Listeriosis: An MM horror

Loukas Asbjorn had made a mistake.

That was not something new to the young man. Under different circumstances, it was just any other day in his life. But this mistake had driven away the first friend he'd ever made. Despite his regret and desire to make amends, he knew deep down that Hide, the older, yet playful beast-kin, would never want to be near something like him ever again.

It had been a month since the incident that left Hide with wounds that just wouldn't heal, and Loukas had to go back to his role of a decent son to his prestigious and wealthy family by suppressing his depravity. But his deviant taste for the innards of men-especially his little goat-was still ever-present and only getting worse. All seemed lost until a man who he had only met once at a party, Xander, took his hand and offered him a second chance to finally be wanted in another person's life. Someone else loved what he was and blood he spilled.

The more Loukas' disgust in his actions diminished, the more his new companion unnerved him. Xander's ravishing gaze. His undeniable scent. His lust for Loukas' true form. What had been locked away slithered out from a simple touch or gaze into the man's emerald eyes. The same ones that Hide had been saved by and vowed to never fall for again.

That was why Hide had never seemed to care much about asinine things such as relationships or romance, making his break from Loukas as clean as possible. It would have been hypocritical, given his current situation with his long-time friend that wouldn't become anything more than that. But in a moment of weakness, Hide realized why he was better off alone, or at least telling himself that was why he had always ended up that way.

Yet, the soft spoken boy who Hide had pushed away remained just as devoted when given the cold shoulder. Against his better judgment, the beast-kin couldn't help but be fascinated by Loukas' incessant crush. He was loved for the first time in his life and couldn't refuse the ever-growing obsession.

As Loukas gradually falls under the spell of another, Hide must decide whether to harden his heart as he's always had or allow himself to be taken by Loukas. Knowing what the young man is capable of, Hide's only fear isn't that Loukas may actually eat him, but that he'd gladly let him.