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shit was cold!
    “What’s wrong?” Sage asked as he stormed past the Dumpster to where William was dancing around the back porch, trying his best to make the ice cubes slide past his balls. Not one of my more brilliant plans.
    “Nothing. I just stubbed my toe,” he replied as he gritted his teeth, making himself stand in place and live through the brutality of frozen nuts.
    Sage’s brows pulled together as he looked at William as if trying to figure him out before turning around and walking away. As soon as Sage was out of sight, William reached in his pants and grabbed the Sage’s Mystery
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    ice, tossing it into the yard. “Doofus,” he muttered to himself. But hey, it did the job. His cock was finally lying limp and to the left.
    William grabbed the plates, walking back over to the fire and taking a seat as far away from Sage as possible without looking too obvious. Sage held out a hand and William gave him the plates. He saw that Sage had set the pot of beans on the fire and they were bubbling as the steam wafted off of them.
    “Here you go,” Sage said as he handed a full plate over to William. He was so damn hungry that he didn’t know where to begin.
    It all looked good.
    “You might want to slow down,” Sage said a moment later.
    William lowered his plastic fork. Yeah, he’d been scarfing the food down, but he couldn’t help it. For a winged meal, it was damn good.
    “You chew any faster, and I’ll have to feed you something else.”
    William coughed, damn near choking at Sage’s promise.

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    Lynn Hagen

Chapter Five
    Sage pushed his hands into his front pockets, leaned against the wall, and watched as William slept.
    His feelings were growing stronger for William, no matter how much he fought against it. He watched as William turned over, pulled the blanket over his shoulder, while using one of Sage’s duffel bags as a pillow.
    It scared him to think that he was seriously considering converting William and claiming him. How had things changed so much over the past couple of days? William hadn’t thrown himself at Sage like a lot of she-wolves had done in his birth pack. He ran around here half the time like the Energizer Bunny, tripping over things and making a bigger mess than when they started out.
    And that turned him on?
    Sage needed his head examined.
    When the hell did incompetence become sexy? Sage wasn’t sure, but if it had, then William was the sexiest man on the planet. He smiled at that. The guy didn’t know a number-two bit from a screw, but he did whatever it took to get the job done.
    Sage realized just then that he admired William. He was everything opposite of Sage, and that actually turned him on.
    Shrink, here I come.
    “Is something wrong?”
    Sage pushed away from the wall, shaking his head as he saw William’s bright green eyes sparkling in the moonlight spilling into the room. He had tempted fate many times by flirting with William over the past couple of days, but the man never flirted back. Sage Sage’s Mystery
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    wasn’t sure about the reason why, so he kept his lust in check, never allowing himself to touch William.
    But the change was tomorrow night, and keeping his hands to himself was getting harder. He wanted to go lie down and curl around William. Nuzzle him until they both fell asleep.
    Ah hell, who was he kidding? Sage wanted to fuck the man until the house fell down around them. They could cuddle afterward. His cock was so hard that he knew his brain had no blood circulating in it.
    That was why he stood there now. If he lay down, he wasn’t sure he could control himself. His skin was tight, itchy, and he was hornier than a motherfucker. The change always did that to his libido. It was nature’s way of making him hunt for a mate.
    “No, go back to sleep.”
    He patted himself on the back for not taking his anger and aggression out on William over the past few days, even though his attitude was getting worse. If anyone else wandered this way, Sage