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She blinked. “You were already a shifter the last time we had sex? That’s why your dick was so huge.”
The bum had the nerve to look pleased with himself. Sakura stared him down, and he shrugged then stood up. He walked into the bathroom, but she followed him. He wasn’t getting away. While he stood in front of the mirror wetting a washcloth, she took in his form. The scar on his lower belly was still there, puckered and darker than the rest of his skin. She remembered him telling her when he was seventeen another boy mistook him for someone else, a target he had to take out as initiation into a gang. Adam had fought for his life but still ended up hurt. While he recovered in the hospital, his aunt hadn’t come to see him once. She’d been too busy with her own life. Adam had vowed then to get out of Miami, and he had worked several jobs to do so. He visited infrequently.
Sakura moved next to him and smoothed fingertips over the roughened skin. “Becoming a shifter doesn’t fix this.”
His amused gaze met hers in the mirror. “You have a problem with how my body looks, mami?”
“Yeah, right.”
His muscles were harder, firmer. For that matter, so were hers. Not like a man’s, of course, but she did have greater strength, and it blew her mind. There was also the fear of what the future would hold cut off from her family and disgust that something not human crawled around inside her.
“Adam, what are you?” she asked. He didn’t answer right away.
“Tell me what you think of yourself.”
Her eyebrows rose. “What do you mean?”
“Sakura, you don’t like depending on anyone, but there was always the security of your family behind you. When they learn what you are, all that will change.”
“It doesn’t have to. They can’t smell shifters, you know.”
“So you’ll go on killing your own kind?”
“They’re not my kind!”
He said nothing, and she sighed. His arms came around her, and he guided her back to the bedroom. They lay in the bed together, Sakura snuggled to his side. She breathed in his scent. Definitely wild, not a fox, and if she had to guess not a small animal either. Adam would die before he let someone turn him in something like a rabbit. At the thought she almost laughed, but a lump rose in her throat.
“I don’t know what I think or feel. I’m a little?
?” The word scared stuck and refused to leave her mouth. “I’ll handle it.”
Adam’s lips quirked. “Don’t be scared. Even if they reject you or try to hunt you when they find out, you know I’ll be there to fight for you.”
“You’ll always be my protector, huh?”
“It’s not a job for me.”
“About that ‘no man can touch you’ stuff. It sounded kind of dangerous.”
He raised his hands and tucked them behind his head. Sakura stared at him. She didn’t want to miss anything he might be hiding, because it was for sure Adam hadn’t told her everything yet. He stalled about admitting the type of animal he shifted into, and that worried her.
“I’ll put it simply for you,” he said, looking up at the ceiling, but she caught the dangerous glint in his gaze. “I will rip off the head of any man who touches you, whether you let him or not.”
“That’s violent even for you.”
“It’s not me.”
She sat up and wrinkled her nose at him. “What’s that mean?”
“Did you notice a certain trait to the people who had you?”
“Oh, you mean like sly, sneaky, cunning.” She rolled her eyes. “I can go on.”
He nodded. “Si, like that.”
“So the beast in you is a killer?”
“Never!” He sat forward and drew her into his arms to stroke her back. Sakura submitted to a few kisses but then pulled away. She wanted nothing to interfere with his confession. Adam let her go with reluctance. “We were taught the shifters have mates, another person who is meant for them, who are sealed to them, in a sense, for life.”
