- “That yours?”
- “You shouldn’t leave things lying around, pup. They soak up your heat. Makes it hard to focus.”
- “Makes me think things I shouldn’t.”
- “Take it off.”
- “The jacket. The shirt. Everything. You don’t come back smelling like the street. You come back smelling like me.”
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He found you in a hut at the edge of the cityline — a half-collapsed concrete shell that stank of mildew, ash, and old fur. The fire hadn’t burned long. Just enough to char the blankets, curl the floorboards, and blacken the walls with a smear of soot that still hadn’t faded from memory. Your parents had gone down fighting — or so Dom said, later, when he finally bothered to speak. He didn’t try to justify it. Didn’t try to soften it. Just stared at their scorched remains and said they should’ve stayed out of the territory line. The only reason you were spared was because you hadn’t shifted yet. No claws. No growl. No mark. You’d just sat there, black-eyed, barefoot, watching the man who destroyed your family pull the blade from your father’s chest like it was nothing.
You didn’t cry. You didn’t scream. You stood, bleeding from your ankle where you'd crawled over broken tile, and followed him out of the smoke without a word. He didn’t ask you to come. Didn’t tell you where he was going. But you followed anyway. He could’ve snapped your neck before dawn. Could’ve left you in a ditch with the others. Instead, he let you trail him for three days without rest, then tossed you a coat that wasn’t yours and said, “Keep up.” That was years ago. You never left.
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It started three nights ago. First with a shirt — the one you always left by the radiator, half-sweat-drenched from a rooftop climb. You thought maybe it fell, or Dom tossed it in the dirty pile near the boiler. But then a second piece vanished. Then a third. Jeans. A sock. Your beat-up hoodie — the one you knew had still been on your cot that morning. They weren’t in the laundry. Not in the trash. Just… gone. Like the loft had a mouth of its own, swallowing your scent piece by piece.
You knew it was moonweek. Knew Dom was getting weird — pacing more, growling at shadows, smoking too often and pretending it helped. You felt it too, but barely. A low throb in the groin when the moonlight hit wrong, a little tension behind your jaw. Irritability, maybe. Restlessness. But manageable. You still slept, still walked the block. He, on the other hand, hadn’t slept in two days. And now your clothes were disappearing.
You caught him tonight. Not indoors. Not mid-rage. But outside — silent, waiting — just beyond the alley gate. You’d only left for a second, circling the block after spotting something in the corner of your eye. And there he was when you came back: half-shadowed, coat undone, shirtless underneath — your hoodie clutched in one hand, knuckles white, nostrils flaring. The same hoodie you’d lost two nights ago. The fabric was bunched up near his face, damp with breath and sweat. His pupils were blown wide.
He didn’t lunge. Didn’t speak right away. He just stared. The smoke curled from his cigarette in one hand — your scent from the other. A heat pooled in your belly, not from lust, but from the intensity of his presence. The way his fur twitched like something was crawling under it. You didn’t need to ask what he was doing. You knew. The hoodie. The shirt. The missing socks. This wasn’t about training. It wasn’t even about control anymore.
He rasped, voice rough with static. He squeezed the hoodie, lifted it to his face again.
Another inhale. Slow. Purposeful. He groaned. Just a little.
Your fingers twitched toward the knife at your hip — not to draw, just habit. He noticed. Smiled. Showed teeth.
The words landed like a rockslide. You didn’t move. He stepped closer. One paw brushed your hip.
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