Southern Shifters: Stick Shifter (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Moxie North

eyes are they?” she said with a gasp. His thumbs were tormenting her nipples, and it was shooting sizzling shocks straight to her already tingling clit. He was still touching her, so she decided she was still paying for the question.
    “My animal’s,” he answered, leaning down to cover one sweet bud with his mouth. He sucked the nub into his mouth, rolling his tongue over the tip.
    “Wah? Your animal? Like your spirit animal or something?” Delaney was hoping just a few brain cells could stay on track asking questions while the rest of her body was in pussy clenching ecstasy. Will’s tongue was doing wonderfully wicked things to her.
    “No.” He paused to lick the other nipple before returning to the one that was wet and cherry red now. “My animal, my cougar. I’m a shifter. I have a cougar’s soul inside my body, and I can turn into my cat whenever I want.” This was followed by a hard tug on her abused nipple before he switched to the other side.
    Delaney was running through his answer in her head. She’d heard the words, just didn’t actually absorb them. His animal? Was that some sort of euphemism for something? Like was he one of those guys that had t-shirts with cougars on them, or a painful but kind of lame tattoo on his back of a mountain lion?
    Grabbing his hair in both hands, Delaney removed Will from her breast even though he fought her for a second. “What do you mean your cougar?” Delaney could see the glowing bright eyes, and she stared deeply into them. They seemed different, not human.
    “I mean I can shift into an animal. I’m happy to show you. I’m a shifter like all of my family. We’re all cougars. For every generation as far back as we can remember. We have a pack in Nevada. My Grandfather is the Alpha, and we all work for companies owned by the family.”
    Delaney watched him as he talked, and he was stating himself very clearly. He wasn’t hesitating and either he had practiced and rehearsed this speech, or he was telling the truth.
    “So you turn into a…cat?”
    “When I want to. Would you like to see him?”
    Deciding on whether she was going to continue making out half naked in the woods with this man, Delaney decided a break was warranted. Grabbing her tank, she pulled it back over her head and stood in front of him.
    She didn’t say anything, just took a few steps back like it was a dare.
    He slowly stood and watched her for a moment to be sure she was truly asking to see his cougar. Will could see there was plenty of doubt in her eyes. He couldn’t blame her. It was fantastical to think such a thing could really exist in the world. He’d lived it his whole life, so he knew that the supernatural was just another part of nature. Humans had denied the truth for so long that people like him had become legend, stories told to little children.
    He pulled off his jacket and kicked off his boots. Stripping down, he was proud to show his mate his body. It belonged to her now, and he wanted her to find him as attractive as he did her. Her body was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen. When she’d freed her breasts, he knew without a doubt she was hands down perfect for him.
    Shucking down his boxer briefs, he stood up and gave her a full view of his body. Her eyes had been on him from the moment he stood. The heat of her attention felt like fingers on his skin. His cougar was purring at the mental touch of their mate.

Chapter Sixteen
    D elaney couldn’t help but stare at Will’s perfect physique. He was all lean, tan muscle, perfectly formed, and his cock looked like it had been carved from marble. Long, thick and pointing straight at her. Delaney had to resist the urge to look behind her to make sure he wasn’t pointing that at someone else.
    He wasn’t, that cock was all for her. It was rather flattering.
    She finally let her eyes travel up to his gaze and felt herself blush.
    “All yours, Monkey,” he said, his eyes smiling but there was no grin on his face.