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hungry.”
    He turned them away from the tiger’s enclosure and got them
walking toward the walkway that would take them to the snow leopards. “The
question is, when am I not hungry? You put food in front of me, I’ll eat it.”
    “If I ate like that I’d be the size of a house. It’s already
bad enough I’m so short.”
    Jase pulled slightly away from Katarina and looked her up
and down. “I can honestly say you’re perfect the way you are. If we weren’t in
such a public place, I would show you exactly what the sight of you does to
me.”
    He dragged in a deep breath, detecting Katarina’s arousal in
her scent. He’d first smelled it while he’d kissed her. He was getting to her,
which was fine with him. She did the same to him. His cock was semi-hard and it
wouldn’t take much for it to become a full-blown erection. That one little
taste of her had him longing for more. Jase had no idea what else was on the
agenda for their date, but he hoped at some point he could get her alone
somewhere so he could continue where their kiss had abruptly ended.
    At the snow leopard’s enclosure, one of the large cats came
up to the fence to investigate them. Jase knew full well it had to do with his
scent. He didn’t smell like a human. The snow leopard, as well as the tiger,
could detect the cougar in him. At least this large cat wasn’t trying to
intimidate him. It was a female, whereas the tiger had been male, which would
have had him trying to stake his territory.
    They finished looking at the rest of the animals, which took
an hour, then headed out to the parking lot. Jase had never been to the zoo
before. He found he didn’t mind it as much as he’d thought he would. Being a
cougar shifter, he hated to see animals that were meant to be out in the wild
locked up. The enclosures, though, had been made specifically for each species,
trying to mimic as much of their natural territory as possible. So they weren’t
as terrible as he’d thought they’d be.
    Once Jase and Katarina reached the cars, he asked, “Where to
now?”
    “Time to eat. You can follow me.”
    “You’re not going to tell me where we’re going beforehand?”
    “No. That way if you don’t like it, you won’t have the
chance to try to change my mind about going there.”
    Jase shook his head. “I wouldn’t since I said you could plan
our date, but lead on.”
    They both got into their cars. Katarina backed up, then
waited for Jase to pull behind her before she drove to the lot’s exit.
    On their way to their next destination, he had no problem
following her. He saw her checking her rearview mirror every once in a while to
make sure he was still there.
    So far Jase had no complaints about the date. If Katarina
thought the zoo would be enough to scare him off, she was mistaken. It would
take a lot more than that. He had to laugh when he saw her pull into the
parking lot of a place that from the outside looked like a dive. He couldn’t
help thinking she’d picked that restaurant as a test to see if he would say
something about her choices. If he did, he was more than sure she would use
that as an opportunity to get rid of him. For some reason, he didn’t think she
trusted him.
    After parking, Jase met up with Katarina at her car. She
looked at him as they headed toward the entrance. “Have you ever been here
before?”
    “No, but I’m always willing to try new things.”
    They stepped through the door and Jase’s assumption of it
being a dive was proven correct by the interior. It was kind of dark and dingy.
The bar took up a lot of the open space. All the seats there were taken. The TV
hanging on the wall above it played the sports channel. No hostess or host came
to greet them, and there was no sign saying for them to wait to be seated.
    Katarina had obviously been there before. She headed for one
of the tables near the back. Once she selected the one she wanted, she took a
seat. Jase sat across from her. She seemed to be watching