Beasts Within by Lexi Lewis

not wanting to do something. You’re gorgeous and I like you, and it’s not every day that I get offers like this, okay?”
                  “Okay,” she said, nodding and shifting from foot to foot. “So is that a yes or…”
                  Karic laughed, shaking his head at her. “ Yes , it’s a yes. As long as you know what you’re asking for. And uh…what you’re getting yourself into? How much do you know about shifters and sex?”
                  “About as much as I know about humans and sex,” she replied, shrugging a shoulder. “Not terribly much.”
                  “Well, I suppose you gotta learn sometime. C’mon.” He took her hand and guided her up the stairs, leading her to his bedroom. It smelled more strongly like him in here than in any other room of the house, and his bed looked nice and comfortable. Before she could really look around, Karic grabbed her hips and pulled her into another kiss, sitting down on the bed and bringing her to stand in between his legs. He was so much taller than her that she barely had to lower her head to kiss him back, and she was definitely starting to get the rhythm of kissing down.
                  She really loved the way his lips felt against hers, the way his tongue teased at her lips, encouraging her to part them and let him in. And oh, that was different. Camilla would have expected it to be unpleasant, but it was good, and it sent a flare of heat down through her that was honestly a little shocking.
                  It wasn’t the first time she had felt it, but it had been a while. When she was younger, she’d experimented with touching herself and seeing what felt good, and the pure ferocity of the flame that had burned inside of her had taken her by surprise. She figured it was normal enough, but simply bringing herself off with her fingers and then later her electric toothbrush, did nothing to really settle those flames inside of her, and she had refrained from getting herself worked up like that because the resolution was never satisfying.
                  But she knew it could be different with this. Karic had said that sex with shifters was different, and maybe that was what he meant. Maybe he had an equal ferocity to fan those flames inside of her and then put them out in a satisfying way. Just the thought was thrilling, and she moaned into his mouth, sliding her tongue with his.
                  The growl she got in response was incredibly alluring, and she shivered, pressing closer to him and trying it again.
                  “Camilla,” Karic broke away to say, and his green eyes were dark. “If you keep that up…”
                  “I want it,” she told him, and she could feel that heat inside of her. “ Please. ” That much she did know. She didn’t know how this was going to go, or how it was going to feel, but she knew that she wanted it. It was something she wanted to experience, and she couldn’t think of anyone better to experience it with than him.
                  “Alright,” he said. “But just…I mean it, Camilla. If you want to stop then stop me, okay?”
                  She huffed at him and bit his lower lip teasingly. “Okay, okay. I get it.”
                  “In that case…”
                  In a blindingly fast flurry of movement, Karic used his grip on her hips to lift her up and change their positions so that she ended up flat on her back on the bed with him on top of her, hands braced against the mattress on either side of her head. There was an almost feral gleam in his eyes as he looked down at her, and she couldn’t help but swallow hard. This was happening. And oh god, he looked like he wanted to devour her. In the back of her mind she wondered if there was something wrong with her that made that seem like something she wanted to