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as his fingers slowly learned each of her textures.
    He leaned over her, and she reached up, cupping his jaw and stroking her thumb down the cords of his neck. Odin slipped his fingers between her thighs and parted the lips of her sex. She clenched her jaw on the moan that came out of her when his fingers slid in.
    Her hips twisted, and she pushed against him, the rhythm took hold, and she ceased to see his focussed face above her.
    He brought his thumb up and caressed her clit in short circles. Jolts of power ran through her, and she couldn’t stifle her cries any more.
    Odin brought his mouth down on hers, and he took her cries into him with a low growl.
    She was curled against him, and he was calmly licking his fingers when Kali spun her mind back into its proper place.
    At a loss for words, she blinked to settle herself as he drew the covers over them and held her tightly against him.
    “Good night, Kaliana.”
    She whispered, “Good night, Odin.”
    He breathed slowly, and her body caught onto the beat. Before she knew it, the world was lost to warm, comfortable darkness.

Chapter Six
    Kali woke alone. There was a vague feeling of the Orb doing something at the back of her mind involving the streams of consciousness that were still coursing along through Kali’s mind, but the active thoughts were gone.
    Odin was also gone, but when Kali swung her legs off the bed, she found him. A thick layer of mist covered the floor. She walked carefully to the lav, and a tumble of fog came with her, making closing the door impossible or at least rude.
    Despite her consumption of the day before, she was shocked that her body did not have any of its standard needs. She stepped under the shower and gave her body a quick scrub to reset the sensitive points from the night before.
    She was groping for a towel when a naked and amused Odin handed it to her.
    “Good morning, Kaliana.”
    She spluttered and dabbed at her face while trying to cover her body. “Uh. Good morning, Odin. Did you sleep?”
    His face had altered slightly. His features had taken on more of a solid cast. His jaw was wider but his lips still had a sensual curve to them.
    “I don’t need to sleep, but I do need to take on my natural form from time to time.” He took the towel from her and dried her back before kneeling to work on her legs.
    Her limbs trembled at his proximity. He gave a chuckle and kept drying.
    “What do you find so amusing, Odin?”
    “You. You have no idea what you do to me.”
    “I am not doing anything.”
    He stood and wrapped her in the towel before he did the same to her hair. “I didn’t understand why the Orb put us together, but after last night, it suddenly made sense.” Odin shepherded her out to the dining area and pulled the chair out for her.
    She sat and drummed her fingers on the table. “What do you mean it made sense ?”
    He moved to the selector and picked some foods for her. “My species is gaseous by nature.”
    “Right.”
    “Your pheromones call me like no other being I have ever met. Even my own species never appealed to me the way you do.” He poured a cup of tea and walked over to her with it.
    She blinked and blushed at his frank stare. “I don’t quite understand.”
    “There is a narrow chemical cloud that surrounds you, and it calls to me.” He sat across from her and took her hand. Without another word, he raised the inside of her wrist to his lips. “Your body began its reaction the moment that you broke out of your tank, and I was hooked. When the Orb asked me to be your companion and guard, I jumped at the chance.”
    She shivered and held the towel tightly to her breasts with her free hand. “Um, that is a little unexpected. I have never had a man attracted to the way I smell before.”
    “You are out of normal time and space, expect only that things will not go as you expect.” He pressed a kiss to her pulse and returned her hand to her.
    She smiled and sipped at her tea.
    He retrieved