Free Lust of the Cat Men: A Shifter Romance (The Pride Book 2) by Amie Heights

BOOK TWO OF THE PRIDE
    Amie Heights
    Copyright 2015 by Amie Heights
    This work of fiction is intended for mature audiences only.  All characters represented within are eighteen years of age or older and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.  This work is property of Amie Heights, please do not reproduce illegally.
    This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental.  The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.
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    A lison sat alone in her room, wondering.  She wondered what her life was going to be like tomorrow, she wondered if she would ever see home, and she wondered just how exactly she had gotten herself in this situation.
    One week ago she had been the receptionist for a company that had captured a half man/half cat beast and had started to experiment on it.  She was unaware of the transgression but she had the feeling that something evil was going on behind the scenes.  She had never known exactly what the crime was until she had been kidnapped by the creature’s brothers as revenge.  Since that day she had lived hidden away in their den, a secure and hidden catacomb that they secretly maintained deep under an old and dilapidated building.
    Despite its run down exterior, inside the den was an opulent mansion albeit without any windows.  Her single room here was larger than her entire apartment at home and decorated in a plush and regal extravagance that spoke volumes about the wealth these creatures had. 
    She was visited several times a day by members of the Pride.  The Alpha leader of the group was named Gerald who, like the others, during the day resembled normal human man.  He was big, muscular and lean, and had a proud face.  It was at night that the Change happened to him and his fellow Pride members, turning them into the beast-like cat men.
    Alison had seen that first hand when she was kidnapped by Gerald and his second, William.  William was almost as large and Gerald but darker, more panther like than Gerald's lion alter ego.  The Change made the men sprout a thick layer of fur over their bodies, increasing muscle mass and mixing their features to feline.  The ears became pointed so they could be rotated to take in their surroundings.  Claws and fangs extended from their bodies and most shocking, their eyes expanded and changed to slit irises.  They still retained their mental faculties, able to think and reason, but were less able to control the animalistic urges that washed over them. 
    She had learned by talking to the men this last week that in addition to the cosmetic changes, their senses increased to a much higher level than any man or cat.  They had an almost impossible connection to the physical world in their beast forms.  Davidson, the scholar of the group, had told her he could even feel her breathing when she slept from his location far on the other side of the den.
    The remaining members were Jacob, Mathew, Jean Luc, and Samuel.  Jacob was sweet to her, always the one that would bring the meals to her room and sometimes staying to eat with her.  Mathew was the caretaker of the Pride, not really a doctor but the one with the most knowledge of how these men healed.  Jean Luc was the most talkative of the men, always full of questions about her life.  She remembered the old adage about curiosity and cats and sighed.
    The youngest member of the Pride was Samuel, the one that she had seen the least during her capture here.  He was the one that had been imprisoned in an animal's cage and forced to endure the invasive experiments her company performed on him.  His body healed fast in its feline form but the scars were still on his hide from where they had taken hunks of skin and flesh to study. 
    She knew that they had regrets about what had done to her in their fury for revenge, a