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building collapses.”
    She leaned her head back against his shoulder and closed her eyes. It made horrible sense. “What about the wolf that tried to attack me?”
    “A rogue teen. They have been hunting and hounding your people into the evacuation sites. It is a test of manhood for them.” He slipped free of her and a rush of their combined fluids ran down her inner thigh.
    She gasped, a hot blush ran across her face and upper chest. “Does that always happen?”
    He laughed and helped her to her feet. He turned her and gave her a kiss that had her clinging to him again. “You will get used to it.”
    Sophie licked her lips, taking the taste of him into her. His body was as naked as hers and aside from some unusual musculature, he seemed very compatible to her own body. “Why me?”
    He smiled and cupped her jaw line. “Why not you? You eluded capture, made it cross country in a dress designed for the bedroom and still kept your wits about you when confronted by a creature who threatened your life. I am guessing that you have all the requisites for a Sethen mate or my body would not react this way to yours.”
    “Do I get a choice in the matter?” Her plaintive voice sounded whiney even to her own ears.
    “You already made your choice. If you were not attracted to me, your body would not have been sending signals to draw me to you. It was most insistent.” He nuzzled her neck, behind her ear and down her torso.
    She shivered as he sucked on each nipple in turn. He certainly seemed to know what he was doing. As he drew at her breast, he pulled away and she saw the flash of fangs. He was careful with them, but she touched her shoulder and found the marks he had left behind. They could go through skin as easily as a knife.
    She was rocking with his suction, the grazing of his teeth adding to her sensual haze. T’bir stroked his fingers against her opening before sliding them inside and stroking her with two fingers and her clit was rubbed by his thumb.
    Her body was still sensitive and she screamed when her clit throbbed and a heated release took her. Her knees gave way and she fell against him.
    “Commander!” a voice came through the woods. “Agent N’lien has sent a skimmer for you, they are waiting five hundred metres to the north.”
    T’bir groaned and pressed his forehead between her breasts. “Acknowledged. We will be there in a few minutes.”
    “Oh God. They know…” Heat ran through her skin, dying her pink.
    “You are very vocal and very red.” His smile was pure devilish male. “Get dressed and we will find your grandmother.”
    He dressed himself and helped her into her clothing after she had rinsed away the residue of their first coupling.
    T’bir wrapped his arm around her waist and led her through the forest to the humming skimmer full of Sethen and humans. The humans were dirty, battered and scared, but a few managed a sneer for Sophie as she entered the skimmer.
    One even muttered, “Fuck your way to freedom, why didn’t I think of that?”
    Ashamed, Sophie stood against the rails and watched the landscape slide by. There was the spot she had been hauled out of the water, there was the river that had transported her, the bridge that she had jumped from and the buildings that now showed obvious evidence of earthquake.
    T’bir kept his arm around her and his hand stroked her hair in a soothing manner. “Soon. You will be safe soon and nothing they say can change the one fact that you are mine and I am yours.”
    His low murmur calmed her, buoyed her spirits. He spoke in low tones to an officer who used the com to issue some directives. Soon they were landing in the front yard of the evacuation centre and a beloved and familiar face was walking out of a crowd toward her.
    “Gran!” She went from dejection to elation in that moment. As the door to the skimmer opened, she bolted down and flung herself into the arms of the woman who had raised her.
    “Sophie! Oh I am so happy to see