As she climaxed from their impassioned mating, all she could hope wasthat his seed had planted itself fully.He rose, extending his hand in a surprisin...ly humanlike gesture. Kaidentook it, touched by an intense sense of connection as their hands met.Beside this, her fleeting village trysts had been wan and emotionlessaffairs. This creature was Alpha, he was Mate, and she knew then that shewould love him forever.Something resembling human awareness returned as he led her back to hisden- no, to. She was melting and not from the warm sun beating down on her. His kisses had stirred the fire, increasing in intensity, becoming all-consuming.Forgetting all about lunch, a more desperate hunger had been sparked and needed to be sated.Ron’s libido likewise was aroused and he too needed something more than any local food establishment could satisfy. “Let’s go somewhere private. I’m starving and ready to eat you alive, baby.”“We can’t, I have to be back in the office in like forty-five. A strange thing happened as Brent was explaining all of this. Seers started to accompany the motley crew on their short walk, some of them frowning at Brent's words, some of them almost gasping in shock at them. At first Jake thought they were offended at Brent's betrayal, but several different times Jake caught a look of what could only be described as wild hope in a Seer's visage before it was quickly muted and a blank expression drawn over once again. This was disturbing. Perhaps there was a. I was thinking, however, that Cassie was going to learn a lesson about discretion on her next visit, and that she'd probably never speak to him again.I turned to the girl, still sitting half out of the SUV. "Katy, I gather you aren't going along with this voluntarily?"She was still pissed, and it showed in her voice, but it didn't override her manners, "No, Sir, Mr. Brenneman! He said we were going for a ride, and then, when we were on the highway, he drops this bomb on me about coming to see.