If anyone had told him the first thing Tucker would do when he saw him again was bend him over a bed and fuck him raw, he never would have believed it, but that’s exactly what happened. He’d gone along with it at first just to try to appease his anger, expecting it to be something he endured for Tucker’s sake. Instead it had been hot and mind-blowing and absolutely wonderful. He wanted to experience it again, but first he had to make Tucker understand he wasn’t so
me kind of monster. He’d seen the look on his face just before he passed out, and he knew he’d have a lot of explaining to do just to get him to stay in the same room with him for a while.
Tucker opened his eyes all at once, not gradually in the least, and looked up at Gavin in total shock. Immediately he strained against his hold, trying to get away. “Let me go! Damn it, let go of me!”
“Tucker, be still,” Gavin said firmly . “I’m not letting you go until you calm down and listen to me. ” He gave him a tight squeeze and a little shake. “Now stop it. ”
Tucker lay back in his arms, breathing hard and looking up at him. “What-what are you?”
“I’m a shape shifter, Tucker. A werewolf. ” He shook his head firmly as Tucker’s eyes widened in horror. “Not like in the stupid movies, baby. I’m not a monster. I won’t hurt you— I’m not going to hurt anybody. I promise!”
“H-how is this possible?” Tucker’s question came out as a hoarse whisper, and his whole body was trembling. Gavin rubbed his hands over his arms, as Tucker had done with him earlier when they’d been making love, trying to soothe him.
“Sweetheart, please calm down. I didn’t know any other way other than just to show you, and I knew it would shock you, but it’s still just me, Gavin. All of us, my entire pack are shape shifters. Your father, too, sweetheart. ”
“Oh my God! My mother—did he—did you…”
“What? Are you going to ask me if we hurt her in some way?” An outraged, indignant expression flitted across his face. “I told you, Tucker, we don’t hurt humans! Especially our mates. ”
“H-humans?”
“Tucker, you saw me shift. You know I’m not human. Neither are you, honey, not entirely. Your father is one of us. ”
Tucker closed his eyes and groaned. “Oh, sweet baby Jesus. ”
Gavin smiled a little and dropped a kiss on his lips, causing his eyes to spring back open. “Oh,” he said, laughing. “Now I can’t kiss you? Better get used to it, because I don’t plan to stop anytime soon. ”
“Shit. Let me up, Gavin. Just let me sit next to you on the sofa. I won’t try to run. ”
“You wouldn’t get very far if you did. If you somehow managed to get past me, two of my men are in the hall. ”
At Tucker’s panicked expression, he shook his head again. “Just as a precaution in case you tried to run, honey. They know better than to ever harm a hair on your head. Not that they would hurt you in any case. ”
Gavin sat Tucker beside him, keeping a hand on his thigh, not so much to guard him, but because he couldn’t stop touching him. He had to mate with Tucker soon—really mate with him—or this thing was going to kill him for sure. “Are you ready for me to go on, honey?”
“Hell, there’s more?”
Gavin smiled a little. “Well, yes. Your mother was human, of course, and your father, my beta, is like me. You know, a member of our pack. He really wants to meet you, baby. I told him I’d get you to come home with me to visit him. ”
“Oh my God. ”
“Tucker, from the first moment I saw you, I knew that you were my mate. My bloodmatch. Wolves only get one bloodmatch, and it’s for life, baby. You’re it for me, forever, and I want to take you for my mate. ”
Tucker looked up at him in confusion, shaking his head. “I-I don’t know what to say. Your mate? This is all too fucking weird. ”
Tucker leaned forward and dropped his head into his hands. Gavin sat beside him quietly, trying to let him absorb some of it, not wanting to push him too far. “Uh,baby,” Gavin said after a moment. “There’s smoke coming out of the oven. ”
Tucker’s head jerked up. “What? Oh shit, the pizza!” He jumped to his feet and ran over to the oven, jerking it open and grabbing a towel to pull out the pan and dump it in the sink. He turned back to the stove to turn off the oven, then slumped against the counter, glaring at Gavin. “Damn it! Am I going to turn into some kind of creature? Is that what you’re telling me?”
“No,” Gavin said firmly, shaking his head. “You’re a non-shifting member of the pack. ” He shifted his gaze downward and cleared his throat. “We-uh…we call the non-shifters our pets, along with the human mates. You see, at puberty, each pack member either turns into a wolf, shifting at the full moon sometime around his twelfth birthday, or he or she stays…more human. ”
“So how am I different from all other…humans?”
“Well, you’ll live a lot longer for one thing. Maybe two hundred years. And you won’t age much at all after your thirtieth birthday or so. I mean, you will eventually, but it will take a long, long time. ”
“So is the fact that you’re a -a wolfman…is that why you have that thing on your dick?”
Gavin smiled. “The bulbus glandis. Yes, it’s a gland that’s used when we mate, mostly for the first time. It secretes a hormone, I guess you’d call it, that helps create the bond between mates. I’ll use it on you when we mate for the first time. ”