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“What’s The Cavern—”
    “Will you come with me?” he interrupted in a rush. “I’m offering
a nice bed. Hot shower…”
    Ooo, he had to play on her weaknesses.
    “Only for the night. And if I think I’m being an
inconvenience for even one nanosecond, I’m outta there.”
    “If you wish,” he said with a nod. “Are you ready to
depart?”
    “Yeah, I just want to make one last trip to the restroom.”
    “I will await you at the cycle.”
    Damn, she was really falling for the way he spoke. It was
too cute. “Okay.”
    She admired the fluid way he moved as he collected their
trash and walked out the door with a stride that said, “Yeah, I’m a man. Back
the fuck off.” A walk like that made a girl’s brain misfire and wonder if he
was as confident in all aspects of his life. At least, it made her wonder.
    She let out her breath in a slow whistle and placed her hand
over her fluttering belly. It was hard to tell what made her more
nervous—staying the night with strangers or being plastered again to Bale’s
delicious backside.
    Didn’t matter really. She was going to face both realities
soon enough.

Chapter Two
     
    Bale adjusted the fit of his leather gloves over his scarred
hands and asked himself for the thousandth time that hour just what the fuck he
was thinking. The moment they had stopped at the drive-thru, he should have
ushered the little human inside and been back on the road before the door
closed behind her.
    So why hadn’t he?
    The too-too pleasant ache in his cock was an obvious answer
but not the only one. The rest, well, he didn’t even want to contemplate. And
those reasons didn’t matter. Ari was just another of the many humans who had
needed his services, and she wasn’t going to be the last. Taking her the last
leg of the journey and seeing her to safety had nothing to do with wanting to
remain in her presence and everything to do with fulfilling his mission. That
was all.
    Right. His dick twitched as Ari stepped out of the
restaurant and glided toward him on her impossibly long legs. Although he
towered over her by a good foot and a half, the female was all legs with gently
swelling hips, and breasts that weren’t too big but large enough to shimmy a
touch with each step.
    Of course the heating of his blood would be easier to ignore
if he hadn’t sensed the answering flare of desire within Ari. For some reason
he couldn’t fathom, she liked what she saw when she looked upon him. She also
had a healthy dose of skepticism too, which he appreciated. When she had gazed
at him with that sultry stare and a soft pout on those full lips, he had almost
forgotten who he was and reached out to feel the texture of her cheek before he
woke from her spell.
    And that hair. In all his days he had never seen anything so
glorious. On his home planet of Skandavia, everyone was light skinned and dark
of hair. Well, almost everyone. Princess Amaryllis with her straight silver
locks had been a much-discussed anomaly among the citizenry. Now that she’d
been mated and marked by her husband, she resembled the people she once had
been destined to rule.
    Ari’s deep-red mane was something special and another wonder
he had beheld since arriving on this mysterious planet called Earth. The thick
strands had dried into a soft tumble of rich maroon, the shade reminding him of
the darhan flowers that grew in the forest of his origins. The splash of
red against the gray-green foliage had always fascinated him with its elegant
beauty and delicate petals. Much as Ari had when he had ridden upon her attack,
only she was no fragile flower.
    His empathic powers had picked up on her terror from a mile
away, but it was her courage at facing her attackers that had flashed like a
bolt of lightning, directing him to her location.
    His two hearts kicked as he recalled the sight of Ari
running with the wet strands of hair blowing around her shoulders like a flag
during battle. The fear in her eyes made