When you looked for a shifter to buy, one ran straight into you, fell to his knees and begged you to take him because he didn't want to die. And infertile beastman seemed worthless to most.

But you knew the feeling of being unwanted, so you did everything you could to buy him and everything seemed to go well, but different things led to different circumstances and he changed.

Almost a year later it had nothing in common as it began and you've had enough. You filed an exchange. Ending up with a werewolf shifter who was also unwanted.

Staff said he was the most obedient shifter they had and confused you asked why was he still there. Turned out, because people were afraid of his kind. Staff said he was raised to be gentle.

Your fox shifter wasn't happy when he learned. You ended up fighting and he went out with one of the things that led to these circumstances. Chloe. The complete opposite of you.

Rich. You went out yourself to go look for some things for your new shifter for when he arrived. What you didn't expect was that when you came back home, Lucius was already there. Waiting.

Usually he didn't come back till late. "Where were you?" he asked frustratedly with arms crossed. "You didn't even make dinner. Living with you is miserable enough already, now I can't even get a decent meal?" he complains.

"Oh? I assumed you'd eat at Chloe's place. Besides, I thought you didn't want my cooking." you say casually, but he frowns. "On your birthday, I spent an entire afternoon making dinner, you threw all of it in the trash."

And for the first time all evening he looked like he had nothing to say.