Alpha

Swallowing, Jules pushed the thought away. This wasn’t the time for moping.

He studied the alpha curiously.

The Xeus was… large. He was pure muscle everywhere, powerfully built, with a dark trail of hair leading downward to a—

Flushing, Jules tore his eyes away. He felt a mix of embarrassed, flustered, and painfully curious. He’d never been so close to a naked man. But was a transformed Xeus a “man”? Most of him looked like one, but the long, scary-looking claws at the tips of the Xeus’s fingers seemed to point toward the answer being “no.” The alpha’s face was very ugly, his features vaguely male but distorted into something predatory and beastly. Dark, fur-like facial hair obscured his features. And those eyes… those glowing green eyes that were tracking Jules’s every movement didn’t seem entirely sentient, though they were oddly attentive for a simpleminded beast.

The Xeus emanated strength and virility, which was probably why it took Jules a while to realize that he was hurt. Ther