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Artist: Kris Norris
Release
Date: July 29 2015
Pages
or Words: 11,000
Categories:
BDSM, Gay Fiction,
Paranormal, Romance
Cat
shifter Gage is an impossible bottom. No one has ever been able to
tame him, even if he wants them to. He’s willing to keep trying,
though, and when he finds out about the paranormal dating site Full
Moon Dating, he puts himself in their hands. He longs for someone who
will take him in hand and make him like it.
Hamish
is a bear shifter who plays too rough for most subs. Gage sounds like
just what he needs, so when Full Moon matches them up, he’s happy
to see how they get along. Can he convince Gage that he’s the one
to make the man toe the line?
Gage
checked his shirt before he headed into the sushi place. Boulder had
the best downtown, charming and upscale, but not formal. Not as
hipster as Austin or Portland, not as redneck as Denver or Dallas --
it managed to be clever and casual all at once.
He
totally approved.
Now
if he could only approve this date. A bear? Him?
Gage
was as far from low-key twink as they came. He was... challenging.
Doms dumped him regularly.
A
bear seemed so. Oh, he didn't know. Sweet. Goofy.
He
glanced around, wondering if he was early.
He
tended to be early.
He
liked being early.
There.
Back in the corner where the bar bent around. That has to be his
date. A huge man with shaggy, dark brown hair and a sunbaked face
with lots of smile lines.
He
looked a little like a lumberjack. It was adorable. So not his type,
but cute.
The
guy stood, smiling, making his oddly light brown eyes light up. "Hey!
You must be Gage. I'm Hamish." He pronounced it "hay-mish".
"Hamish.
Hello." He found a smile to offer back. How could you not like a
guy who grinned like that?
"Hi.
I hope you like sushi." Hamish waved to the seat next to him at
the bar.
"Fish,
salty peppery yumminess. What's not to like?"
"Right?"
Hamish was a big guy. Not fat at all, but he overflowed his personal
space into Gage's, warm and spicy smelling. At least he didn't stink.
That was always hard to get around. "Anyway, I got a little
hungry before you got here, so I got mussels and carpaccio. In case
you hate mussels."
"Mussels
are good. Tuna is my favorite. Cliché, but true."
"They
have an amazing hamachi appetizer." Food was a great social
equalizer.
"I'm
totally in, man." He nodded to the waiter, got his attention.
"Excellent.
So, what do you do?" Small talk. Again with the cute.
"I'm
a software designer. I create weird little things that people don't
know they need. You?"
"I
build shit. Right now I'm very into tiny houses. For other people. I
need square footage." He grinned.
"Tiny
houses? No shit?" Okay, that was cool. Not sexy, but better than
software designer.
"I've
done some work for local architects, and I love carving on a large
scale." Hamish held up his hands, scarred and callused.
He
took one in hand, hoping for a zing, for a flash of lightning, but
there wasn't one. Just a warmth. Sweet. Steady.
He
looked at the palm, fingers tracing over the calluses. "I
approve."
"Thanks."
Hamish grinned. "It's good work."
"That's
sort of how I feel about mine. It's computer work, but there's a lot
of design involved in it."
"Sounds
neat. Keeps you from getting bored, right?" Hamish flagged down
a waitress to order their hamachi.
"It
does." He ordered a couple of honey wheat beers.
"So..."
They
both said it at the same time, then laughed. "You go," Gage
said.
"I
was just wondering what made you go to Full Moon."
"I've
been searching for something and I'm beginning to think that I'm
doomed, that I'm too much to handle." And now he was sitting
with a big teddy bear. "What about you?"
"Oh,
you know. Everyone thinks I'm a big marshmallow. No one wants to play
rough." Hamish's cheeks went pink.
"No
one? That totally sucks." He was touching Hamish's wrist now.
"I
know! I mean, this is a cosmopolitan place, kinda. Boulder, I mean.
You'd think I could find someone not afraid to bait the bear."
Okay.
Okay, now there was a hint of promise there. "What are you
into?"
"All
sorts of things." Hamish met his gaze, golden eyes alight. "I
love bondage. Spanking. Some discipline, though not deep domestic or
anything. And I like rough stuff, when someone will fight me, make me
work for it."
Well,
now he got it, why they were put together. He was, at best, a pushy
little bottom. Still, Hamish seemed so... laid-back. Could there
really be an opportunity?
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