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haven’t noticed.”
    “Shut the fuck up!” Damien snarled without thinking, then ground his teeth when he saw he’d startled her. “She’s female, isn’t she?”
    “But not one of ours—not a catkin.”
    Damien tamped his irritation with an effort. She looked close enough his cock was having trouble grasping that those pretty little petals of hers were off limits.
    It was strange that the terra—whatever—looked so much like them.
    And damned disconcerting. He had to keep reminding himself that she was an above creature, however intelligent she seemed, not a mer.
    The expression that crossed her face when he waved the fish at her, as near as he could tell, seemed more of revulsion than interest. He dropped the fish again. Maybe they were grazing creatures? Scooping up a handful of the slimy seaweed, he held the dripping mess up in offering.
    She stared at his hand and then looked at his face. He couldn’t tell anything about her expression that time. Intelligence flickered in her clear blue eyes, though. He stared at them, fascinated. It wasn’t until she blinked and looked down at the tray again that he managed to break the spell. He looked down, trying to decide what she was looking at and discovered his cock had managed to elude captivity. It was standing at attention, peering at her hopefully with its dark eye.
    Resisting the urge to look at Miles to see if he’d noticed, he grasped his cock and shoved it down again, wincing slightly at the pain.
    This was getting him nowhere fast. He couldn’t ‘gentle’ her when she wouldn’t let him come near her and she didn’t seem interested in anything anyway but his cock—and he sure as hell wasn’t putting that anywhere near her no matter how badly the brainless moron wanted to go there.
    Lifting his head, he studied her. She wasn’t shivering anymore, but he couldn’t decide if that was just because she wasn’t cold or if she’d calmed down—or maybe both. As he scanned her, his attention was caught again by something that fascinated him almost as much as the pretty pink petals between her legs—the two little pink nubs surrounded by a slightly lighter pink area right in the center of the globes on her chest. They weren’t hard now like they had been before, or didn’t appear to be as hard as before. They looked just like the milk globes their catkins had—except that the tips were pink instead of blue. He wasn’t sure why he found them so fascinating.
    The thought flashed in his mind before he could prevent it to wonder if they tasted any different from their catkins’ buds. His cock instantly tried to leap up again. He gritted his teeth at the pain that shot through him.
    This wasn’t going well at all!
    “She isn’t going to come to me. She remembers I’m the one that caught her and she’s afraid of me. I’m going to leave this food here and see if she’ll come out and eat.”
    “Maybe if you’d quit waving your cock at her, she would anyway,” Miles said dryly. “Obviously, even if she is flashing for mating, it’s a signal that she isn’t interested in you.”

Chapter Two
     
    Damien turned to glare at Miles. “You were waving your cock at her when I came in,” he said testily.
    Miles shrugged, smiling faintly. “It couldn’t see mine, though.”
    It annoyed the hell out of him that Miles was right and he couldn’t think of anything else to say. After a moment, he pushed the tray a little closer to where she was hiding. She shifted, tensed, flicking a glance behind him. Startled, he realized she was studying the door.
    “Did you see that?”
    “It knows that’s where you came in.”
    Damien nodded, frowning. Maybe it was nothing but that, but he’d gotten the strangest sense that she was examining it … as if she was trying to figure out how he’d opened it.
    She opened her mouth as he started to rise. He tensed, bracing himself for the painful sonic blast she’d emitted before. Instead, she moved her lips and