Chapter 11Somehow feeling like the lamb to the slaughter as Ezekiel playful offer tried to take root Brandon shook his head. “No. Not on your life.”“No? Why not?” Ezekiels tone took on a slightly goading overture. “You can’t be afraid to spar with me are you? You seem to know how to handle yourself in a fight.....”Something about the way that he said this sounded like a clear challenge. And damn him....but Brando had never been able to turn away from a challenge. “I do know how to handle myself!” He replied sharply.Knowing that he had won part of the battle Ezekiel smiled, like a Cheshire cat. “Well then...” HE intoned putting out his hands to his sides, palms up. “Spar with me...”“Are you serious? You really want to do this?” Brandon sighed.“Well were out here for the rest of the afternoon.” Ezekiel said back dropping his hands and motioning to the sun that wasn’t even halfway past the wide clear sky. “And it will be a good way to pass the time...”“And I guess that’s important

Chapter 13“The leopard made YOU Shift?” Brandon asked him, glancing down at Ezekiel’s hands. Somehow he strangled the growing need to reach out and un-ball the hard fist that Ezekiel had formed. The same need that had urged him to reach out and pet a giant snarling Leopard, instead of run.But a moment later Ezekiel had dropped the fist with a curse. “Damnit!” Ezekiel growled in sudden and visceral agitation. He reached out, possibly intending to touch Brandon’s cheek, but at the last moment a look of guilt flickered across his face and he pulled back. “Did he hurt you...?” Ezekiel asked him softly, looking Brandon over for injuries as he spoke. “Our strength....our anger....I can’t control them when I’m Shifted.”Hoping to sooth Ezekiel’s obvious anxiety Brandon shrugged both of his shoulders and shook his head. “No I’m fine.” He reported, then feeling a small smile growing on his face he said. “When he first appeared he did sort of swipe and snap at me. But then he just sat on top

Chapter 15That night, after a slow afternoon of quiet patrolling alone, Ezekiel retired to his room.Snarling and hissing he prowled in the confines of his room, eventually forced to admit to himself that he was in fact avoiding dinner, his family....and the one man that was making him feel just a little bit insane. Not to mention tense, and pent up, and on edge.Ezekiel didn’t want to be around his family feeling the way he felt. He didn’t want to be around Lander thinking what he was thinking. He didn’t want to be near Brandon with the heat of his body only a few hours forgotten.So, not bothering to remove his clothing and feeling bone tired, Ezekiel crawled into his sheets, punched a few pillows into shape beneath him....and promptly collapsed in exhaustion.IT was sometime later before he began to stir. He moaned, tossed in his sheets and bit his lip in his sleep.In his mind he felt the electricity running down his spine, gathering in his gut, tightening his balls, emanating fr

Chapter 17Who are you to make me feel so good?Who are we to tell ourselves that we’re misunderstood?Were always falling on each other like were both lost in in the dark.I don’t think you know me much at all, all, ALL!-Ellie Goulding (This Love)Ezekiel caught him off guard with his fire. A kiss so sweet that it hurt and then so deep, that it had Brandon panting for air. And when Brandon made the mistake of letting his mouth drift open the tip of Ezekiels tongue flicked across his parted lips, then pooled inside his mouth. Brandon moaned and pulled him closer, his senses zeroing on Ezekiels elusive taste before, Ezekiel kissed him again.Oh GOD! The dreams didn’t compare! They were pale imitations to how this mans body felt fitted against his own...Brandon gasped as Ezekiels thigh slipped between his legs, pressing against the hardening behind Brandon’s zipper. The shaft growing thick and pulsing hard in moments. A flare of new lust ran down his back as Brandon rocked against the

Chapter 19After a release.....came the true horror. Because once the Flame was diminshed....it had to be refilled. Or the consequences would be dire.“OH GOD!!” Brandon cried into his chest as his awareness expanded painfully all around him. It expanded so sharply and so fast that his temples throbbed.Suddenly a nausea over took him, stumbling like a drunk Brandon ran to the bath room and vomited into the toilet. His entire body retching so violently that a sob of pain was pulled out of his throat. With his head over the bowl....Brandon was hit with a second bout of nausea as his entire body began to harden.In the depths of his awareness.....life skittered across his senses tantalizing him...calling him. A sharp ache stabbed him in the stomach. An ache he didn’t want to acknowledge.Brandon sobbed and wanted to escape, but nothing would help him now....not even thoughts of Ezekiel....because all he heard were Ezekiels frustrated questions.What are you hiding? Why do you want to le