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“Don’t be foolish, Em,” she muttered to herself, as she tried to push thethe Monstru such thoughts about hi that they had crept into her brain at all

Though it was difficult to judge the lion-like Monstruer than herself—probably by a good deal It was completely improper for her to want to touch him, or to feel drawn to his warm, spicy, anile even though lions didn’t live in the jungle at all—they lived on the African planes, didn’t they?

Anyherever they lived, it was dangerous to pet one Not that the Monstrum leader really was a lion—he just happened to look rather like one But still, he exuded a sense of danger that was alht A sense of doer that she had felt herself drawn to him

“It’s just your hor up, Eht happen So menopause but some…”

Soht sweats she’d been experiencing lately, E out her vibrator In fact, she couldn’t re so sexually restless since her early twenties, which were far behind her now

Her overactive sex drive was just another trick of menopause, she knew, but it was ridiculous to be so preoccupied with such things at her age It was irritating and distracting at a tiether, especially when said nation see itself apart over the subject of the Monstru Earth brides

Even her ex, Nigel, had gotten involved He was a high-end barrister specializing in soulless corporate law and he had called her the other day, de

“Hoould you like it if one of our daughters was called as a bride by one of those…those beasts?” he’d de down the phone line

“I very much doubt that would happen,” Eed, which means she’s out of the Bride Draft because she’s already spoken for”

“And what about Eed, which ht be called by any kind of creature now—thanks to you! So that looks like a bloody great lion or tiger at the fucking zoo! It would certainly maul her to death and it would be all your fault!”

“The Monstruel,” Eewise “They are not here because they want to eat up the women of our world—they want to find their soul-mate, just like any other Kindred”