“Don’t I?” Diana snapped. Her eyes shot across the atrium to the couple she passed. “Look at those lessers over there. Two rutting animals in ...he street. They so desperately want to spread their lesser DNA and they’ve no clue why.” “For the same reason we’re spreading our DNA, Diana.” Maddi returned to her book. “Oh, it’s not—the—same—reason.” Diana snipped with a staccato rhythm. She looked up the busy atrium. It was the standard comings and goings of college kids. Studying, jogging, eating.. But my world was not normal. Our world was not normal.I felt his hands on me instantly, when I stood naked in front of him.“Lie down,” I said, softly.He did and I lay beside him, but not touching him.Then I reached for his erection and stroked it. He lasted longer this time, maybe ten or fifteen seconds. He groaned my name and in that second I realized we’d forgotten the towel.It was instinct, born from the knowledge that all our sheets were already on the bed, and that we had no spares. His. ”“I’ll take that as a resounding ‘yes’.”“Just don’t get carried away.”“You know me. I’d never push you to do anything you don’t want to do.”“I often wonder how you manage to push me as far as you do.”“Maybe you secretly want it as much as I do. I know once you surrender, your response is beautiful and amazing.”“I only do it because I know how much it means to you.”“You keep saying that. Where are our drinks? Let’s toast to a meaningful vacation, then.”“Asshole,” she said with a smile. The next. ”By the time Taylor was out of the shower, Whitaker had left for the office already. Helpfully, she’d laid out a suit for him to wear, probably thinking, correctly, that he’d have ended up in jeans and a t-shirt if she’d left it up to him.“You look good,” Kara said when he came out to the living room. “Loretta makes good choices.”“Yeah, she does okay.”“Should I go with you?”“No. While it’s probably a lost cause now that they’re digging into my background, just in case, I’d like to keep them off.