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yanked his hand back and
    watched as she pulled her hands away too. Light blinded him. Water
    streamed out the corner of his eyes. Another of the witch’s tricks.

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Chapter Five
    The pain was going to make her pass out. The smell of burned skin
    scorched her nostrils. The roaring in her ears got louder.
    ‚Help me,‛ she pleaded with the thing standing in front of her. Her
    chest was going to burst. Her lungs burned with the need to take in a
    breath but the pain stopped her from doing it. Every beat of her heart sent
    the pain higher. It closed her throat and radiated down her arms.
    Just as quickly as the pain started, it stopped. She lifted her hand to
    her chest. The skin was tender but nothing too—. Oh hell. What was that?
    She tentatively touched the raised flesh again. A burn mark?
    ‚What the hell did you do to me?‛ Looking down, she saw the
    darkened outline of a heart. It looked like a brand. She touched the
    sensitive scorched skin. It wasn’t kind of like a brand. It was a brand.
    He walked up to her and ripped her shirt. The buttons popped off
    and scattered onto the floor. His eyes narrowed as he examined the mark.
    He must have decided her breasts were more important because his eyes
    dipped down to inspect them.
    ‚Get your hands off of me, you perv.‛ She slapped at his hands.
    ‚Mates don’t deny each other,‛ he said, gripping her tighter.
    ‚I told you I’m not your mate.‛ There were a lot of things going on
    here but she knew for a fact that she was not his anything. He wasn’t even
    human. And one of her biggest standards was that a guy had to be human.
    ‚Shall I prove it to you?‛
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    She didn’t like that sound of that. Mates… well they mated. And she
    doubted that would be a good idea. What if he didn’t have the right
    equipment? Even if he did, what if it wasn’t the right size? That could
    prove to be painful… for her. She tried not to look down between his legs
    but couldn’t help it. The pale black tattoos that covered his face and upper
    chest flowed all the way down his body and even up over his large penis.
    What the hell was she doing? She wasn’t actually considering sex
    with this cat man. She wasn’t that desperate.
    ‚Look, I’m just saying that I’m human and you obviously are
    umm… umm… not.‛
    ‚That doesn’t seem to matter,‛ he said, pointing down at his clearly
    evident erection.
    Okay, so maybe he did have the right equipment. That still didn’t
    mean she was going to do it with him. She liked animals but not like that.
    ‚It matters to me.‛
    ‚Please buckle in and prepare to land,‛ an automated voice
    announced in the ship.
    ‚There’s only one seat on this cruiser so you need to sit on my lap.‛
    He turned the chair around and sat down.
    ‚Not on your life, buddy.‛
    ‚That’s fine with me. But if this thing has any problems with the
    landing, you’re going to hit the ceiling. Maybe get knocked out again.‛
    And find herself in a worse situation than she was in now.
    Narrowing her eyes at him, she moved around the chair and sat on the
    front of his legs near his knees. As her hands ran across the soft fur, the
    muscles in his legs tightened.
    He wrapped an arm around her and pulled her back onto his lap.
    Her back was in full contact with his chest. His erection pressed into the
    lower part of her back. He was big. She could feel the length of him. No
    mating with him. Definitely, no mating.
    ‚This does not mean that I am your mate.‛ She kept telling herself
    that but from the wetness pooling in her panties, her body wasn’t buying
    it.
    ‚Whatever you say,‛ he whispered against the back of her neck.
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    The hairs on the back of her neck strained. It took everything in her
    not to let a shiver race down her spine. She watched through the large
    window as the ground got further and further