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At other times she would feel his frustration while he was off with his knights, and without even knohat he was angry about, she would be flooded by his raw masculinity that roared to wield a battle-ax and actively protect his homeland Via their bond, she experienced masculine emotions and drives she’d never understood before, and was fascinated by the knowledge that he was feeling her more tender, womanly ones

It wasn’t until she asked hiht adopt that she choked on a deep, bitter s of the blackness inside him

They were sitting on the stone bench by the reflecting pool—it had beco a bladder ball in the courtyard A srabbed the ball between his sharp teeth, and when it had burst against his whiskers, he’d shot straight up into the air, yipping frantically, co to scrape the reled helplessly, Lisa had laughed until tears sparkled in her eyes

“I want a puppy,” she said, when her amusement subsided “I’ve alanted one, but our apartment was too small and—”

“No”

Perplexed, her s from him It cloaked her in a deep sense of futility “Why?”

He brooded, staring at the yapping , you know”

“Yes, they do They can live ten to fifteen years, depending on the breed”

“Ten to fifteen years Then they die”

“Yes,” Lisa agreed, unable to fathoed around her “Did you have a puppy once?”

“No Co her away fro children, he led her into a thick copse

“But, Circenn, I don’t et to love it for the time I have with it”

He pushed her back against a tree and covered her ely