, replaced with a strain behind her eyes and a dull ache near her ears.\u00a0 She caught herself nearly yelling at someone as they bumped into her and, instead, focused on her feet and controlling her temper.\u00a0 Once back at the book store where she worked, she gave muted assurances to her coworker’s worries.<\/p>\n
It took her manager gently telling her to go home before she realized she was simply staring at the books rather than reshelving them.\u00a0 Her stomach was in knots and the pounding in her head was getting worse.\u00a0 Her coworker gave her a ride back to her apartment and she spent nearly the entire trip huddled into a small ball, gripping the seat belt.\u00a0 She couldn’t remember if she said anything or embarrassed herself or simply said nothing during the entire car ride.\u00a0 The walk from the car to her bedroom was dream-like, shadows and lights and sounds amplified suddenly and then vanished into nearly nothing.\u00a0 She finally collapsed into her bed, still dressed in her work clothes.\u00a0 Bright sunlight filtered through her cheap blinds, covering her in curving bands of light and shadows until sleep finally, mercifully took her.<\/p>\n
Kelly startled awake, gasping for air and then wincing at the pain behind her eyes.\u00a0 She was completely covered in blankets and it was dark outside.\u00a0 Silvery moonlight glowed around the edges of her closed blinds.\u00a0 Someone was sitting at the edge of the bed but she was having a hard time focusing her eyes.\u00a0 When she tried to speak, the words caught in her throat.\u00a0 Her mouth was completely dry \u2013 lips stuck to teeth and her tongue clung to the roof of her mouth.<\/p>\n
The form stirred and reached for her.\u00a0 “Hey, you.”<\/p>\n
David, <\/i>her mind told her.\u00a0 She relaxed, sighing, both pleased he was there and wishing he wasn’t seeing her like this.\u00a0 His voice sounded warm and careful.\u00a0 “Hey,” she whispered back to him.<\/p>\n
He brought his hand to her face, brushing a loose strand of hair away from her eyes.\u00a0 She tried to shrink away from him but her body felt incredibly heavy.\u00a0 Instead, she closed her eyes and pushed slightly against his hand.\u00a0 His touch was comforting.\u00a0 “I went to your work to give you a ride home and they told me you were sick so I came here.\u00a0 I hope it’s okay?\u00a0 I used the key you gave me last week.\u00a0 Oh, and Sally said you forgot your lunch in her car so I brought it.\u00a0 It’s in the fridge.\u00a0 Can I make you anything?\u00a0 Or bring you anything?”<\/p>\n
She shook her head slightly.\u00a0 “No,” she rasped.\u00a0 “Yes.\u00a0 Water.\u00a0 Please.”\u00a0 Her small bed shifted slightly as David stood and she heard him clinking around in her kitchen – still a stranger to how she arranged her kitchenware.\u00a0 Eventually she heard her faucet run and then he returned, kneeling by her bed.\u00a0 When she tried and failed to sit up, she felt his hand work its way under her head and then slowly and carefully lift her.\u00a0 She could feel her own sweat against his cool hand.\u00a0 He tipped the water glass against her lips and she nearly choked on the first sip.\u00a0 With small gulps, she finished the entire glass.\u00a0 “Thank you,” she told him.\u00a0 Her throat hurt.\u00a0 Her head hurt.\u00a0 Her whole body ached.<\/p>\n
David brushed more hairs away from her face and she smiled at him.\u00a0 Or tried to.\u00a0 “Do you want me to stay?\u00a0 I could sleep on the couch and make you breakfast.\u00a0 Or hold your hair back if you have to throw up.\u00a0 Although, I charge extra for the clean-up afterwards.”\u00a0 He chuckled lightly, tracing his finger along the side of her face.\u00a0 She rubbed back against him again.<\/p>\n
Yes, <\/i>she thought, please stay.<\/i>\u00a0 “No.\u00a0 I’ll be fine.\u00a0 Just.\u00a0 Just need rest.”\u00a0 Her breathing came in gasps.\u00a0 The effort of an actual conversation made her heart rate speed up.<\/p>\n
“You’re surprisingly stubborn, Kel.\u00a0 But I’m the same way some times.\u00a0 I put your phone on your night stand in case you need to call and it’s plugged in.\u00a0 Your left overs are in the fridge and I’ll refill your glass and put it by your phone.\u00a0 Promise you’ll call if you need anything?”\u00a0 She watched him stand and wished she could see the way his forehead creased when he was worried about something.\u00a0 She liked to count his wrinkles when he did that.\u00a0 She’d always tell him that he was like a tree, adding new wrinkles for every worry in his life and he’d soon look like one of those funny little dogs with too much skin for their own good.<\/p>\n
“Yes,” she told him simply and even that took effort.\u00a0 “I will.”\u00a0 She closed her eyes again and listened as he moved around to pick up and refill her glass.\u00a0\u00a0 She heard the deadbolt click loudly before he spoke again.<\/p>\n
“Good night, Kelly.\u00a0 Call me?\u00a0 When you’re better or if you need anything.\u00a0 You promised.”<\/p>\n
She nodded even though she knew he couldn’t see her.\u00a0 The door opened and then closed again and her body relaxed when David locked the deadbolt.\u00a0 Her lower back ached as if she’d been lying for too long and she couldn’t seem to find a comfortable position.\u00a0 The blankets were too heavy and hot but she worried she’d freeze without them.\u00a0 Her short, auburn hair lay in sweaty clumps on the pillow around her.\u00a0 The pale light permeating the room blinked out as a cloud slowly obscured the face of the full moon.\u00a0 Kelly tilted her head to look over at the window, small, delicate cheekbones dotted with small beads of sweat.\u00a0 She held her breath as her eyes focused on the window.\u00a0 Mesmerized.\u00a0 Slowly, moonlight dawned again and her breath rattled out of her through suddenly clenched teeth.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0David stared at his phone for the millionth time.\u00a0 Three days and I haven’t heard a thing.\u00a0 Do I call?\u00a0 Is that too needy?\u00a0 I hate this stuff.\u00a0 Why can’t it be more simple?\u00a0 If I want to call, I should just call.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 Dammit.\u00a0 But I told her to call me if she needed something.\u00a0 What if she’s dead?\u00a0 I should just-<\/i> His phone rang to sudden, heart-stopping life as his hand hovered over it.\u00a0 “Jesus fucking Christ!”\u00a0 David yelled.\u00a0 He answered the call with a frantic swipe when he saw who it was.<\/p>\n
\u00a0“Kelly?”\u00a0 He could feel his heart hammering against his chest.<\/p>\n
“David!\u00a0 Hi!\u00a0 It’s Kelly!\u00a0 Oh, but you already said that.\u00a0 Hello!\u00a0 I’m all better!”\u00a0 Kelly’s voice was a raging torrent of enthusiasm in David’s ear.\u00a0 He held the little phone out from his face but grinned while doing it.\u00a0 “Do you want to come over tonight for a little I’m-Not-Dying celebration?”<\/p>\n
“That sounds like a great idea, Kel.\u00a0 Is 7 a good time?\u00a0 I’m really glad you’re doing better.\u00a0 I’ll bring some cheesecake, yeah?\u00a0 And a movie?”\u00a0 Shit.\u00a0 Romantic comedy?\u00a0 Action?\u00a0 Drama?\u00a0 Maybe a romantic comedy.\u00a0 She likes them.\u00a0 I can suffer through some with her.\u00a0 Oh, right.\u00a0 The one.\u00a0 With the guy from Star Trek and Inception.\u00a0 Ummm… This Is War or something.\u00a0 That looked funny as hell and she’ll like it.<\/i><\/p>\n
Kelly’s laugh trickled through the phone and David felt a warm emotional rush from it.\u00a0 He loved the way she laughed – her face made little dimples and she hid her mouth while she did it.\u00a0 It was one of the most adorable things he’d ever seen.\u00a0 He’d always wondered what writers meant when they said someone’s eyes sparkled and it took Kelly to show him.<\/p>\n
“That, sir, is a date but make it 6, okay?\u00a0 I may even give you a little kiss for your efforts.\u00a0 And the cheesecake.\u00a0 But, just a little one.\u00a0 See you in a few hours!”\u00a0 The connection clicked off and David cocked his head to the side slightly.\u00a0 He’d yet to see this playful side of her but he liked it because usually she was quite reticent towards sex and even intimacy.\u00a0 Still, his pulse quickened at the thought of a quiet evening with Kelly and a simple kiss at the end.<\/p>\n
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David stood at the door in his faded blue jeans and simple brown t-shirt.\u00a0 Ignoring the doorbell (he always thought it was rude or lazy to use a doorbell first) he knocked three times and waited.\u00a0 He held a grocery bag in this left hand with two plastic containers of a cherry cheesecake and a case with the movie “This Means War” inside.<\/p>\n
There was a muffled “Just a min-ow!” from inside the apartment followed by muttered, low grumbling.\u00a0 The plain white door (apartment 12, with the number ‘2’ slightly crooked) rattled for a second.\u00a0 David heard Kelly mumble something under her breath before the deadlock clicked open and the door swung wide.<\/p>\n
He nearly dropped the bag he was carrying.<\/p>\n
Kelly, the shy and unassuming young woman he was slowly falling in love with, stood before him in a low cut, green top and a loose skirt.\u00a0 He could smell the subtle hint of some perfume from where he stood and he caught himself sniffing to try to catch more of it.\u00a0 She’d made herself up with light touches of coloring around her eyes and cheeks and a dark lipstick.\u00a0 Her small, nearly pearl white teeth seemed to flash brilliantly through the deep velvet redness of her lips.\u00a0 His eyes strayed to her breasts before shooting back up to her eyes.\u00a0 She was blushing and it only added to the effect.\u00a0 It took an enormous amount of effort for David to restrain himself from staring at how beautiful she was.\u00a0 The urge to take her in his arms and press his lips against hers was sudden and fierce.<\/p>\n
“I,” he started.\u00a0 He swallowed hard before continuing.\u00a0 “I didn’t dress up.\u00a0 I.\u00a0 You look amazing.”\u00a0 He’d known she was pretty but she hid herself well – something forced on her from her childhood.\u00a0 Something she was still struggling with.<\/p>\n
“I banged my elbow on the wall and forgot to unlock the door.\u00a0 Hi!\u00a0 And, oh, don’t worry about dressing up!\u00a0 I- well, I wanted to try making myself up for you and we’re not going out so I thought it would be safe.\u00a0 Don’t tell anyone but I had to watch some Youtube videos on how to do my makeup.”\u00a0 Her blush fled from her checks to the top of her chest and David’s eyes followed its retreat, pausing to wonder at the way her shirt exposed the tops of her breasts.<\/p>\n
“I won’t tell anyone.\u00a0 I promise.\u00a0 But why in the world, Kel?\u00a0 I mean, holy cow, you look wonderful but what’s the occasion?”<\/p>\n
Her eyes flicked up to his and then down again.\u00a0 “A date with a handsome man.”\u00a0 Looking down, he saw she was digging her toe into the carpet.\u00a0 “Am I pretty, David?”<\/p>\n
His throat was suddenly dry and his answer came out as a rasp.\u00a0 Thirsty, dying of thirst but not for water.\u00a0 “Yes.\u00a0 Very pretty.\u00a0 You’ve always been pretty to me, Kelly.”\u00a0 He stood close, resting his hand on her side.\u00a0 She looked up and their eyes met.\u00a0 Such simple brown eyes,<\/i> he thought.\u00a0 But, I could drown in them tonight.\u00a0 Hungry and wary and scared eyes.<\/i><\/p>\n
Kelly’s lips parted slowly as her eyes closed.\u00a0 David leaned in, hesitating for only a moment before touching his lips to hers.\u00a0 He very carefully brought his hands around to her lower back and shoulders – safe areas for her at the moment.\u00a0 When he felt the tentative touch of her tongue against his lips, he almost pulled back but Kelly’s arms were suddenly around him, holding him tightly.\u00a0 He opened his own mouth and their tongues met.\u00a0 Kelly moaned softly as her mouth opened wider for him.\u00a0 David mentally cursed himself – his hand was groping her ass and she writhed against the touch.\u00a0 He pulled his hand up and around her back, gripping her side.\u00a0 Her own fingers were gripping his short, curly hair.<\/p>\n
She turned and he followed, her back pressed against the doorframe.\u00a0 She moaned again as her body pressed slightly against him.\u00a0 Kelly reached up with her right hand, gripping the doorframe, arched her back.\u00a0 Before he could stop himself, David bent down to her neck, kissing her roughly, reaching down again to grab her ass through the soft fabric of her skirt.\u00a0 Her body shook against him and his teeth were suddenly on her neck, nibbling her gently. \u00a0Kelly’s leg wrapped around his leg and she used it to pull him even closer.<\/p>\n
“Yes,” she moaned above him.\u00a0 “Yes, please.”\u00a0 Her own fingers clawed at his back and hair, holding him hard against her.\u00a0 “David, please.”\u00a0 Her voice was breathless.\u00a0 Needy.\u00a0 He could feel the heat from her chest, from the blood rushing like mad through her body.<\/p>\n
It took every ounce of willpower to push himself away and Kelly whined in frustration when he did.\u00a0 David stood in the hallway, panting, staring at Kelly.\u00a0 Her shirt was half off and he could see her plain white bra.\u00a0 Her lipstick had smeared at some point.\u00a0 She looked frantic but a cloud of doubt passed over her face.<\/p>\n
“Oh,” she said.\u00a0 “Oh.\u00a0 I’m.\u00a0 I’m right here in the hallway, aren’t I?\u00a0 We were-\u00a0 Oh.”\u00a0 He’d thought she was blushing before but Kelly’s face turned an incredible shade of crimson as she worked through what happened.\u00a0 “David, I’m… I’m sorry.\u00a0 I don’t know what came over me.”<\/p>\n
“No, hey, no.\u00a0 It wasn’t anything you did.”\u00a0 Tears were forming in the corner of her eye.\u00a0 “It was, hey, no.\u00a0 It wasn’t anything wrong.\u00a0 I just had to stop it.\u00a0 It’s too soon, Kelly.\u00a0 God knows I want it but, Kelly, it’s too soon for you.”\u00a0 He reached for her and she came to him, so small now against his chest.\u00a0 “Hey, it’s okay.”\u00a0 David kissed the top of her head as he held her.\u00a0 Feeling her hot tears.<\/p>\n
Time passed before she could talk.\u00a0 “Thank you,” she told him.\u00a0 “Thank you.\u00a0 I don’t know what happened.\u00a0 I think… I think I should be alone tonight.\u00a0 I’m sorry.\u00a0 I ruined our evening.\u00a0 I wanted.\u00a0 I wanted a nice night with you.\u00a0 You don’t hate me, do you?”<\/p>\n
David sighed against the top of her head.\u00a0 “Of course not, Kel.\u00a0 I know it’ll take time.\u00a0 You’ll call when you’re okay to talk?”\u00a0 He felt her nod against him.\u00a0 “Good.\u00a0 I’m sorry about tonight, Kelly but I’m there if you need to talk.”\u00a0 She nodded again and David decided it was time to go.\u00a0 Sometimes he hated her parents deeply for what they did.\u00a0 He pulled away from her and gathered up the grocery bag.\u00a0 “Here, I’ll leave you the cheesecake like I promised.\u00a0 Be good.”\u00a0 He touched the side of her face, feeling the warmth and the wetness of the tears.\u00a0 She closed her eyes and rubbed against his hand.\u00a0 With a last kiss on her forehead, he turned and left.<\/p>\n
Only when she texted later that night did David relax and the worry of whether he’d broken something left him.\u00a0 I’m all right, <\/i>she wrote.\u00a0 I miss you and our evening together.\u00a0 I’ll call in a few days.\u00a0 Sweet dreams, David.<\/i><\/p>\n
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Over the next few weeks, David and Kelly restarted their relationship.\u00a0 Slowly.\u00a0 Carefully.\u00a0 On the third date after that night, Kelly wore the same outfit – outside of her apartment.\u00a0 At first, she refused to look at anyone around her but as the night wore on, she raised her head and started smiling again.\u00a0 When an older couple remarked on what a handsome couple they were, Kelly grinned with her teeth and pressed up against David, laying her head against him briefly.<\/p>\n
After every date, David walked Kelly to her apartment and stood carefully in front of her door.\u00a0 Some nights Kelly would blush and very clearly not look at the doorframe and other times she blush and wink at him as he kissed her (mostly) chastely good night.<\/p>\n
They talked a lot – a good bit about her parents and the near cult they were involved in that started with a group of born again Christians.\u00a0 She was sixteen years old when she worked up the nerve to ask a classmate for help.\u00a0 A government investigation was eventually launched and her classmate’s parents took her in.\u00a0 Two years later, Kelly’s family and the whole group moved to Arizona and set up a compound.\u00a0 She never heard from them again but she bore the mental scars still.\u00a0 The fact that she was still a virgin with intimacy issues was just one of the many lingering struggles she had to deal with.<\/p>\n
Nearly a month after the night of their canceled date, Kelly opened her door and then turned to look at David.\u00a0 She wore a long red summer dress with a pattern of white tropical flowers.\u00a0 Her lips were a new shade of red and she had her short hair held back, showing her neck and ears clearly in the bright overhead light.\u00a0 David\u2019s eyes traced the gentle curve of her neck and then up to her slight jawline.<\/p>\n
She smiled for him.\u00a0 “I think I could fall in love with you, David.”\u00a0 And, with that, she closed the door.<\/p>\n
David barely remembered their evening out or his walk home.\u00a0 All he saw in his mind\u2019s eye was the figure of her standing in her doorway as if she were a particularly sultry dame in a 1950’s pulp crime novel.\u00a0 Her voice was husky as the hallway filled with a mysterious smoke.\u00a0 “I love you, David,” she told him in his daydream, one hand on her thigh, slowly revealing more and more leg through the cut of her dress.\u00a0 Over and over. But, when he dreamed that night, it was just Kelly – just her smiling for him.<\/p>\n
His heart soared.<\/p>\n
David woke to a small flashing light on his cellphone.\u00a0 A short text from Kelly greeted him: G‘morning handsome! Dinner at my place tonight?\u00a0 7?\u00a0 <\/i>David’s finger hesitated over the virtual keyboard.\u00a0 A small part of him wondered whether it was too soon still, whether she was trying to push herself for him.\u00a0 In the end, he decided they would work through it like adults, and he would just try to restrain himself if they moved too fast.\u00a0 Gladly,<\/i> he answered back.<\/p>\n
The day passed quickly for David.\u00a0 He answered emails from clients, negotiated a new software agreement with a school district and narrowly avoided being forced to have dinner with his boss to congratulate him on closing the sale.\u00a0 There was no humanly possible way he was missing his date tonight.<\/p>\n
Near 6 pm, David stood in front of the mirror, trimming his short beard and humming some random song from the radio.\u00a0 When his phone buzzed, he woke it and frowned at the text from Kelly:\u00a0 sick again don’t come.<\/i><\/p>\n
David set the razor down, thinking.\u00a0 Kelly wasn’t the type to make up an excuse and if she had changed her mind, she’d just ask that they meet at a restaurant for drinks.\u00a0 She wouldn’t just completely cancel for no good reason.\u00a0 Another debate waged war as he struggled with whether he would go to check on her or leave her alone for the night.\u00a0 Finally, he remembered how out of it she was the last time.\u00a0\u00a0 With a quick stop at the store a few ingredients, he made his way to Kelly’s apartment.<\/p>\n
The street lamp across from Kelly’s apartment complex flickered weakly over David’s car.\u00a0\u00a0 He sat for over fifteen minutes doubting himself.\u00a0 Wondering whether it was right to go in to check on her.\u00a0 The moon hung fat and low in the sky, turning the nearby playground into a gray wasteland.\u00a0 A small child’s swing creaked slowly as the wind pushed it back and forth.\u00a0 He watched it for a moment, mesmerized by the movement and the sound as shadows played across the old equipment.\u00a0 Solidifying his resolve, David got out, locked the car and made his way to Kelly’s apartment.\u00a0 He shivered briefly in the chill night air and then entered the apartment complex, winding towards the back area where Kelly lived.<\/p>\n
David stood in front of Kelly’s door with her spare key in his hand.\u00a0 When he pressed the key into the lock, a sudden noise came from within Kelly’s apartment, followed by a crash and a door slamming.\u00a0 David paused.\u00a0 “Kelly?”\u00a0 He asked loudly.\u00a0 “Kelly?\u00a0 I’m coming in.\u00a0 Are you all right?”\u00a0 David turned the key and then opened the door carefully.<\/p>\n
All of the lights were out in the apartment and there was a strange musky smell in the air – a combination of sweat (as if from hard labor), a scent reminding him of the forest floor and other things.\u00a0 The bathroom door was closed ahead of him.\u00a0 He could hear a coarse, low sound coming from somewhere in the apartment.\u00a0 “Kelly?”\u00a0 He half-whispered, cursing himself for the pang of fear that shot through him.\u00a0 He set the grocery bag down near the entry door.<\/p>\n
The voice that answered him was wrong.\u00a0 Muffled.\u00a0 He could tell it was Kelly but it was off.\u00a0 “David?”\u00a0 She sounded confused.\u00a0 “I said don’t come.\u00a0 I’m sick.\u00a0 Just.\u00a0 Just go.\u00a0 Please.\u00a0 Oh god.\u00a0 Please.\u00a0 Go.”<\/p>\n
David walked carefully to the bathroom door.\u00a0 “It’s okay, Kelly.\u00a0 I had to help raise my little brother.\u00a0 I’ve seen all kinds of sick.\u00a0 I’m coming in, okay?\u00a0 You’re… decent, right?\u00a0 I’ll help you back to bed and get some hot ginger tea going.\u00a0 And maybe some chicken soup?”\u00a0 He opened the door carefully, watching the dark floor for vomit but was instead hit with a sudden intense wave of the musky scent from earlier.\u00a0 David peeked around the corner and saw the vague form of Kelly curled into a ball by the sink.\u00a0 “Kel?\u00a0 I’m turning on the light okay, sweetheart?”<\/p>\n
The world changed for David Williams the moment he flipped the light switch.\u00a0 He froze, unable to process what his eyes were telling him.<\/p>\n
Kelly sat naked on the floor in front of the bathroom sink, knees covering her chest and her arms wrapped around her legs.\u00a0 She had her head tucked down against her chest, hiding her face from David, and he could only see part of her front, the left side of her body and her back.\u00a0 He instinctively looked for her face and saw the slight tip to her ears – points she’d never had before.\u00a0 There was a light growth of dark hair on the tops of her shoulders that trailed down in a line to her forearms.\u00a0 Her entire body was soaked in sweat.\u00a0 The hair covering her shoulders lined her spine and down her lower back and up to the point of a stub of a tail slowly wriggling at the base of her spine.<\/p>\n
David’s mind screamed at him.\u00a0 It was wrong.\u00a0 It was all wrong.\u00a0 It was Kelly – her pale light skin and auburn hair.\u00a0 Her arms were more defined and her legs were thicker than he remembered seeing in the brief glances he stole when she wore a dress or skirt but it was still Kelly.<\/p>\n
As he watched, dark, nearly black hairs grew from her calf muscles.\u00a0 Kelly shifted, moaning in pain or pleasure, shoulders working as if she were releasing stress, back and down, muscles she’d never had in her back flexing around her shoulder blades.<\/p>\n
When she looked at him, her eyes were the color of sunshine filtering through a drop of honey.\u00a0 David sat hard on his ass in the hallway, blinking in confusion as his mouth worked to form a sentence.\u00a0 Her lips were dark black and split slightly at the top, showing her canine teeth and an expression of pain and confusion.\u00a0 Her jaw, so delicate before, was thicker.\u00a0 Her face looked slightly longer and David swore she had more teeth than she should.<\/p>\n
“Wha… wha…. Kelly… wha…”\u00a0 David sputtered, trying to form rational thought.\u00a0 The fingers of her left hand were larger, her whole hand bigger and tipped in thick black claws except for her thumb.<\/p>\n
“David.\u00a0 I told you not to come.\u00a0 I told you.\u00a0 I-\u00a0 What… what is that?”\u00a0 Kelly’s voice was slightly muffled but still recognizably hers.\u00a0 She stopped, tilting her head back and closing her eyes.\u00a0 Small auburn and black hairs pushed through the skin of her cheeks and along her chin as David watched.\u00a0 He couldn’t look away from her mouth.\u00a0 Beautiful white teeth against dead black lips.\u00a0 Her canine teeth were longer – she couldn’t close her mouth all the way.\u00a0 Four of the teeth near her canines were nearly as long and as sharp as her canines were now.\u00a0 And, now that he noticed, he saw a bloody tooth on the ground near her sweaty body.<\/p>\n
Kelly sat up to her knees, still sniffing the air with her eyes closed.\u00a0 David couldn’t help but look at her nakedness.\u00a0 Her hips were wider – he’d felt the curve of her body and there wasn’t much there before.\u00a0 Now, the swoop from the side of her chest to her hips was noticeable.\u00a0 Her stomach was completely flat and muscular, leading down to thighs nearly as thick as his own, larger than they were just minutes ago.\u00a0 Her vagina was completely covered by a thick tuft of fur that lead up to a line of hair leading to her belly button – a fluffy “happy trail.”\u00a0 Her breasts were as small as he\u2019d imagined, a small handful but perky with large, rock hard nipples that dented in slightly at the tip.\u00a0 Her nipples were black and, while he’d never seen them before, he was sure they weren’t that color before.\u00a0 The line of hair growing down from her chin ran to her neck, little hairs dotting out and around and then down the front of her chest and between her breasts, meeting the hair around her belly button.<\/p>\n
With another moan, one sounding nearly close to sexual, Kelly licked around her lips with a tongue too large for her mouth.\u00a0 “David…”\u00a0 She opened her beautiful eyes to stare at him.\u00a0 Her right hand was nearly as large as her left but there were no claws.\u00a0 She rubbed herself down her right breast, rocking slightly on her hips at the touch to her nipple and then down the new growth of fur on her stomach and into the thick hair around her pussy.\u00a0 David could smell her wetness mixed in with the other smells.\u00a0 It was intoxicating and his head swam from it all.<\/p>\n
Kelly made a slow circuit of her black lips with her dog-like tongue again, rubbing herself as she stared at David.\u00a0 And then, she leaned forward to fall to her hands and knees.\u00a0 “David,” she moaned again.\u00a0 Her small breasts hung lightly in front of her as she held the position, again closing her eyes to sniff the air.\u00a0 The skin of her philtrum darkened and turned black above her lips.\u00a0 Kelly shook her head slowly side to side and whined slightly.\u00a0 The stub of her tail was longer now and completely covered in black fur.\u00a0 She arched her back up and then down, raising her ass in the air as hairs erupted around her entire back.<\/p>\n
She crawled to him, swaying her hips as she did.\u00a0 David was transfixed.\u00a0 One hand (clawed) and one knee, ass swishing and then the other hand (no claws) and other knee.\u00a0 Closer and closer until her head was inches away.\u00a0 Her eyes snapped open and she looked up at him.\u00a0 His heart was racing.\u00a0 The smell was intense.\u00a0 The smell of her wetness.\u00a0 The smell of her sweat.\u00a0 The other smells of her – the smells that made him think of the rich earth on the floor of a forest and exotic spices in a foreign market.\u00a0 Kelly lowered her head to his crotch, nearly purring as she nuzzled against him.<\/p>\n
Despite the scene in front of him, David was completely hard.\u00a0 He wanted to touch her but his hands wouldn’t move.\u00a0 He watched as the little black and brown and honey colored hairs lengthened on her back, darkening as they did, growing down to cover her ass.\u00a0 She moaned, shuddering and nipping at his dick through his pants.\u00a0 She reached for his thighs with her right hand and he felt the tips of her claws cut into him.\u00a0 Looking down, he saw her already deadly looking nails turn black.\u00a0 It hurt where she cut into him but he still couldn’t move.<\/p>\n
“Kelly,” he said, uncertain.\u00a0 “Kelly, come back to me.”\u00a0 Her heart shaped ass wriggled at the mention of her name and the tail flexed, growing longer. \u00a0Finally, he reached down, gently holding her face and guiding it up.\u00a0 She closed her eyes and pushed against it, nuzzling his hand over and over.\u00a0 The heat from her body was intense and he could feel her jaw changing under his hand.\u00a0 She was so soft.\u00a0 With fur.\u00a0 He could feel the hairs that he couldn’t see yet, just there at the surface and covering her cheek.\u00a0 “Kelly, no.\u00a0 This isn’t right.\u00a0 This isn’t right.”\u00a0 He pushed back from her and her eyes cracked open again, watching him.\u00a0 David stood and grabbed a towel hanging near the bathroom door and reached for her.\u00a0 She stood for him and he was glad because he wasn\u2019t sure he could lift her.<\/p>\n
David wrapped Kelly in the towel.\u00a0 She was nearly as tall as he was now and the towel barely covered her body.\u00a0 When he gently pulled her hand, she followed and he led her to the couch in the living room.\u00a0 “Sit with me Kelly.\u00a0 I don’t understand any of this but I can’t just leave you like this.\u00a0 Sit with me.”\u00a0 David sat at the end of the couch and pulled Kelly with him. \u00a0She sat at his side in the middle of the couch and her eyes never left his face.\u00a0 She moved and the towel fell away, showing her sweat-soaked body.\u00a0 The fur lining her was matted with it and the smell was stronger than ever.\u00a0 He couldn’t understand why it wasn’t a bad smell.\u00a0 He’d had a dog as a child and wet dog smell was terrible.<\/p>\n
He reached for the towel to try to cover her again but she reached a thick-muscled right hand out to stop him.\u00a0 “No, David.\u00a0 It doesn’t feel right any more.\u00a0 I don’t want it.”\u00a0 Her hand went to his thigh again, kneading at his flesh, scratching and massaging.\u00a0 David jerked under the pressure and strength and pain of it all.\u00a0 Her claws were like needles and he knew he had to be bleeding.<\/p>\n
“Kelly, this isn’t right.\u00a0 This isn’t you.\u00a0 Please.\u00a0 Please stop.\u00a0 I can’t do this.”\u00a0 She reached for his wrist and tugged him towards her leg, placing it there.\u00a0 His hand automatically rubbed along the smooth, hard surface of her thigh, reveling in the feel of the soft down of fur.\u00a0 She purred again, pulling his hand higher up her leg to her hip but he yanked it away.\u00a0 “I can’t.\u00a0 I can’t, Kelly.\u00a0 I can’t.”<\/p>\n
She sighed and then moved, reaching her left leg around to straddle David’s lap.\u00a0 She was incredibly heavy – dense with muscle and soft with fur and patches of her creamy white skin still hairless.\u00a0 David had to force his hands to his sides, quelling his near immediate reaction to place his hands on his naked girlfriend’s hips.<\/p>\n
Kelly’s voice was slightly gravely and a little slurred but he could still recognize the words.\u00a0 “It’s okay, David.\u00a0 It’s me in here.\u00a0 It’s me.\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 Yes.”\u00a0 Kelly’s hips moved and he marveled at the weight of her – he was stuck while she grinded against him.\u00a0 David gripped his hands on the couch around him, trying to deny how incredibly turned on he was.\u00a0 “It’s okay to touch me, David.\u00a0 You don’t know what it’s like.\u00a0 You don’t know what this is like.\u00a0 Oh god.\u00a0 It feels so incredible, David.\u00a0 It makes everything so alive.\u00a0 Uh.\u00a0 Uh.”\u00a0 She was pushing harder against him and he felt the cuts in his leg sting from the sweat coming from her body.\u00a0\u00a0 Her breasts were directly in front of his face.\u00a0 Her small breasts on a nearly fur-less chest.\u00a0 He watched while her body rocked back and forth, muscles flexing as they grew and moved.<\/p>\n
The fur along her thighs thickened but the sight of four black patches of skin along the sides of her completely hard stomach drew his attention.\u00a0 Her skin puckered and twisted while he watched and six tiny nipples sprouted out of her stomach in three rows.\u00a0 Kelly yelped and dug into the couch behind him, tearing and kneading at the cheap leather.\u00a0 The nipples doubled in size while the skin around toughened and turned into little areola and then out into small breasts.\u00a0 She pressed herself against his body, rubbing the new breasts against him.\u00a0 He felt the drag of all six nipples on his shirt and body.\u00a0 He couldn’t breathe.\u00a0 She wasn’t suffocating him but the smell and the sensations were too much.<\/p>\n
Time fractured around him. When David was younger, he’d dated a girl that smoked a lot of pot.\u00a0 He’d indulge every so often but he never liked how it messed with his short term memory loss.\u00a0 And, now, he was experiencing it again.\u00a0 He lived in chunks of time.\u00a0 His hands were on her ass now, large and so soft.\u00a0 Fingertips digging into her furry ass, spreading the cheeks and releasing the strong scent of her wet pussy every time he did it.\u00a0 Making it worse.\u00a0 Making time worse.\u00a0 (blink)\u00a0 Now his mouth was on one of her middle breasts and she was mewling as he sucked at it, ignoring the fur slowly growing down the middle of her chest.\u00a0 Not caring how the hair got in his mouth as he licked and sucked at the slippery, salty nipple.\u00a0 (blink)\u00a0 Now she was panting and laying against him.\u00a0 So heavy.\u00a0 The room smelled heavily of sex and she was twitching.\u00a0 Her tail, longer and thicker now, lay against his leg.\u00a0 His shirt was off and he didn’t remember taking it off.\u00a0 She was incredibly warm and soft against his chest.\u00a0 His hands explored the bumps and ridges of her strong back, taking tufts of fur in his fingers and twisting them gently.\u00a0 (blink)\u00a0 She was kneeling in front of him, tugging at his pants.\u00a0 Her four other breasts were half the size of her … (original?) tits.\u00a0 He laughed at the thought and then grimaced at the pain in his legs.\u00a0 The cuts burned.\u00a0 His hands were somehow on his buttons, trying to undo them for her.\u00a0 She smiled at him and her nose was black and pebbled, glistening wet in the light.\u00a0 Her teeth were nearly all sharp.<\/p>\n
(blink)\u00a0 Focus.<\/i>\u00a0 (blink)\u00a0 Focus.\u00a0 (blink)\u00a0 FOCUS! <\/i>He screamed at himself.\u00a0 And, he did.\u00a0 Time snapped back.\u00a0 He was completely naked on the couch and Kelly was still kneeling in front of him.\u00a0 His hands were in her hair, just running through the heavy strands over and over.\u00a0 Her ears crunched and grew around his fingers, lengthening to even sharper points.\u00a0 She had a quarter muzzle now, and a full face of fur.\u00a0 His dick was in her hands.\u00a0 Paws.\u00a0 Thick black padding covered the bottoms of her furred paws and she was gently stroking his shaft, watching it as if hypnotized.<\/p>\n
“I neverrrr touched,” Kelly rumbled at him.\u00a0 “I neeeverrrr touched one.\u00a0 Soft but harrrrrd too.”\u00a0 She leaned forward and stuck her nose into the fold of his thigh and crotch.\u00a0 David jumped at the coldness of her nose.\u00a0 “You smell good.\u00a0 So good.”\u00a0 Kelly’s tongue rolled out of her muzzle and touched the bottom of his dick.\u00a0 Slowly, she ran her tongue up the length of him and around the head of his cock.\u00a0 And then, almost nervously, she looked up at him.\u00a0 “Is that all rrrrright?”\u00a0 She asked.\u00a0 “Is it good?”\u00a0 Her hair was pulled back and mixed in with the fur from the top of her hair – the various colors blended together at the roots, brown and red and black but mostly brown.\u00a0 Her eyes were a pool of gold and he couldn’t stop watching them.\u00a0 She had a hard time closing her mouth all the way and bits of white drool lined the corner of her mouth.\u00a0 Her tongue worked along her lips, cleaning them off, but David was pretty sure she wasn’t even aware of doing it.<\/p>\n
He looked down at his beautiful girlfriend.\u00a0 Her back, shoulders and ass were completely covered in a thick carpet of fur.\u00a0 The back and inside of her legs were also completely furry but the rest of her legs were covered in short black and brown hair.\u00a0 The only patch of fur on her belly was a thick line running from her pussy to the bottom of the neck.\u00a0 Her breasts (all four sets) and the side of her body was still hairless – although David could see tiny black and brown hairs along the naked flesh.\u00a0 The strong, cable-like muscles on her shoulders and forearms were similarly hidden beneath tufts of the thicker hair.\u00a0 Her tail was full and luxurious, thick and heavy and slowly, sensuously sweeping along the floor behind her.\u00a0 David watched her lower back muscles work as the tail moved.<\/p>\n
David jumped at the feeling of her rough tongue sliding along the head of his dick but he nodded, gripping her hair tightly.\u00a0 Pulling her back down.\u00a0 She went eagerly and her tongue nearly enveloped his dick, folding around his thickness.\u00a0 David reached down to idly scratch at the cuts in his leg but then he stopped.\u00a0 Hair.\u00a0 Fur.\u00a0 He looked down.\u00a0 Fur was growing along the cuts in his leg.\u00a0 Where Kelly had dug into his leg.\u00a0 Fur.\u00a0 On him.\u00a0 His fur.\u00a0 His – “Oh Jesus!”\u00a0 He screamed.\u00a0 Kelly had taken his entire dick into her mouth.\u00a0 She was incredibly warm and soft.\u00a0 She didn’t even have to swallow to take all of him.\u00a0 Gently, she moved back and forth, sucking on his dick while David grabbed the side of her head, long wolf-like ears, hair and fur between his fingers.\u00a0 “Ah!\u00a0 Kelly!\u00a0 Oh fuck!”<\/p>\n
She stopped and looked at David anxiously again.\u00a0 “Is it good?\u00a0 Is it okay, David?”\u00a0 He nodded, afraid to talk.\u00a0 He’d never experienced a blow job like hers – it was a step away from the best sex he’d ever had.\u00a0 Her mouth was completely wet and soft and warm and she was so gently with her tongue.\u00a0 It rubbed and moved against him like it was alive.\u00a0 His leg flared up and brought him back again.\u00a0 It ached but not terribly.<\/p>\n
“I’m so hot, Kelly.\u00a0 I’m.\u00a0 Oh fuck, it’s so hot in here.\u00a0 I’m burning up, Kelly.\u00a0 The window.\u00a0 Open the window.\u00a0 Please.”\u00a0 He shook, panting to try to cool off.<\/p>\n
“David.\u00a0 Oh my beautiful David.\u00a0 You’rrrrre changing too.\u00a0 Look.\u00a0 Look at you, David.”\u00a0 He looked.\u00a0 His dick was growing.\u00a0 Veins stood out and throbbed.\u00a0 The base of his dick above his balls ballooned out as his shaft grew and thickened.\u00a0 To either side of his cock, his legs had nearly double in size and his feet were cracking under the strain of his own change.\u00a0 He marveled at the lack of pain.\u00a0 Kelly whined and he looked up at her.\u00a0 She was rubbing herself hard while watching his dick grow up.<\/p>\n
“A knot,” Kelly said.\u00a0 She reached carefully out with her clawed hand, sharp black points carefully avoiding his throbbing member.\u00a0 “Like a dog.\u00a0 It’s…”\u00a0 Kelly growled and something fierce flashed behind her eyes.\u00a0 “No.\u00a0 Wolf.\u00a0 Like wolf.\u00a0 My wolf.\u00a0 It’s – I want it.”\u00a0 The rough padding of her paw slid down his length.\u00a0 Kelly was panting with need and David could smell her – could smell how incredibly turned on she was suddenly.\u00a0 “I feel the wolf, David.\u00a0 In me.\u00a0 I know what she wants.\u00a0 I see it clearly.\u00a0 I see it.\u00a0 She can feel that… yourrr penis in herrrrrr.\u00a0 On herrr knees.\u00a0 Herrrrr mate inside of herrrrr.\u00a0 I want it, too.\u00a0 I want to feel yourrrrr knot in me, David.\u00a0 Will you?”\u00a0 Kelly opened herself with her free hand and pushed a finger inside of her wetness.<\/p>\n
The warm alluring scent of Kelly’s pussy slammed into David’s nose and a growl bubbled up from him before he realized he was doing it.\u00a0 His jaw itched and a sudden intense burn in his nose made him rub his hand against his face.\u00a0 His nose was cold and wet and he could feel the way it was textured differently.\u00a0 His dick was ludicrously large now.\u00a0 He didn’t even know what size it was but he knew if he bent over far enough, he could take it into his mouth.\u00a0 The knot at the base of his dick was the size of a tennis ball and, as he watched, fur grew in waves from the base of his dick and around the thick skin under the knot.\u00a0 The head of his dick grew to a final, large, slanted tapered point.<\/p>\n
Kelly was frantic, thick arms and padded fingers rubbing against her clit fiercely while another finger joined the first, slipping easily inside of herself.\u00a0 He could smell her even more strongly now.\u00a0 Her need.\u00a0 “I… rrrr… Daarrrrrr… rrrrr….”\u00a0 David’s dick throbbed in front of Kelly and she whined for it.\u00a0 David stood, unsteady on his new legs.\u00a0 Looking down on his girlfriend.\u00a0 She arched her back, chest heaving and the skin around her top breasts grew, d-cups.\u00a0 More.\u00a0 She fondled herself as she rubbed her clit, pussy fur slick from sweat and her own orgasms.<\/p>\n
Two of his teeth fell to the ground but he didn’t even notice as new fangs replaced them.\u00a0 Claws pushed from the tips of his hands.\u00a0 Black claws that looked dense enough to cut through stone.\u00a0 The hairs along David’s forearms tripled in density but stopped short of actual fur.\u00a0 He could feel the same thing happening along his back and shoulders.\u00a0 Fine hairs growing along his natural body hair pattern but not quite turning into thick fur.\u00a0 His body felt heavy with muscle but, paradoxically, also as light as a feather.\u00a0 His jaw crunched and pushed out an inch before stopping and when he crossed his eyes, he could see the black tip of his nose.\u00a0 His face, not even a quarter of a muzzle, felt alien to him and he had to keep watch of his tongue – quite a few of his front teeth were sharp enough to slice.\u00a0 His wolf’s cock, knotted and with its unique slanted tip bobbed in the air.\u00a0 His thick, furry sheath was pulled back behind his knot and the skin of his new dick was a different shade of pink.\u00a0 The fur (actual fur unlike what was on the rest of his body) covered part of his thighs and came up in a peak to his belly button but went no further. \u00a0His stomach, chest and arms were ripped with muscles.<\/p>\n
David turned his larger, clawed hands over, back and forth.\u00a0 The palms of his hands were rough but not thick black pads like Kelly had.\u00a0 “It’s… I think it stopped, Kelly.”\u00a0 His tongue felt awkward in his mouth and the words came out slightly slurred.<\/p>\n
Kelly was slowly sucking on the fingers from her pussy.\u00a0 Her eyes were locked on David’s throbbing cock.\u00a0 “Yes.\u00a0 Last time I didn’t have a tail orrrr these otherrrrrr brrrrreasts.\u00a0 Orrrr furrrr like this.\u00a0 Please, David.\u00a0 Please.\u00a0 She needs you.\u00a0 I need you.”<\/p>\n
David knelt before Kelly, almost stumbling as he learned his new center of balance and the size of his body.\u00a0 He touched the side of her face, rubbing her furry jaw.\u00a0 Kelly’s hand reached for David’s dick but he gently grabbed her wrist and pushed her away.\u00a0 With his hand on the back of her neck, he pulled her towards him and they kissed.\u00a0 Jaws at angle to accommodate their elongated faces, longer tongues carefully exploring and twisting in each other’s muzzles, they kissed as lovers.\u00a0 David’s hand explored the thick fur along Kelly’s back, up and down her spine.\u00a0 She growled appreciatively as he lightly scratched her.\u00a0 David held Kelly’s upper and lower back tightly, fingers gripping her fur.\u00a0 He pulled her upper body back, titling her and she followed.\u00a0 He bent to her large chest and she moaned as he carefully licked around the nipple on her upper breasts.\u00a0 Even more carefully, David bit at the nipple causing Kelly to gasp.\u00a0 It took a moment for him to discover how to use his new mouth to suckle but the very wolf-like whine Kelly rewarded him with made him glad he tried.\u00a0 The fur along the middle of Kelly’s belly tickled against the side of his face.\u00a0 Again Kelly reached down to David’s cock but this time, he didn’t stop her.\u00a0\u00a0 He felt Kelly press the tip of his dick down and then he almost bit down hard on her nipple when he felt the tip slip between her burning hot pussy lips.<\/p>\n
Foreplay had always been important for David, especially with a new lover.\u00a0 To take his time and explore the lady’s body and discover where she was sensitive and what she liked.\u00a0 He loved it.\u00a0 But, at this exact moment, he felt something at the back of his mind.\u00a0 A presence both alien and… right at the same time.\u00a0 A… a wolf prowling at the back of his mind.\u00a0 He felt it in the way it pushed him and now he knew what Kelly meant when she said the wolf in her wanted him.\u00a0 This other thing in his mind wanted her.\u00a0 It wanted to rut.\u00a0 It was pain and violence and absolute dominance.\u00a0 His hands suddenly twitched to grab Kelly by the back of her neck and throw her to the ground.\u00a0 A growl escaped his lips as it told him to force her on her hands and knees.\u00a0 To mate with her.\u00a0 To take the female and plant his seed in her so that he might father many strong pups.\u00a0 A voice laughing at him, at the way he was slowly taking his time.\u00a0 Wasting his time.\u00a0 It came hard and fast and took nearly every ounce of concentration to ignore it.<\/p>\n
“Kelly,” David gasped.\u00a0 “Kelly, I need you.\u00a0 Now.\u00a0 I need it now.\u00a0\u00a0 Badly.\u00a0 I’m sorry.\u00a0 I need you.”<\/p>\n
The corners of Kelly’s lips turned up slightly in what David could only guess was a grin.\u00a0 “Yes.\u00a0 Don’t apologize.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Please.”\u00a0 When David tried to lay Kelly down on her back, she put her hand on his chest to stop him.\u00a0 “No.\u00a0 No, not like that.”\u00a0 Kelly pushed away.\u00a0 Her eyes locked onto David’s eyes as she turned around on her knees.\u00a0 With her muzzle turned to continue looking at David, she leaned forward and all four sets of her breasts fell forward with her.\u00a0 Kelly lifted her thick brown tail and the sudden heavy scent of her pussy rolled over David.\u00a0 He bit his lips, easily drawing blood with his fangs as he fought against the growling predator raging at the back of his mind.\u00a0 The mindless beast that roared and howled at the sight and scent of its mate.\u00a0 The fur around Kelly’s black pussy lips was matted down with her juices.<\/p>\n
“Come to me,” she crooned.\u00a0 Her voice was rocky and hoarse and the most beautiful thing he’d ever heard.<\/p>\n
David automatically went to his knees behind Kelly and shoved his nose against her pussy.\u00a0 She was so warm against his wet, cold nose.\u00a0 His tongue, longer now, lashed out, tasting the thick wetness between her thighs.\u00a0 He gripped her ass, pulling her cheeks farther apart as he sucked on her pussy, feeling her hips jerk and push back against him.\u00a0 He twisted his claws into her fur, feeling the way her proud tail swished against the tips of his ears.\u00a0 She moaned, growling low as his tongue penetrated her.\u00a0 She tasted like no other woman he’d ever had.\u00a0 He worked his tongue as deep into her as he could, feeling how soaked his face became from her juices.\u00a0 Feeling the wet, soaked fur around her cunt as she grunted from the way his tongue felt.<\/p>\n
He could take it no more.\u00a0 The beast inside of him was shrieking with rage and David knew that if he waited any longer, it would take over and he would hurt Kelly badly when he took her.\u00a0 The thick hairs along his arms and shoulders stood at attention as he struggled to maintain control.\u00a0 He stood again and Kelly looked back again, her tongue out as she panted from the attention David had just paid to her.\u00a0 Her long feet, made for walking on the tips of her toes, dug sharp claws into the carpet as she arched for him.\u00a0 She knew what was coming and she rested her upper body on the floor as she waited.\u00a0 Her heavy breasts rested against the thick carpet.\u00a0 Her tail stood at proud attention up and away from her ass and she slowly wriggled back and forth in anticipation.<\/p>\n
David knelt behind Kelly but the wolf’s influence was suddenly too much; he went to his hands and feet above her slightly larger body.\u00a0 As an animal on all fours.\u00a0 Kelly’s tail pressed hard against his chest.\u00a0 He growled as he struggled with what the wolf wanted.\u00a0 In a feat of strength that he’d never had before, he held himself up with one hand and gripped his massive cock with his other.\u00a0 A line of drool fell from his mouth as his concentration slipped.\u00a0 The wolf saw Kelly’s furry, unprotected neck and he wanted to bite down.\u00a0 To feel her flesh and fur between his teeth as he rutted.\u00a0 A harder growl made his teeth vibrate as he slowly guided himself to her.\u00a0 David easily lowered himself with one arm until he felt the odd tip of his new cock press against her.\u00a0 She was incredibly wet – enough that he accidentally slipped into her a little bit.\u00a0 Her burning hot, jet-black pussy lips opened for him with a wet sucking sound.\u00a0 Kelly shivered under him, moaning in barely restrained lust.\u00a0 She started to push back against him and David lost the fight.\u00a0 With a harsh roar, his teeth clamped around the back of Kelly’s neck, the wolf furious that the female would think to take the first move.\u00a0 Kelly yelped and shook under him but immediately stopped moving.\u00a0 David continued to growl with his teeth sunk into her neck.<\/p>\n
He could taste her blood.\u00a0 With an immense push, David came back to the surface.\u00a0 He pulled his mouth away in horror but couldn’t stop the reflexive way his tongue licked around his slightly black lips.\u00a0 “Oh my god! Kelly, oh my god, I’m so sorry.”<\/p>\n
Kelly turned her elongated face to look back at him.\u00a0 “David…”\u00a0 Her voice caught and she wet her lips before continuing.\u00a0 “David…”\u00a0 Another pause and she almost looked bashful.\u00a0 “I liked it.”<\/p>\n
“You…”\u00a0 David cocked his head.\u00a0 “But…”<\/p>\n
“David, I’m yourrrrrrs.\u00a0 I underrrrrstand.\u00a0 I won’t move.\u00a0 But please hurry.\u00a0 Please.\u00a0 Be my mate.\u00a0 Mount me.\u00a0 I can’t hold herrrrr back much longerrrrr.”<\/p>\n
David was still above Kelly.\u00a0 His feet, slightly longer and tipped in small black claws held him steady on the floor as the rested on his hands.\u00a0 The tip of his cock, a thinner tip than the head of his old cock, lay between Kelly’s pussy lips.\u00a0 The cock’s skin was thinner and more slick.\u00a0 He could feel the beat of Kelly’s heart in her engorged pussy lips.\u00a0 He wanted to stop and marvel at the way her juices felt against the skin of his wolf’s cock.\u00a0 It was more sensitive to everything – her heat, her wetness and the feeling of the skin inside of her against his own.\u00a0 He wanted to take his time but he couldn’t.\u00a0 Despite what she said, he wouldn’t allow himself to hurt her again.<\/p>\n
He pressed the tip (he could no longer think of it as a ‘head’) of his dick further into Kelly and she moaned, wanting to push back but waiting for him.\u00a0 She grit her teeth, growling in pain and pushing her muzzle hard against the floor with her eyes closed when he pressed further in, muscles never before used for penetration now opening for her mate.\u00a0 He pressed even deeper and she was nearly weeping from the pain but no longer able to stop herself from pushing back in need.\u00a0 David entered Kelly until his knot pressed against her pussy lips.\u00a0 She raised her head then, watching him.\u00a0 Waiting.\u00a0 Wanting.\u00a0 In pain from her virgin pussy being forced open but wanting her mate so badly.<\/p>\n
An instinct forced David to set his claws against the fur of Kelly’s back.\u00a0 The wolf roared in triumph and tried to force him to rake his claws hard down her back but David lightly ran the claws down and around Kelly’s spine. \u00a0She shuddered, laying her head down on the ground briefly.\u00a0 As changed as he was, as strong as he felt, he was still there.\u00a0 He still saw that shy girl that kissed him goodnight.\u00a0 He looked down to his dick, buried inside her.\u00a0 The way his knot split open her pussy lips even further.\u00a0 He pulled out and she yelped in pain.\u00a0 And then back in, slowly, stopping as the knot touched her.\u00a0 And then out again.\u00a0 The urge to push faster and harder drilled into him until there came an intense itching in his teeth.\u00a0 An itching that signaled his brain to bite and tear and hurt.\u00a0 Slowly still, ignoring the foreign urges.\u00a0 In and out.\u00a0 She was incredibly tight around his cock but the thinner skin helped him move easier.\u00a0 Slightly faster now.\u00a0 She was panting from it.\u00a0 Her mouth worked as she tried to form words but, instead, a very dog-like whine came out.\u00a0 He pushed in again and she tore pieces from the carpet with her claws.\u00a0 She pushed back against him as he pulled out, not wanting to let him go.\u00a0 The fur along her thighs lay flat and wet from her excitement.\u00a0 He pressed harder.\u00a0 Faster.\u00a0 The knot almost entered her and she yelped in sudden pain.\u00a0 Out and she was moaning for more.\u00a0 In.\u00a0 Out.<\/p>\n
David’s concentration slipped and the wolf forced his hand.\u00a0 He slammed into her, growling with his need and she howled in pain, feet and hands scrabbling at the floor as his knot completely spread her wet, black-lipped cunt wide open.\u00a0 Her pussy surrounded his knot, greedily sucking it in and settling around him until he could barely pull it out.\u00a0 David snapped back and tried to apologize but stopped when he felt Kelly pushing hard back against him.\u00a0 When he tried to pull out so he could push back in, he found he couldn’t.<\/p>\n
He was knotted inside of his mate.<\/p>\n
Kelly whined, her tone begging for more as she wriggled her furry ass at him.\u00a0 David shifted position above her and then timed his movement, slamming into her with small movements as she pushed back.\u00a0 His knot stretched her opening over and over again as he pulled slightly back.\u00a0 All six of Kelly’s black nipples rubbed against the carpet until she picked herself up to her hands, pushing back even harder against David now, tail rubbing against the side of his still-human chest.<\/p>\n
David paused, ignoring Kelly’s inquisitive whine.\u00a0 He went to his knees and then settled back to grip her waist.\u00a0 He pulled out as much as he could and watched as the Kelly’s pussy bulged out.\u00a0 He wished he had more time to watch what he was doing.\u00a0 Often, he loved to watch his dick work in and out of a woman – it was nearly a kink of his to watch.\u00a0 He loved seeing the lady’s pussy lips suck at his dick, opening for him as they fucked.\u00a0 This was even more erotic to him.\u00a0 He couldn’t feel his knot nearly as well as the rest of his dick but watching it open her was incredibly hot.\u00a0 Kelly pushed back and David’s claws cut into her before he could control them.\u00a0 He growled and pulled back, matching her rhythm once again.\u00a0 Hard.\u00a0 Faster.\u00a0 Digging claws into her flesh and ignoring what it was doing.\u00a0 Becoming lost in it as he felt the pressure building.\u00a0 Wrinkles forming around the nose of his slightly longer face as he contorted into a mask of furious concentration.<\/p>\n
Kelly’s breathing became erratic. David held her waist and used all of his new muscles to pound in and out of her as hard as he could.\u00a0 The knot nearly slipped out several times as Kelly fell to the ground, unable to hold herself up from the onslaught.\u00a0 Her breath left her and the world went white from the firestorm in her belly as her orgasm rolled through her pussy, storming through her body and to the tips of her ears and toes.\u00a0 She couldn’t breathe or scream or howl as every nerve in her body lit up.\u00a0 She tensed and then barely relaxed before tensing again.\u00a0 She wanted to beg David to stop.\u00a0 Beg him to fuck her harder.\u00a0 Plead with him to pull out because it was too much.\u00a0 He wouldn’t.\u00a0 He didn’t.\u00a0 David’s breathing was ragged, growling, slamming into her now.\u00a0 Her wetness making sloppy sucking noises as he fucked her.<\/p>\n
Finally, David stopped, jerking to a halt.\u00a0 The wolf pushed him in as deep as he could go and David felt Kelly’s cervix against the tip of his cock.\u00a0 Kelly felt David’s dick swell to nearly twice its size.\u00a0 She screamed now as another orgasm, stronger than the last crashed through her – every ridge and bump and fold inside her tight cunt felt him swell and then the hot jet of his cum slammed into her cervix, filling every small space and then spurting out through the small gaps of her pussy.\u00a0 And again.\u00a0 And again as David came inside of her.\u00a0 The smell of his cum made her delirious.\u00a0 The smell of their scents mixed made her want to bite and snap and rut like the fucking beast she was.\u00a0 She nearly lost her humanity to the way every single nerve in her body lit up in pleasure.\u00a0 Every single piece of her was suddenly too sensitive.<\/p>\n
David collapsed on top of Kelly, panting with his tongue out.\u00a0 Kelly couldn’t catch her breath with him on top of her so she rolled him to the side and he followed her, dick still pressed deep inside her soaking wet cunt.\u00a0 A massive wet spot lay under her thigh but she ignored it.\u00a0 The knot had refused to shrink after swelling while David came.\u00a0 Kelly was sure something would break if he tried to force it out now.\u00a0 But, she ignored it.\u00a0 She loved the way it filled her and she floated on her orgasm.\u00a0 Her mind was full of everything.\u00a0 Him.\u00a0 Herself.\u00a0 The world around them.\u00a0 The possibilities.\u00a0 David’s hand reached around to rest on her hard, slightly furry lower stomach while she lay against his other arm.\u00a0 His fingers played gently with the tuft of fur just above her mound.\u00a0 David licked Kelly’s ear and made a “haruff” sound that seemed to come from nowhere.\u00a0 Kelly pressed her sweat and cum soaked ass against her mate and he pressed deeper into her.<\/p>\n
Slowly, David’s knot shrunk in size until he was able to pull out of Kelly’s pussy.\u00a0 He felt the way her pussy opened suddenly to allow him to come out.\u00a0 A thick stream of his wolf’s cum followed the knot out.\u00a0 Kelly jerked at the feeling, growling and moaning quietly.\u00a0 He licked her neck and ear, burying his face in the thick fur on her neck.\u00a0 His dick stood thick and tall, throbbing in the air, still completely hard and covered in their cum.\u00a0 Kelly struggled up and pressed her cold black nose against his knot.\u00a0 His fingers found her hair and he stroked her gently as her tongue made a slow circle around the base of his cock.\u00a0 She licked up, reaching a large paw to hold David steady for her wet attention.\u00a0 She looked up, golden eyes meeting his own as her tongue worked around his dick, cleaning him off.<\/p>\n
Once clean, she lay back, adjusting her body so her tail lay down and to the side.\u00a0 Her breasts flattened slightly, dark nipples still completely hard.\u00a0 The line of fur on her lower stomach and the fur around her pussy was a darker color than the surrounding fur – slick and wet from their sweat and cum.\u00a0 She spread her muscled thighs, pushing her hips up on claw-tipped toes, holding her knees apart for him.<\/p>\n
David growled and went to his hands above her.\u00a0 The knot of his dick pressed against her hot pussy lips and he licked her face.\u00a0 He worked down her body, stopping to lick all six nipples as she arched her back from the sensations.\u00a0 And then, Kelly reached down, grabbing David’s enormous cock.\u00a0 With her eyes on his face, she pressed the tip into her cunt and it spread eagerly for him.\u00a0 He entered her as a human would, with the lady on her back and him above her.\u00a0 Slowly.\u00a0 Feeling the way her pussy gripped his cock, letting the knot settle against her lips before pulling back.\u00a0 And then again, rocking his hips back and forth as he leaned in to lick her neck, only barely wishing he could properly kiss her.\u00a0 She moaned, lifting herself in time to his rhythm, grunting and growling as the orgasm built in the pit of her stomach.\u00a0 Letting go of her knees, she brought a hand to her breasts, top and middle, tweaking and pulling at the nipples with her slightly shortened fingers.\u00a0 Her muzzle worked, sharp teeth grinding as she growled and begged voicelessly for him.<\/p>\n
They made love this time.\u00a0 Slow and careful.\u00a0 Hands exploring their bodies.\u00a0 The wolf inside of David lay dormant, resting on its metaphorical paws as it watched the two discover each other each other.\u00a0 Kelly hugged David’s body with her arms and legs, gripping him tight as she panted and whined until David came again.\u00a0 His swollen cock pushed her over the edge and she howled like a puppy finding the moon for the first time.\u00a0 Tentative and quiet, her wolf’s voice rang out with her head back and her eyes closed.\u00a0 Her claws dug into David’s back and the pain he expected didn’t happen – he felt an itch that was nearly sensual.\u00a0 With a final jerk from his cock, David collapsed on Kelly’s shuddering form.\u00a0 Kelly bucked once, twice and then wrapped her arms tightly around her mate, gasping for air.<\/p>\n
The two lovers finally fell asleep as dawn spread its deep red arms across the world.\u00a0 They’d made love like humans, her on her back and him above.\u00a0 She’d ridden him, tail thumping against the edge of the bed while his claws dug into her back and her teeth cut into his shoulders.\u00a0 She’d cleaned him off every single time he came in her when he was finally able to pull his knot out.\u00a0 Kelly would never forget the way they tasted together – it sent her into a blissful haze and flashes of electricity danced along her tongue.<\/p>\n
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When they woke mid-morning, they were human and soaked in sweat and cum and dried blood.\u00a0 Kelly lay against David’s stomach, his arm across her small chest.\u00a0 She rubbed back against him, reveling in the way her naked flesh felt against his chest.\u00a0 “Are you hungry, love?\u00a0 I know this wonderful little diner that makes the best sandwiches.”<\/p>\n
David smiled and made lazy circles against her skin with his fingers.\u00a0 “Wherever you want to go, sweetheart.\u00a0 I’m yours.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The mid-day rush of people frantically making their way to or from lunch swarmed around Kelly as she dodged along the wide, hot sidewalk.\u00a0 Her muted apologies (Sorry!, Excuse me!, I’m so sorry!) were smothered by the buzzing of conversations, Continue reading The Coin<\/span>