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"Well, people like you, for starters We couldn’t be all that different if we could breed together and make little Janes Plus, I’ve seen others do what Carl’s done" Carl was Capitola’s dad, who’d cut hiic to die with his human wife

"He’s just like a human, isn’t he?" I said

"Exactly Anyway, I hadfro streak of black dirt on his flesh

"I think I need a shower," I said Then I yawned

"And bed," he replied

I raised my eyebrows at hi at me But I could see the heat in his eyes

He stood, still cradling me in his arrateful As soon as we’d sat down together, and the warmth of his body had started to seep into my bones, I’d become unspeakably tired

I did make sure my ax would be safe on his chair, and that his chair would be safe from my ax, before I let him whisk me away to his bathroom

To my disappoint me up sohly, depositing what appeared to be about ten tons of mud down Anyan’s drain, and then brushedit out with ers and one of Anyan’s much-too-small combs

And I was not at all disappointed to find, when I walked out of the shorapped in one of Anyan’s huge towels, what appeared to be a deliciously naked barghest waiting for me under the sheets His room was dark, in a dark house, which held no one else

No one ill need aped at hi to resolidify my knees and make my mouth work

"If this isn’t what you want, please tell me," he said, his voice quiet in the dark roos to breathe I hoped to say soant and sexy Instead, I said:

"I want"

Luckily, it worked He sot to borrow a shirt," I said, notfrom the doorway to the bathrooentle "Cos werenext to his side of the bed, he reached out a hand and slid it over ed, gently

"Off," he comthe toay from my body so that it pooled around ive me space

I laid down next to him, but he wouldn’t let h, covered the lower half of his body

"You, my love, are ah, he was right Cleaning all thes A particularly livid affair had set up hoh I was so out of it I hadn’t even noticed

"I always have liked the color purple," I said, as Anyan’s gaze raked over my body He looked at me with that wonderful cohest could get aith

"Nohose ass did you kick, again?" he asked,ware bruise on my shoulder

"Um, Phaedra’s," I said "I thinkhis healing lips downat every bruise and scrape on the way