"What happened yesterday. The half-shift and the ardeur and... and the sex that followed. I didn't like it, Anita. I know we've never discussed... limits and things," he says, fidgeting a little. "That's something I don't like. I don't like sex while shifted. Gabriel, a couple of times, was paid a lot of money... I mean, obscene amounts of money... to let this one guy fuck me while I was a leopard."

His cheeks positively flame with that admission.

"I hated it. I still do. Even a half-shift is still me as an animal, Anita, and I don't... I don't like that. I never want to do it again. Ever." Despite his flush, he meets her shocked gaze. "Never again like that."