" I guess that's true and you - cats or dogs?" He said."Oh, I am squarely a cat person. I love the fact that you always know what a cat wants. But thi...k about this, if cats were twice as large, they would probably eat small people, and be illegal. If dogs were three times their present size, they would still be loved."Dolly back, fade to black.The next scene opens with a startling image: Marla Stiebert, lying face first on a bed, arms tied to the posts, blindfolded, pillows piled under her. The hypersensitive flesh responding.The air rushes around his arm as he draws back. Farther this time I can tell. His hand lands roughly, nails catching the curve of my cheek. Though I was clenching my muscles as tightly as I could my muscles still reverberate. I feel the tears begin streaming down my face. They are cool rivers against my scalding skin. I am burning from the inside out. He has made me flame, a phoenix. I would wipe them away normally, but I have my instructions. My hands are. “What? Yes, of course. Why?” I sat up, horrified.“I can’t find your hard-on.”First, I slapped his arm, then reached down and pushed my hand into his knickers and took hold of his erect penis.“You’re looking in the wrong place, that’s why. My hard-on is here.”Luke crushed me to him, lifting me fully onto his lap as he knelt on the bed. His kisses covering my face, glancing over my lips. I kept my hand between us, stroking him, reaching further I cupped his balls, as I had seen him do and lifted. They didn’t go near Werewolves or Were-anything for that matter. The girls left those to the big guys, or to the vamps. The unpredictable mongrels weren’t their problem. But the girl’s were more than feared in the vampire community. And the thought made Sage’s fingertips tingle. She needed a hunt right now. She needed to feel one of those bastards’s bleed. Needed to feel her heart beat fast and see the look in their faces when they realize that she was not in fact a lost young woman who had.