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Don’t Make a Sound 
by Jaime Johnesee 

I pause by the wall, waiting for the guard to leave his station. Out of view, I clench my now canine-esque teeth together. “Don’t make a sound,” I tell myself in my mind.

Pain shoots through my hands as the bones lengthen–the tips tearing through my flesh and left protruding as claws.

I sniff the air quickly, drawn to his slightly sweet scent.

Too much sugary food, but Lord, it made the meat so sweet. I wasn’t supposed to do this anymore. I was supposed to be good.

Yet here I was, inhaling that scent, my stomach rumbling, soul and beast yearning, begging, to taste that sweet flesh.

Just one little taste.

I mean, we can take down one guard, they’ll never know…right?

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Fiction © Copyright Jaime Johnesee
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

More from Jaime Johnesee:

Shifters: A Samantha Reece Mystery

When a serial killer begins leaving remains of victims in hotel bathtubs all over town FBI Agent Samantha Reece makes it her business to stop him.

This detective’s got an ace up her sleeve in the form of her ability to shift into the guise of a were panther. As she tracks down the cold-hearted murderer she also has to contend with an anti-shifter group determined to destroy her.

Not to mention the black jaguar who turned her decides to come sauntering back into her life.

Available on Amazon!