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wolf form.”
    “Yeah, that makes sense. Canine eyes and human eyes are different.” Chay’s head dipped toward his, those brown eyes still zeroed in on his lips.
    Keaton raised up on tiptoe, waiting for those sensual lips. A car horn honked, jerking him out of his daze. They were outside. Geez. This man made him lose his head. Chay may not care what people thought of him, but Keaton did. He did not want Chay to end up being an outcast. He stepped back.
    Chay blinked and met his gaze. “Spend the weekend at my house.”
    Whoa. He should refuse, he knew he should, but he didn’t want to. He bit his bottom lip.
    “You want to. I can see it in your eyes. Geez, Bit, you’re as hard as I am, I can see it, smell it. Just agree.” He dragged his thumb over Keaton’s bottom lip, freeing it from his teeth.
    Chay swore he knew what he was getting into. “I want to. But…”
    “But what? You’re not still caught up in the whole gay/not gay thing, are you?”
    Not so much, but he feared Chay being ostracized for loving him. Okay, in the back of his mind there was the fear that Chay would wake up one day and decide he didn’t want him anymore. “I dated this guy in college. He was straight, well he claimed to be anyway. He said it was just me, something about me.” He shrugged. “I don’t know. He was a wolf too. Even though I didn’t feel anything, I tried to convince myself he was my mate and that’s why he was so drawn to me. After meeting you, I know it was a line of crap. When his friends found out he was seeing me, he tried to deny I was his boyfriend. I found out later that he’d never even broken up with his girlfriend. I was some sort of experiment or some sort of sexual exploration for him. I got tired of it.”
    Chay kissed him right there out in public, in front of his apartment where anyone could see. It was a soft, gentle kiss, tender.
    Keaton sighed into Chay’s open mouth. He should pull back…for Chay’s sake, but it was too nice. His cock throbbed, getting more and more uncomfortable. He quickly decided to pull back for his own sake.
    Chay let him. “I’m not like that, Bit. I’m sorry you got hurt, but I’m here for the long haul. You’re stuck with me. This isn’t some sort of sexual identity crisis for me. You are my mate. Mine. You belong to me. And quite frankly, even if you didn’t, I think I’d want you.”
    Whoa. Keaton felt like the ground moved out from underneath him. He was speechless, but it was a good speechless. He knew Chay told the truth. It was still hard to believe, but he did believe it. Keaton grinned.
    Chay grinned back. “Does that mean you’ll spend the weekend with me?”
    He nodded. “Yeah, I will. Let me get some clothes and Pita’s bowls and dog food. We can go meet your pack leader, and I’m all yours until Sunday night.”
    “I like the sound of that. But you don’t need to get anything for Pita. I bought him stuff for my house too.” Oh boy. That smacked of commitment.
    Keaton launched himself at Chay, forcing the man to catch him. He kissed Chay breathless. He didn’t even realize Chay held him off the ground until Chay set him on his feet and pulled back.
    Chay started laughing and glanced at his feet.
    Keaton heard the growling and saw the slight sway Chay made and looked down.
    Pita had a hold of Chay’s scrub pants again, growling and shaking his head. The pup’s tail was going ninety to nothing.
     
     
    * * *
     
    When they drove up to John Carter’s house, the place was surrounded by cars. It looked like a pack meeting. That was odd. Chay racked his brain trying to recall a reason the whole pack would be here, but couldn’t think of any.
    “Hey, isn’t that your dad?” Bit started waving to someone.
    Sure enough, it was his dad, standing out in the yard with a couple other pack members. His father waved at them. “Yeah.” Chay waved back and parked his truck by the curb several yards from the pack leader’s house.
    “Uh,