reviews_and_ramblings | Human Nature by Cat Kane

Maybe it’s only my impression, but I see a bit of the Beauty and the Beast in this story.

Randall is the faithful servant of Gage, a strange man who lives in an isolated ranch. Randall serves him in all his desires, and when I say “all” I mean “all”. It’s obvious that Randall is in love with Gage, but Gage doesn’t want to allow himself to love Randall back, since Randall is a mortal. When Gage welcomed the then little child Randall in his life, he didn’t know, or better, he didn’t expect that the man would become more than a ward for him. Gage is demon and he is used to loose everything he loved in life, and so maybe he thinks that, if he doesn’t love Randall, then he will not loose him. But it’s clear that Gage failed, since even if he doesn’t admit it with himself, he is already in love with the man.

When Randall takes home a “puppy”, Gage knows that Randall has something else in mind. Dominic, the “puppy”, is a young werewolf that was hunted almost to death near their property. Randall convinces Gage to allow him to heal and nurture back to health the boy and then maybe, give him a job on the ranch. Gage is jealous, even if he doesn’t want Randall’s love, he not even wants for him to love someone else. Yes, it’s a bit egoistical from his side, but no one ever said that love is something logical. And so, instead of trying to remove Dominic from Randall, Gage decides to seduce the young werewolf. I don’t think the real intention of Gage is to have a ménages among the three of them, but it’s exactly what it happens: Randall loves Gage, but he knows that he can’t give him all he needs, and so he introduces Dominic in the equation to have a substitute for himself; Gage loves Randall and he doesn’t want to loose him to Dominic, and so, he thinks, if he bounds Dominic to him, he will not loose Randall; Dominic loves both Gage and Randall, for different reason, and he is more than happy to be in the middle of them, after all, wolves are pack animals.

The story is almost all concentrated in few days and spent all inside Gage’s ranch. It’s nice, but I wouldn’t have minded to have a little more info on the background of both Randall than Dominic. Also Randall and Gage’s life together, before Dominic’s arrival would be an interesting topic for a prequel of this story.

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