CatOutoftheBag by Tatiana Caldwell Read Free Book Online

to, so that you wouldn’t be alone when
you shifted for the first time, but apparently I was a little late. I’m sorry.”
    Holding the blanket up by her armpits, she picked up a pair
of blue lace panties and bent forward, sliding them over her feet and up her
legs.
    “You might not want to bother with getting dressed,” he
said. “The first few transformations are involuntary, until you learn to
control it. Would hate to see you ruin more of your clothes.”
    “So what am I supposed to do, just hang out around here
naked?”
    “Only until you master shifting. No one here would care, you
know. In case you haven’t noticed, everyone out there is naked right now.”
    She glared at him. “I am not about to sit around all
day buck-ass naked under a dirty blanket.”
    Nathan laughed heartily at this, his eyes gleaming with
play. “Okay, the truth is, there’s a dress hanging up in the wardrobe with
snaps all the way down on both sides, especially made for transforming in. So
the worst you’d have to do is go commando. Unless you’d rather go naked,
which would be fine with me.”
    She scoffed and dropped her undies back into the bag before
heading to the wardrobe again. “I don’t understand. How could this have
happened to me? To you? All of you?”
    “Nothing happened ,so to speak, as far as we
know. It’s just who—or what—we are.”
    “But why us? What do we have in common?”
    “The only thing the majority of us have in common is that we
were born under the zodiac sign Leo. But even then, there are some exceptions.
Like you, for instance.”
    Sofia did the math in her head. She was born two weeks
prematurely, on July fourteenth. She was supposed to be born a Leo although she
was actually a Cancer. Fascinating.
    “And you already knew I was one when we were on the plane?”
    He shook his head. “No. I suspected, but I wasn’t completely
sure. Even before I, um, touched you, you slightly had the scent. It got
stronger after your orgasm, but I’d thought I was imagining it. At the time,
you had me rather…distracted.” He licked his lips and Sofia felt a little
flutter in her tummy at the mention of their sky-high adventure. “All I knew at
that time was that you were beautiful, and that I was instantly drawn to you.”
    Growing warm all over, she smiled softly and brushed her
hair back. She spotted the brown cotton dress in the closet that he spoke of.
It was short-sleeved and would stop above her knees. It wasn’t exactly
glamorous and it would be a little chilly if she went outdoors in it, but it
would be better than going naked or risking destroying more clothes. She
removed it from the hanger. “So why did Justin attack me?”
    “I guess by the time you came to the mountain to meet me,
you’d already been triggered and you were fully on . In your current
state you’re like a living Perfume De Sex for a Tom. Justin got a whiff and
somehow got the idea you were intentionally enticing him, and that you liked it
rough.”
    “A ‘Tom’?”
    “It’s just a term for an adult male Werecat who’s ready for
sex.”
    She smacked her lips. “That’s all it takes for one of you to
decide to sleep with someone? You like how they smell?”
    Nathan laughed. “Yes, for some of us, some of the time.” He
sat upright and locked his eyes dead-on with hers. “But the list of reasons why I want to sleep with you is far longer than that.”
    Sofia lowered her gaze from his piercing green eyes and
found herself ogling his defined chest. His pectorals were lightly dusted with
fine, dark hair, and a narrow trail traced the center of his torso from the top
all the way down past his loosely fitting pants. Every fiber of her being
wanted to rip off those pants, lose her blanket and crush her breasts against
that chest while she straddled him.
    But what was she thinking? It was crazy to want him, crazy
to be wanting anything sexual right now. He was a freaking Werecat, and
apparently she either really was one