Page 57 of Tiger By the Tail


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“I don’t want you to go back.” I had to tell him, and I needed him to hear it from me.

“I’m so—” He interrupted himself. “I’m not going back. It’s been so much and going on for way too long. My brain knows that it wasn’t my fault, I guess, and I never…” His voice trailed off.

I took a wild guess at what he’d meant. “Had anyone you could talk to?”

“Yes.”

Using his pecs for leverage, I raised myself into a sitting position, taking his huge paws in mine and squeezing them. Roy kept his eyes fixed on our entwined fingers.

“We haven’t known each other for long, but I am listening, okay? Or I’ll be quiet with you. Whatever you need.” His eyes suddenly snapped up and heat flashed in them for a moment. I pressed on. “You are the victim here, Roy. She did that to you and it wasn’t your fault. And just because you have enough muscles and fur to handle getting hit better than a human doesn’t make it right or okay that she hurt you.”

He drew me in, cradling my entire head in his massive hands, and before I knew it, he was kissing me. A slow, tantalising kiss. But I couldn’t, not then. Not with his ex looming in the room with us.

“No, Roy, please—“

His hands dropped from my face if he’d burned himself.

Shit.

Chapter Twenty-Four

Roy

“Roy, I’m—” she began but I interrupted her.

“No, it’s okay. You probably don’t want, yeah, well, I know I’m not attractive for most human females,” I rambled, trying not to show her how much the rejection got to me. I’d always known it was stupid to get my fucking hopes up. She was just being nice to me, and there I was, making her feel like a jerk.

“What on earth are you talking about?” Kat stared at me, disbelief etched on her face. “Not attractive for human females?” she repeated weakly, and I heard something else in her voice. Embarrassment? “You know there’s a whole booming industry around FESP, feline species porn, right?” She winced on the last words.

“What?”

I’d never bothered to search for porn. Abbie hadn’t liked me watching it, insisting that it was as good as cheating and that I should find all my pleasure with her.

“Humanslikeyou. They enjoy getting off watching Felines have sex, and you, my sweet summer child, are no exception.”

“I was born in October,” I muttered, making her laugh. Kindly, even though she still seemed flustered. “Are you watching this stuff?” I asked, drawing in my eyebrows.

She blushed fiercely then awkwardly clambered off my lap and turned away abruptly to hide it. “I’m not discussing my porn preferences with you, tiger boy, and besides,” she muttered more to herself, putting her mug under the machine. “I need a shitload of coffee—no, make that gin—for this conversation.”

Reflexively, I suppressed my reaction to her comment, but it registered with me that she wasn’t mad and wouldn’t have screamed or hit me if I laughed at her expense.

So… she has porn preferences?

I was dying to hear them.

I bet she watches FESP. What a stupid name, really. Does she touch herself to videos of people like me fucking?

The mere thought made my cock fill with blood.

Kat retired to her room, saying she needed a bit of time to recharge before we could chill and watch something together. We’d gotten hooked on an amazing Japanese anime series the other day. I went to my room, too, where I dug out my headphones and paired them with my laptop. Thesearch I did for FESP came back with nearly two million results.

Okay, that is unexpected.

I added the word ‘tiger’ and pressed the button again only to be faced with roughly six hundred thousand results.

Holy shit.

The top hit was a site called PeenHub.

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