Kim had come into Samsaville out of the snowcapped mountains because of a visit from Angela. “Come back to Samsaville with me and you can find a mate,” Angela had said to her when Angela discovered the snow leopard’s parents had died and she was wandering around searching for food.
“You can stay with me and Nero.”
“You know I don’t like Nero. He’s a werewolf and we don’t get along,” Kim said remembering an encounter with him when she was just a cub.
She had attacked him not knowing he was a friend of Angela’s. He had gone looking for Angela and ran across Kim. Nero tried to chase her away, but she waited for him and jumped on him from a tree and scarred him across his face and back before Angela stopped Nero from killing her, or before Kim snatched out Nero’s eyes.
Since then they had very little to say to each other, but for Angela’s sake, Nero took her in and gave her a job. But he didn’t want her at their cabin and she didn’t want to be there.
So she pitched a tent behind the bar to open it up early for the men working different shifts in Samsaville, where they could get a drink or food before they went to work on the new buildings Harper had commissioned to be built in Samsaville.
“I know you don’t care for Nero, but he’s different now. I wouldn’t have invited you here if he wasn’t and you need a place to find food and the humans here aren’t bad either. In your area there aren’t any snow-leopard shifters. The humans and shifters have respect for each other in Samsaville. They have laws and rules to follow. Harper Samsa drew up the laws himself and if any one breaks them, they can’t live in Samsaville.
Kim couldn’t help but think about that day which brought her here and when she first glanced up and saw Liam. Tall and lean and sure of himself. He was what she was looking for if she didn’t have someone of her same species.
She turned to him before she walked into the tent.
“I’ve never met anyone like you,” Liam said. He placed his hands to her small delicate face as he let her step into the tent first. Lowering his head he walked behind her.
Bending down he helped her undress in a small tent outside of the Rusty Nail in the middle of a large forest.
She slipped out of her black and white body suit with a long tail. She tossed her fake cat ears to the side. Liam’s eyes opened wide and his jaw dropped. His raised eyebrows smoothed and he took a deep breath wondering how he got so lucky.
Liam too tall to stand in the tent slid down and sat on her rather large cot. She sat near him nude. He had never seen anyone that comfortable without clothes. All the women he had seen in his practice hid behind a sheet and even then their bodies were tense. Maybe it was his age he thought.
Maybe she was comfortable with him and they both knew why he had followed her to the tent—he desired her and he expected to make love to her and she wanted him also.
“My name is Liam,” he said his eyes raking her from her hair down to her small frame. Her hair long and blond almost white. Her mouth small and pursed round.
“I know your name is Liam because you’ve told me over and over.”
“But you never said your name.”
“Kim,” she purred and eased her body up against his. His hands down to the side, he wasn’t sure what he should do with them. She reached for them and placed one over her breasts. He touched them as a doctor would. No amount of feeling. She turned to him.
“Don’t you want to feel me?” She placed her hands over his resting on her breasts. His hands sent a wave of desire as her body craved his hands.
“Of course I do,” Liam said with his hands holding firmly on her breasts. Her nipples extending with a shiver of pleasure coursing through Liam’s body. His breathing intensified.
“Do you know what I am?” She said in a low voice as she opened his shirt.
“Yes. But don’t tell me you’re under age?” Liam said with a huff of disappointment.
“No. I’m not. I’m a full grown snow leopard.”
“But you’re not a snow leopard. You’re a human. A woman,” he said as Kim leaned and bit his ear then kissing his neck and face as she opened his shirt. She raked her sharp claws over and down his chest.
“I was afraid this would happen.” She turned away to find her clothes. “Just when I’m attracted to a human he doesn’t know what I am. You will have to leave.”
“But why. I like you a lot.”
“I like you too,” Kim said as Liam pulled her to him and sat her on his lap. She felt the throb of his manhood beating as if it was his pulse. He wanted her. But she needed more than that. She didn’t want to be just another shifter for a human looking for a rough night and a good fuck. She wanted to be his mate, and she would save herself until she met the right human or shifter.
She may have been the last of her kind in this area and she would be protective of whom she select to be her mate. She thought she had found the most prosperous of men. One that could protect her and her cubs once she became pregnant.
“I can’t be with you tonight because you’re a human.” He opened his eyes wide. “A human who knows little about a shifter’s ways.”
Liam trying to remember what Emily said to him. “I know that you shift and your human form isn’t fixed. You can walk on all fours if you’re excited or if you are threatened. You will have pups instead of babies.”
“Just as I thought,” she said, “When I get pregnant, I will have cubs not pups.”
“I should have known that,” Liam said.
“Yes, you should. Now it’s time for you to leave. I have to go back to work and get up early to hunt my food.”
“I knew that. I know you hunt your food but with me, you don’t have to do that.”
“It’s what I do. I hunt my food. I don’t need you to feed me.” Kim turned away from Liam. He liked her independent spirit. He liked her and he had to find some way to keep her.
“If you give me a chance to learn about you and your lifestyle I’m sure you will find me suitable for you. You fascinate me. I can’t let you get away from me.”
It was then Liam knew that he would do anything to have her. Yet he didn’t completely believe her because he hadn’t seen anyone become a shifter. He tried to believe, but deep down it didn’t make any sense to him. After all he was a doctor and a scientist. Things like werewolves and shifters didn’t exist in his world.
But Liam was willing to agree to anything to make love to the little snow leopard.
“I followed my cousin Angela here because she said this would be a haven for shifters and whoever was here, human or shifter, would know who we are and not judge us.”
“I don’t judge you. You’re a beautiful girl, I mean shifter.” Kim needed the comfort of his body. She had never felt the caress of a male human or shifter before and she craved that feeling. It could have something to do with the full moon or her need to mate. But was he the right one? She needed to be sure.
His touch warm as he placed his hand on her hair and leaned in to kiss her. She relented and kissed him. He lay back on the folding bed and brought her small body to lay on top of his. He held her and looked into her blue eyes. Her pale skin in contrast to his.
She met his body and she kissed a young man who had very few kisses in his young life. The feeling for both more erotic than Liam could ever describe. The kiss roused his passion and his manhood. He couldn’t control his outcry and he moaned into her mouth. She bit his lips and there was a surge of pure need and hunger spiraling through him.
There was no controlling what he felt for her.
The intense warmth surged through him as she sucked his tongue and their tongues mingled together. Lying on him she rocked her lower body as the kisses became more intense. She purred in his ear as she coxed him easing up until his mouth touched her nipples.
Liam moaned with raw emotion and she gyrated over his manhood until he couldn’t take it any longer. He positioned her on her back with one hand and with the other he reached for his penis and with one jerk and jolt he entered her and let out a breath and grunt.
The intensity of the entry into her warm body shocked her and long nails spiked and she grabbed his back and dug her nails across and down his back in a playful erotic gesture. She bit his lip as he moaned with the heat of pain and the pleasure of surprise.
His body reacted in the most surreal way. His body was no longer his and he was drifting inside her as he reached his orgasm. She gave a large meow in his ear as she reached hers.
When she grasped the height of her satisfaction she hissed, “I belong to you. I have mated with you and soon I will be pregnant. She lay in his arms on the cot and he held her close not sure what she meant, but willing to stay long enough to understand and learn.
He woke the next morning curled up with his snow leopard and she was indeed pregnant but Liam didn’t know that yet.