Just great.Wonderful.Fantastic.Apparentlyshe couldn’t even have a private horny zombie crisis without bothKindredmales detecting it like bloodhounds.
“Cassie does not needanything,” she said tightly.“I’mfine—Ijust slipped, that’s all.”
Ravik made a low, disbelieving sound.
“Cassie smells like need,” he rumbled.“Smellslike she did when she was riding my cock.”
“That’s enough,Ravik,” she snapped, opening her eyes again.“We’renot talking about that—okay?”
Severin set the bowls down slowly.
“Cassandra, are you in pain?”he asked.
She lifted her chin.
“No.”
“Are you dizzy?”
“Not a bit.”
“Is your body temperature rising?”
“Probably, but that’s nothing new.”Shetried to let go of the sink and discovered that her knees felt alarmingly unreliable.Soshe kept holding on.“Hotflashes are kind of my thing lately, in case you forgot.”
“This doesnotsmell like a hot flash,”Raviksaid.
Cassie looked over her shoulder at him.
“And you arenothelping.”
The bigBeastKindredimmediately looked contrite, which would have been sweet if she hadn’t been about two seconds away from either screaming or climbing him like a tree.God, she felt like she was going crazy inside!
But she couldn’t show it.
“Sorry,” the bigBeastKindredsaid, his broad shoulders slumping.
Cassie immediately felt bad—she hated hurting his feelings.Hesounded so earnest and so careful and so much more like himself than he had earlier.Hisgolden eyes were mostly clear now, though she could still see a faint haze at the edges.
Ravik was fighting his way back, piece by piece, and somehow that made her want him even more.Notjust because he was huge and warm and protective— though he definitely was all those things—but because he was trying so hard to connect with her.
And because her body apparently wanted to reward him for that in a very sexual way.Hermind began to fill with fantasies and she immediately pushed them away.
No, nope—not going there.Don’teven think about it.
But she couldn’t help remembering the feeling of being impaled on his giant cock and the way he’d teased her clit until she came for him…or the night before whenSeverinhad been sucking her nipples whileRavikfingered her…Or?—
No, there she went again.Shehad to stop this, damn it!Whatwas wrong with her?
The twoKindredwere watching silently as she struggled with herself andSeverin’sgaze had sharpened in that way she was beginning to recognize—that was his scientist look.Theone that made her feel like he was reading every heart beat, every flushed inch of skin, and every embarrassing reaction she was trying and failing to hide.
“Cassandra, are you aroused?”he asked quietly.
Cassie glared at him.
“That isnota polite question,” she snapped.
“No,” he admitted.“Butit may be a medically necessary one.”
