Where Foxes Hunt with Wolves - K.A. Merikan Page 0,58
the best joke ever.
It had been so damn cute. This, however, was not. The touch sent a sizzle up Yev’s leg and made his balls tingle as if he’d been touched there. “I can smell it when human men want me.”
And he could smell it on Radek too. He needed to put a stop to the flirting, but it felt so damn good.
Radek’s scent sharpened, and he exhaled after swallowing another giant mouthful. It brought yet more of Yev’s attention to the mouth that had sucked him in so eagerly. “You know I’m not wearing underwear, right?”
Yev choked on the warm air and didn’t take in another forkful of the delicious scrambled eggs. He shouldn’t. He should not. “I’m aware,” he said in the end, hoping his apparent disinterest would send the right message without having to go into detail. He so damn didn’t want to share any details.
He pushed the food into his mouth and started chewing.
He should have been grateful when Radek’s foot disappeared but found himself missing its warmth instead.
“Was I really that bad?” Radek grumbled. “I thought I did a pretty good job at sucking you. And if I wasn’t, you could have just given me pointers.”
“Goddamn it,” Yev huffed and hit the handle of the fork against the table. “I’m done with guys, okay? Done. My pack is giving me a chance, and I’ll take it!”
Radek hunched his shoulders. “Oh. I'm sorry. Are they homophobic?”
Yev shrugged, pinning his gaze to the plate with a faded folklore trim at the edges. The eggs, while buttery and delicious, no longer held the same appeal as moments before. “If I don’t stop, I won’t be allowed back. That’s all.”
“I get it. Sorry, I didn’t mean to tease. I never came out to my dad, but he wouldn’t have liked it either.”
Yev exhaled and moved his shoulders to relax them as he continued eating. “But you have others who understand you. A whole world of them. I only have the pack, so… I need to do this,” he said, trying to forget the freckled legs under the table.
Radek wanted him. They could fuck a few times before Yev returned home, but maybe it was high time to stop giving himself leeway. This would be his life once he moved back, as angry and frustrated as it made him.
Radek set aside the fork when he was done eating, and gave Yev a longing gaze that made him itch with need. “Okay. I just… All this time that I was Ember, I kinda imagined when I turned back, it would be this huge tah-dah! moment and we’d go at it like bunnies for like a week. Stupid, I know.”
Yev exhaled, once again wishing his life weren’t so damn complicated. “You’re very pretty. Both as a fox and a man, but it is what it is,” he said with a shrug. He was surprised Radek didn’t flirt and prod more. A part of him was happy the boy did respect him enough to stop, but a part he should be ashamed of was oh-so-disappointed.
“Thank you for saving my life,” Radek said.
Yev shrugged, though his chest tightened when he remembered the way Ember curled up against him in bed each night. He would miss the company. “I couldn’t let you die. It was the decent thing to do.”
“I don’t like… hate wolves on principle. It’s just that my dad was killed by them, and I lost it that night we met. I’m sorry for being a shit.”
Yev was positive old Nowak’s death had nothing to do with wolves, but there was no point in opening old wounds. “It’s all right. Just try to be good from now on,” Yev said and got up, itching to stroke Radek’s hair and kiss the side of his head. But he wouldn’t do that, because this growing attachment made no sense.
“If I am, can I stay a few days more?” Radek gave a little smile.
Yev’s nostrils flared, and he rubbed his forehead, knowing this was a lost battle. He would not force Radek out into the world when he was so vulnerable and could potentially shift again. He needed to give this issue… a few more days.
“Okay, but come sundown, you’ll lock yourself in the bedroom. Don’t come out until dawn, and use something to mask your scent. Incense? Those herbs the witch had given us? I'll be back before it gets dark, but don’t greet me or look out the window to see me when I