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were worth something?’
    Cameron nodded. ‘My grandmother. She saved me more than once from losing my shit.’ He smiled.
    Trace barked out a laugh. ‘Well, that was Anthony for me. He understood me. He wasn’t a wolf or a shifter. He wasn’t anything, he said – but he was. He was an energy worker. He could manipulate your energy. Clear you. Make you go from bogged down to light as a feather. It was a real gift.’
    Cameron nodded, but kept his mouth shut. He needed to listen here. He’d opened the door; he had to witness all that walked through.
    Trace ran a slightly shaking hand through his hair. ‘He was trying to heal me when I attacked him. I thought he was trying to hurt me. No one was there. My parents were out of my life. No other shifter was near to warn him or to help me. It was me and him and I …’ He pushed his back to the wall, his fingers curling to the textured plaster. ‘I killed him.’ He cocked his head, closed his eyes. ‘And why am I telling you this?’
    Cameron shrugged. ‘Because I want to know. And Trace … you didn’t know.’
    ‘Don’t make excuses for what I did. For me.’
    ‘But it wasn’t your fault.’
    Trace’s voice came down to a growl. In that expulsion of sound Cam could hear the animal in him very clearly. ‘Don’t forgive me my sin. It’s not your fucking place.’
    ‘I know. But it’s how I feel. Just me. Doesn’t matter at all to you, but it’s what I think,’ Cameron said. ‘It needed to be said.’
    For the second time, Trace looked like he wanted to hit him and Cameron almost wished he would. ‘I’m leaving now. Sorry again.’
    ‘Please don’t,’ Cameron said swiftly. His impulse, no matter how insane or ill-conceived, was to protect and soothe this man. There was a connection here. Maybe it was simply that he wasn’t afraid of killing Trace, but he felt that wasn’t the answer. That was a very small sliver of a very big whole. He was drawn to Trace and he wanted to help.
    ‘Look, you’re a nice guy, but I’m a really fucking bad idea. Especially for nice guys.’
    ‘Please. Stay.’ Cameron did the only thing he could think of. He followed his heart. He dropped to his knees and reached for the wolf.

Chapter Nine
    ‘Get up,’ Trace growled.
    Not the response that Cam had been hoping for. He shuffled forward on his knees but Trace made no move to get closer. He didn’t withdraw but he didn’t exactly make it easy.
    ‘Get up!’ he roared at Cam.
    ‘No!’ Cameron yelled. When Trace blinked at him, startled, he said, ‘See, I can yell too. And it doesn’t change the fact that this is what I want to do. I really want to do it. And I want you to want me.’
    Trace almost smiled but Cameron watched him push the instinct down. ‘You think I don’t want a blowjob from a pretty electric boy? Do you think I’m insane?’
    ‘A little.’
    He did laugh then, and Cameron felt a burst of joy in his chest. ‘Touché. The point is, I don’t want your fucking pity.’
    ‘I didn’t pity you out in the woods. I wanted you then. I don’t pity you now. I feel bad. I’m sorry I poked. But I do not, under any circumstance, consider my attraction to you pity.’
    ‘You’re very wordy.’ Trace sighed.
    ‘There is a way you could shut me up.’
    ‘Do tell.’ Those intense purple eyes travelled over him, curious.
    ‘I couldn’t talk if my mouth was full.’
    Animal shine flared in Trace’s eyes and, this time, when he growled, the hair on Cameron’s arms stood up and tingled. His cock was so hard it was damn near painful. Would Trace let him? He still wasn’t sure.
    Until he unzipped his work pants.
    ‘Aren’t you afraid of me?’ Trace asked, taking one big step forward. Not close enough for Cam to actually get to him, but close enough that he could feel the heat baking off the shifter.
    ‘A little,’ Cameron said, scooting closer on his knees.
    ‘Good,’ Trace said, closing the gap. He threaded his thick fingers in Cameron’s