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me the moment he found out about you and sent me scrambling to locate you. I wish the directions had been less vague. I would have found you sooner.”
    Adonia ate her stew in silence. When she sat back, she looked much more relaxed. Darkness had moved in, partly because the window was covered with snow and partly because the sun was waning in the sky. It wasn’t late. This far north, the days were very short.
    “You never answered my question about your childhood. What was it like living out here alone, fending for yourselves?”
    “It was…fun.”
    “Fun? That’s how you describe exile?”
    She chuckled and he loved the tinkle of her voice. “I never knew any different. My mother didn’t tell me we had been banished until I was old enough to understand. She raised me as though all children lived in the wilderness alone with their mothers. It was…normal to me.”
    She leaned on her elbow on the table. “We ran free in wolf form nearly every day. My mother reminded me how lucky I was to have that freedom. ‘In the cities,’ she would say, ‘wolf shifters can’t shift and frolic like we can out in the middle of nowhere.’ She made it sound like I was the lucky one.”
    “She sounds like a fantastic parent.”
    “She’s been my everything. And now I fear she’s been caught in this storm. What if she didn’t make it to town before it hit?”
    Zephyr swallowed the lump in his throat. Angst for a little girl kept secluded all her life threatened to overwhelm him. “I can’t promise you she’s perfectly safe, but I can assure you this storm isn’t about her. Frost wouldn’t conjure a storm that would pull you and me together at the expense of your mother.” He reached across the space between him without thinking and wrapped his hand around her forearm.
    The moment they touched, the world stood still. Neither of them moved to break the contact this time. He gazed into her eyes, feeling as though they were already connected on a deep personal level. Her soul seemed to bare itself to him through the pools of blue. If he never moved from this position, he would die a happy man.
    Finally she cocked her head to one side and smiled. “It’s not avoidable, is it?”
    He grinned back. “No.”
    “We’re too different. I can’t leave here and you can’t stay. It will make things that much worse for us.” She stated these facts with a resigned tone.
    “Fate has a way of making things work out. I don’t know Her plan, but I do know She knows what She is doing. We have no choice but to trust Her judgment and follow Her lead. Whether we stay or leave will become clear to us in time. I’m as sure of that as I am that this storm will in fact release its hold on Siberia eventually, leaving us alive and well beneath her white blanket.” Adonia closed her eyes and tipped her face toward the sky. She inhaled deeply. “Your scent has permeated my space. I can smell nothing but your personal musk. Even the stew has ceased to exist.”
    He chuckled. “I’m afraid I have to disagree with you on that issue. The place assuredly smells only of your sweetness. The flavor of your shampoo is teasing my tongue every time your hair bounces. Your sweet pussy is creaming with desire and filling the room with your pheromones until my cock aches so bad with need, he’s threatening a revolt.”
    She didn’t flinch this time as he used language he knew she was unaccustomed to. Instead she swallowed again and then licked her lips.
    “I’m going to kiss you now. I need to taste your tongue, your lips, your essence…” He leaned forward across the wood, clasping her other arm with his free hand and tugging both wrists away from her face.
    When he held both hands in his palms, steading her against the top of the table, he waited a beat. Her heart rate soared. Her arousal spiked. For all that she was frightened, she was also titillated by his words and actions.
    He closed the distance between them as her lips parted. She might