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Like Bea didn’t just watch two humans having extremely explicit sex before they shifted into her pets.
Bea’s face goes from shocked to pale. Her hand moves from her mouth to her chest, clutching at her sweater. Her eyes go wide, her mouth opens like she’s trying to speak but can’t get the words out.
“Meow?” Tabitha tries again, weaker this time.
Bea’s knees buckle.
She crumples to the floor like a marionette with cut strings, her hand still pressed to her chest, her breathing coming in short, sharp gasps.
‘Oh, fuck,’Tabitha’s mental voice is pure panic.‘Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck?—’
‘BEA!’I think-scream at both of them, already shifting back to human form and lunging toward the elderly woman collapsed in her doorway. “Call an ambulance! NOW!”
Chapter 11
Tabitha
I’m back in human form, racing for the kitchen phone as fast as I can when Jasper calls out, “Wait. I think she’s coming to.”
I skid on the hardwood, nearly taking out the ceramic pumpkins on the entry table, and double back to Bea, who’s blinking up at the ceiling from the rug with a dazed, uncertain expression. Her hand is still pressed to her chest, but she’s breathing. I drop to my knees at her side, heart pounding so loud I can barely hear.
“Bea? Bea, can you hear me?”
She squints at me—at my face, then her gaze slides over to Jasper, who’s crouched on her other side.
Then her eyes travel down.
Down.
Down.
They go comically wide when they land on Jasper’s junk.
“Oh, my?—”
‘Fuck! SHIFT NOW!’
The thought screams through both our minds simultaneously, and we blur into our animal forms so fast I don’t even feel the transition. One second I’m a naked woman, the next I’m a tabby cat, and Jasper is?—
Bea’s eyes roll back and she crumples again.
‘Fuck!’Jasper’s mental voice is pure panic.‘FUCK!’
‘Is she still breathing?!’I rush forward, pressing my paw to her chest. Her heart is beating. She’s breathing. She just... fainted. Again.
‘This is YOUR fault!’I hiss at him.
‘MY FAULT?! You’re the one who said MEOW like that was going to HELP!’
‘You’re the one who BIT me while we were HAVING SEX in the LIVING ROOM!’
‘You ASKED me to!’
‘I didn’t think BEA would WALK IN!’
We both stop our mental shouting and stare down at the unconscious elderly woman on her entryway floor.
‘Oh god,’I whimper.‘We killed her.’