My Raptor: An Erotic Shapeshifting Paranormal Romance Read Online Free

not there anymore, but had been replaced by her falcon who was now in the air, soaring downwards, away from her and out to the beyond.
    It took her a few minutes of standing there to realize exactly what had just happened. But instead of being alarmed, she simply went inside and sat in her bedroom where she had first met the man and waited. A part of her seemed to have known it all along. Her man, the wounded one she had been taking care of for all these weeks, he was also the falcon she had befriended weeks back.

Chapter 6
    Before long, only a few hours later actually, she heard wings beating and noticed the familiar shadow outside – her falcon had returned. Moments after he had landed on her balcony, just like before, in an instant, he was a man again.
    She stood there for the longest time after she had handed him a sheet to cover himself, just looking into his eyes. He seemed to have no problem concerning his nakedness but she certainly didn’t want any of her neighbors complaining about a naked man in the room next door.
    She wondered where to start and which questions were the most important. She didn’t want to wear him out or to scare him away but she was filled with questions about where he went, where he came from, what he was…  Then she just asked him what he was.
    He smiled at her and said simply, “I am a shapeshifter and that this city has always been my family’s rightful land. I have traveled great distances to be here with you.”
    “With me?” Carol asked, completely confused by his response.
    “Yes, my dearest, I have had many dreams of you… during my journeys throughout all my domain, I always saw a balcony… a perch I realized I must find… and then one day, weeks back, I did find it. And it soon became a place where I so liked to spend my time. I had no idea at first it was all because of you.”
    He took a breath, shifted the weight from his bad leg to his good one and went on, “I was afraid to show you what I really was because I feared how you might react. From the first day I arrived at your balcony, when I had first  looked at you, I was amazed… amazed that I had found you – the woman in my visions.”
    He went on, “While I had hoped for you to accept me, I had wondered how you could do that, when I was sometimes a falcon, sometimes a man. But I knew from my visions that you were the person I was meant to meet and the one that I was destined to be with.”
    Carol just stood there, completely overwhelmed at the facts he was now sharing with her. How could someone like him be looking for someone like her? In her mind it simply made no sense to her.
    He also explained that when he recently arrived, there was another like him in the city, the city that should be his by all rights. The other was a mighty beast, almost a legend among his own people. Her wounded friend, she still didn’t know his name, said that he often wondered if he should just leave and give up his rights without a battle. Then he came to realize that leaving the city meant also leaving her.
    “Looking at you from your window every night however made me realize how miserable my life would be without you; it would in fact be no life at all,” he concluded. “Now I realize it was that I knew that I couldn’t bear to leave you and not live out my dreams.”
    They wandered inside her apartment as he continued his story. Carol continued to listen as he went on, handing him a shirt and pants to change into. As he dressed he told her that when he had left weeks back that he had met the beast and challenged him to a fight. After a vicious fight that nearly killed him, he had won. It was all he could do to make it back to her in one piece and that is exactly why he was in such bad shape when she found him that morning.
    He then looked at her, and took her left hand in his, “My dear,” he asked, “could a lady such as yourself, ever love a person… such as myself?”
    Carol could hardly believe her ears, how