Ryan at first didn't even get what Maddy was talking about. Then he stuck out his tongue, which turned out to be simply monstrously long and forked at the end and began to examine it as if seeing it for the first time.
"Oh my God! Stop that!" - the girl screamed horrified, feeling that a little more and she would faint.
"Your reaction offends me a little, you know?" - Ryan frowned, transforming the tongue into a normal human form. "Did you also react to Brian shift like that? Or do you have anything against reptiles?"
Maddy ignored his question and fell back into the chair, covering her face with her hands.
"Now I understand why you always annoyed me. Surely! You damn reptiloid. How did I not guess before?!" -She moaned, massaging her temples.
"Firstly, if you are talking about those fictional aliens from some strange websites on the internet, then you are mistaken. In part, I'm really a reptile. Although it is more accurate to say a hybrid reptile and a wolf. Let's say that Veronica's older sister had a somewhat odd taste in men." - Ryan drawled with displeasure. - "I don't understand you at all! First, you declare that you love all the animals and so on. And now what? It's all about fur, right? Are you one of these?"
Maddy was a little embarrassed when she heard this. Perhaps she behaved not very nice. So sharply reacting to some of his features. But this tongue and double eyelid ... God, that's just gross, she already shuddered, from only recollection of him observing his long tongue.
"You know, by the way, I can do a lot of things with it." - Ryan suddenly bragged. - "I can show you!"
"No! I really don't want to know this now. And never will!" -Cried Maddie in a panic, closing her eyes tightly and plugging her ears. - "We have no time for this. I've finished everything here. So let's go! We still need to somehow get into the office of the big boss."
Ryan frowned and folded his arms across his chest. Apparently, he really wanted to show all the charms of his forked tongue right now.
" You miss a lot." - With a serious face, he said when the girl finally decided to open one eye.
"Allow me to spend some time in beautiful ignorance. I beg you." - Said Maddy, twisting her face, trying hard to figure out how to lead the subject away. Such an intent gaze of this man began to influence her very oddly. For some reason, his words didn't sound like a joke, and Maddy even felt that it was not only about his tongue skills... Or about it, but somehow not only ...
" As you wish." - He finally nodded, pulled himself from the wall and reached the table in a few steps, in one fluid motion picked up the girl in his arms. He did it so naturally and dexterously as if he was doing it for years. Maddy didn't even have time to protest before they stopped at the wide window that took almost the entire wall. Here Ryan paused for a second, placing the girl so that he could hold her with one hand.
"Getting into Mr. Winterbourne's office will be harder than here. Only Miss Fisher and Alpha himself have a key card. But there is another way that you might not like, I guess." - He said, looking Maddy in the eye.
"Which one?" - She asked carefully, trying to look away. But his green eyes literally hypnotized her, not allowing to move.
"Just try not to scream too loud." - He answered mysteriously, and then his second eyelids blinked again, transforming the eyes, and his lips stretched out in a predatory smile, exposing two rows of sharp teeth from above and below. Maddy immediately shut her eyes and tried to forget what she just saw, afraid that this will be the image that would hunt her into nightmares from now on. At the same time, she heard the sound of broken glass and a sharp gust of wind made her press into the arms of the guy closer. His body tightened like a string, and the next moment Maddy felt how he leaped forward.
" God! We so gonna die! What will my friends say when they find out that I have turned into a beef patty together with a crazy reptiloid? Damn, they will surely love that! Basterds!" - Flashed through the girl's head, but the feeling of fall didn't follow. On the contrary, Ryan twisted himself in flight, and then the girl was sandwiched between the cold glass surface and his chest. It was so sudden that Maddy even opened her eyes and immediately regretted it. From below the guy's face now looked even more intimidating. The skin has transformed into a scales copper-green color, the jaw seemed to have become wider, and the lips disappeared altogether, leaving only a slit for the mouth, but the nose, on the contrary, was not at all like a reptile. It postured forward and was clearly outlined, like a wolf muzzle but without fur.
Fascinated by this picture, the girl did not even immediately notice that they began to move upwards. And only when the transformed paw with wide-spread fingers and sharp claws flashed into view, she suddenly realized that Ryan was slowly crawling upward on the sheer surface of the glass. The pads of his finger seemed to be able to stick to a smooth surface lie glued.
"I can do a lot with it too." - Suddenly came the proud voice of a guy from above. It seems the mind of the girl by this moment has already surrendered and refused to accept such a reality to the point that for a second she even felt like this guy's smug scaly face was kind of cute. She barked with laughter and shook her head. But her chuckle quickly died down when another fact reached her mind. He crawled, using two hands ... Then what supported her under the ass now?
" Oh my God! This is the tail! Damn it, Ryan! You have a tail! And it is like a snake! And it touches my ass !!!" - A wild scream rang out around them, at the same moment her mouth was sealed with something cold. Maddy almost went crazy realizing that this is just the free end of Ryan's tail.
"Shhhh," - the guy gestured with the tip, putting it to his lips and continued crawling up. - "Don't yell, if you don't want to know what I can do with this part of my body ..."
Maddy froze when she heard such a threat, like a rabbit. Her mind went blank. There were no thoughts, just blackness. Noticing how the girl was all strained, the guy stopped again and freed her mouth from his tail, patting her head with it, as if trying to calm her down.
"A little bit more, we are almost there." - He whispered soothingly. It didn't help much; her eyes were still glassy. Maddy didn't even have the strength to object, she just nodded slightly, praying that it would end soon.
After a couple of seconds, Ryan finally reached the right window. This time he did not break the glass, but just cut a hole of the desired diameter with his claw.
Once in the room, the girl immediately began to squirm, trying to break out of his arms, but the man pulled her closer to him, now using not only the long tail but both hands.
"Shhhhh."-He hissed in her ear, forcing her to double the efforts. This sound really seemed spooky coming from scaly lips.
"Maddelin, calm down, please. You are forgetting about your leg. Wait a second. "
He hastily crossed the room, setting the girl in the boss's chair and immediately took two steps back.
" Well, excuse me, for my appearance." -He grumbled, turning away and transforming back into a human form. - "Sorry for being born a freak. Not everyone can be as beautiful as you, you know!"
Maddy opened her mouth not expecting such a sudden reaction. They always fought before, from the very beginning of the work and not a single day passed without him being an asshole to Maddy, giving her a hard time about her hair color or appearance. The girl of course never remained indebted, taking revenge by giving him titles like: "cold-blooded bastard" and "creeping snake." And he never was offended! He didn't even try to fire her for that. What is wrong with him now? Did he expect her to be delighted with all these ... stuff ?! And since when does he find her beautiful? Does his brain transform too but backward?
"Do your business already!" - the guy snapped and with a sulking expression moving aside. -"Let's hope that your scream wasn't heard from the inside."
Maddy immediately shook herself, finally remembering that she was on a mission and it was worth pushing all unnecessary thoughts for later.
This time it was much more difficult to hack into the computer of the boss. Fortunately, according to Greg's plan, she didn't need to look for anything special, although if she managed to fish out anything, it would be very helpful.
"May I ask for your help." - Said Maddy, turning to Ryan, who was standing by the wall still sulking.
"And now you are ready to ask for help even from a reptiloid? How low you can sink, woman!" - He quipped, not moving from his place.
Maddy winced.
"Do not act like a child! I had every right to be in shock and horror. My crazy sister had a boa in childhood. And I adored him, he even sometimes crawled into my bed and just lay nearby stretched across. It seemed very lovely. Up until the day my sister explained that it was the way he measures if I'm going to fit into him if he decides to gobble me up. By the way, after that, she didn't stop letting him crawl free at home. Everyone has their own childhood traumas. If I suddenly turned into a creature that you don't like, you wouldn't be happy either!"
"Yes, I would definitely freak out if you turn into yourself one day!" - He grunted, stopping opposite. - "So what should I do?"
Maddy decided to ignore this pin and gave him a small camera.
"Just place it so that the picture on the wall will be in the center of the shooting, but the screen with the transfer process also should be in the corner." - She said and barely restrained herself not to cry out when the guy at the last second transformed his hand and grasped her palm with a scaly paw.
"Good," - he whispered, holding her hand in his for a little longer than necessary. But the horror on Maddy's face quickly grew into shock, and then into interest. Surprisingly, but to the touch, his hand was not at all as nasty as she imagined. A little rough, but at the same time strangely velvety.Is that even possible?
Feeling that the girl is not only not trying to pull out her hand, but also began to run her fingers over his palm, the guy jumped back, as if stung.
"You know, I think I changed my mind. So what did you want to tell me about your tail and fingers?" - Maddie asked curiously, thoughtfully examining her palm.
" Too late!" - Ryan threw back, quickly turning away, but the girl managed to notice a couple of copper scales that appeared on his cheeks. Does he blush like this? Cuuute!
Maddy even started to rise from the chair. But at this moment, Ryan suddenly froze in place, lifting his head up and sticking out his forked tongue.
"Something is wrong. It seems someone is heading here and there are a lot of them." -He finally hissed. - "Hurry up, we need to leave."
"No, wait! What about the video! It is crucial for the plan!" - cried Maddy, looking back at the process on the screen. - " I need at least 2 minutes."
The guy cursed and quickly set the camera at the right angle, headed for the door.
" Wait here. Quickly finish. I'll scout and come back."
Maddy did not even have time to answer, and he was already disappeared behind the door, which opened from the inside without a key, prudently leaving his shoe in the slot.
The girl immediately felt the approaching panic. With him near, all of this didn't seem so scary. In the office of the most powerful werewolf, hacking his computer. Even on the sheer wall, she felt much better, at least she was in his arms, or rather in his tail... She suddenly wanted to feel his tail on his bottom again so terribly ...
" Jesus! What is wrong with me?!" - She scolded herself, giving herself a mental slap in the face and hurried to send all the necessary data and video to Greg.
The copying process was almost over, as a strange roar rang out in the corridor. The next second, the door literally blew off its hinges. Maddy fell backward out of surprise and froze as if trying to play dead.
A bizarre creature paused right before her, making the girl almost pass out from the panic. In form, it looked more like a wolf. Four legs and body structure was not that of reptile. But the head vaguely resembled a dragon's muzzle from movies. Add to it a long snake tail and scales, and you get an overall picture that made Maddy start hiccuping.
She was ready to scream as a familiar tail sealed her mouth, and then wrapped itself around her waist and threw the girl into the air. The next moment, she slapped on a scaly back. Ryan tore off, and only his tail, which still held Maddy, did not allow her to fall.
A strange reptilian wolf, in two jumps, found himself at the window and squeezed through with the girl into the hole, while Maddy unsuccessfully was trying to see at least something to cling to on the body of the shifter.
"Damn right! It all about the fur!" - The last thought flashed in her head, before Ryan, having twisted, climbed out onto a vertical wall and with a high speed run down, like it was no big deal. At this, her brain apparently decided that this was too much and just turned off.