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Or turned on Desire had sizzled in her blue eyes when she’d wrapped her hands around his neck and pressed her sweet body against hi to drive hile, he would have a crazed mindand blue balls Even now his trousers felt uncoht onto a busy avenue "Are you hungry? I’arded him nonchalantly "What do you eat? Fieldcat I could take down a horse"

She griher and find out He flexed his hands on the steering wheel "I was thinking about stopping at a restaurant Would you care to joinhi me out?"

"No"

"Will you purr if I tickle you behind the ears?"

"No"

"Will you dance the sa?"

"No"

"Do you always say no?"

His ed her skirt down a bit "I’ed "No more than usual"

She swatted his shoulder "I’m not rude! Well, not normally" She adjusted the collar of his polo shirt

Holy Mother of God, would she stop touching hi here"

"All you think about is food"

"Not really" He glanced at her legs

"I think I just want to take a hot bath and go to bed I’ve had a lot thrown at hts I’m mentally and emotionally exhausted"

"I could order the food, and they’ll deliver it after we get hoood"

He pulled into a parking lot "That’s one of the iuard I can’t leave the sleeping Vas delivered"

"I see"

He pulled his cell phone out to call his favorite restaurant "I’ a sirloin steak Rare"

She made a face

"Does that lovely expressionelse?"

She smiled "Do they have seafood?"

"I’ll check" He placed his order, then inquired about the menu "Pecan-crusted salmon?" he asked her

Her blue eyes widened "That sounds heavenly"

He placed the order, set his phone on the console, then drove back onto the avenue

"Youon a trip," sheon an expedition to find more of your kind She said you and your children are an endangered species"

"I’d rather not talk about it" He turned onto the Bronx River Parkway

"You told your friends last night you were hunting for a mate"

"Don’t want to talk about it" If he confided in her, it would generate a sense of closeness, and that would only increase the torture

With a sigh, she scrunched down in her car seat Unfortunately, that hs About an inch to be exact

"You were crying earlier" The second the words left his mouth, he slapped hi in him either

"I was upset Furious, actually Atout the sideThe line of her jaw and slender neck was beautiful Merda He had to stop thinking like that "Do you want to talk about it?"

"No"

"Your dad ave hiritted his teeth "I guess we’ll just be quiet then"

"Fine" She crossed her arms over her chest "Actually, I think I anals"

His jaw ticked "How’s that?"

"You kissed me with a ton of hot, desperate passion, then acted like it was a mistake"

"It was a mistake"

"If the hot, desperate passion was real - and it certainly felt real - then how could it be a mistake?"

She had him there He could claim the passion wasn’t real, but she’d knoas a lie "I have to find a were-panther mate The survival of my species depends on it"

She was quiet for about two blessed minutes, then she finally spoke "You have no choice in the matter?"

"No"

"What if you can’t find any were-panthers?"

He sed hard "I will I have to"

"And if you find a mate, you’ll marry her?"

His throat constricted

"Even if you don’t love her?"

"I have no choice" Merda, shehave you been looking?" she asked

"Five years" Five years since the Summer of Death "I’ve been on five expeditions"

"Where?"

He sighed "You ask a lot of questions"

"I’mcurious"

"Curiosity killed the cat"

She s this tihlands"

"Chiang Mai?"

He glanced at her, surprised "You’ve heard of it?"

She laughed "I’ve been there I was stationed at the e Mai for a feeeks"