Page 17 (1/2)

"Sascha thinks I’ll eat you up if given the chance"

"Will you?" She wasn’t sure about Vaughn, about the jaguar that prowled in the darkness behind the beauty of his eyes

A finger trailed down her face and she forced herself not to et past this block Her fingers tingled with the sensory hn’s hair and she wondered what his skin would feel like

"Coh, but there was nothing threatening about it It was almost

She searched the dictionary in herto coaxThey’d de terh she hadn’t noticed him move But he remained atop the sheets while she lay below Why then could she feel the heat of his body, almost as if he burned hotter than her?

"Maybe"

It took her a second to remember her question "Why?" Her hands were on top of the sheets, a hairsbreadth from the bare skin of his chest Her eyes widened "Are you naked?"

"Unless you have soive me, yeah" He sounded entirely too comfortable with that fact

"You can’t enter a woman’s bedroom naked" That wasn’t acceptable behavior in any race

"I was clothed when I enteredinskin above her, a male so beautiful that she wondered at his existence in the same world as her "I can shift back if you’d like"

It was a dare "Fine" She wasn’t going to let hi he wanted

"Are you sure you want a jaguar in your roo in her wanted to see the change, the sah she shouldn’t have had the capacity to recognize male beauty

"Don’t ht shiht She’d thought the change would be painful for hi about this spoke of pain, only of awe

A heartbeat later, the shiuar who had very sharp teeth and eyes exactly like those of the o She sed She was Psy - she felt no fear But it was practical to be on guard with sorowled al

"Was that a question?" she ventured "Because I don’t speak jaguar" Where had that coical stateuar lowered its head and nuzzled at her throat Her heart threatened to rip through her skin and to the outside "I’er than this," she whispered, and forced herself to lift one hand around and over the jaguar’s head until her fingers closed on the ruff of his neck She tugged He refused to rowl that vibrated in her bones

"Stop it, Vaughn"

Without warning, the fur disappeared fro into rainbow-bright sparks that ended with a naked old strands of hair "So you’ll touch the cat, but not the et you to move" She didn’t release his hair, found she couldn’t His scent was everywhere in the air, his skin golden and close enough to touch, his smile pure cat

"Where would you like ?"

She knew he’d added the "little" on purpose "Away from me"

"Are you sure?" His sht see ained for"

"I know this kind of behavior isn’t acceptable a It ht to be true "Hoould you like it if an unknown male came into your sister’s bedroom in this manner?"

All amusement was suddenly wiped off his face He went still, so completely still that it was as if he wereconsiderable intellectual stiainst his went silent, aware she’d awakened soo of my hair, Faith And close your eyes By the tione"