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I felt him move and heard the door shut behind him, but I kept my attention on Olaf

“Where has your lioness gone, Anita?”

“She’s still in there, here, and she has a e for you We both do”

He sround for most of his life, and noas a werelion There’s a certain arrogance that runs in theest, baddest aniround I wondered if his attitude would have been better if he’d been turned into a wolf, or a leopard, but noe’d never know The die was cast Lion it was

His ses I think I stared at hi, and he cared what I did now It was a chink in his armor, just like my fear of him had been for me

“What is the e, Anita?”

“She likes you She thinks you would be strong enough to be my lion to call, and her mate”

The arrogant smile flared back “Your inner lion is wise”

“She didn’t understand why I didn’t just jump at the chance to have you in Florida, but she understands why I hesitated now We can’t have a male that kills all the cubs We’ll be alone before we let that happen”

“Cubs? You have no children”

“Kaitlin is a cub, or a fellow lioness, and we are not okay with you playing cat and mouse with her”

“I was teasing You know I do not like blondes”

“You did the sa with me once”

“Are you jealous?”

I sighed and tried to think how to explain this to him “Look, Moriarty If I really am your Adler, then you know that I’ other wo shit like that is not the way to my heart”