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Sex Me Down

families of
Tigeria.
If only it hadn’t been so long since my people have had the privilege of finding their one true mate.” He thrust his fingers through his hair and walked through the broken glass to sit on a chair at the bar. “Go get the female. I fear what I may do if she chooses to struggle. The beast in me may rise once more.”

Sayre inhaled deeply, scenting the animal just below the surface of the other man. “You change quickly. I’ve never seen one of your kind during transformation before, is it normal to change from one form to another so fast?”

Fane shrugged. “It is my ability. I have always been this way. Even when I was nothing more than a young cub, I was able to shift fast.” His gaze met Sayre’s telling him without words that he spoke of
Tigerian
secret. “Even as a cub,
Savari.
Our people normally cannot change as cubs, not until well past puberty can they do so.”

Sayre bowed. “Then I find myself in rare company indeed. Not only are you
Tigerian
royalty but one of the rare
Shinsai.
What else can you do?”

Fane shook his head. “Better to leave the rest until we know each other a bit better. I feel I’ve told you too much already. Go get the woman. She listens to us even now and yet, it’s doing nothing to dispel her fears. Only the touch and scents of her mates will do that.”

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Tianna Xander and Bonnie Rose Leigh

Sayre turned toward the door his mate had disappeared through just moments before, knowing the
Tigerian
was correct. He flexed his fingers as he remembered hearing the solid sound of her jamming the lock into place. It wouldn’t do to face his mate with his hands balled into nervous fists. It could give her the wrong impression. He wiped his damp palms on his pants and raised his hand to knock on the door. Swallowing past the thick lump lodged in his throat, he wondered when his confidence with women had deserted him. Perhaps it was because he knew she was finally
The One
. All of his previous encounters had only led him to this moment, to this woman, to his mate.

“We know you are still there. We have stopped our fighting and we wish only to speak with you. Will you come out and meet your mates?”

He cocked his head to the side. Was that a whimper? Could they really have frightened her so thoroughly that she may never come to them on her own? He closed his eyes and wished they could have been brought together under better circumstances. Still he knew it had taken great courage for the
Tigerian
to believe him and give up his stronger form. He could do no less in facing their mate.

It didn’t take a healer to see the wounds inflicted by obvious torture on the other man’s 26