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“Okay, so I might have boasted just a teensie weensie little bit,” she was muttering beneath her breath as she drew closer to him.
“I’m no horse whisperer, but those men don’t know that. What I need from you, big guy, is just to play along long enough to convince them that I’ve tamed you. You know, not trampling me under hoof right off the bat would be appreciated.”
He tried to stand still, muscles straining and quivering from the adrenaline of the recent fight. He pointed his ears forward, the better to pick up her softly-uttered words.
“So…here’s what I’m gonna do,” she continued to whisper in a soothing tone.
“I’m going to get close enough to touch your nose, okay?”
As if she thought better of it, she amended, “Well, maybe not your nose. How tall are you anyway? More than twice my height, that’s for sure. Your shoulder height is about a head taller than me as it is. You’d have to lean down pretty far for me to reach your nose.”
She was getting closer, her scent growing stronger.
Andros’ nostrils flared.
Something was…wrong.
She wasdoingsomethingto him.
His flesh felt too tight for his skin. He wanted to burst free of his own hide.
Involuntarily, he took a couple steps back, tossing his head nervously.
“Whoa…” she said, pausing in her approach.
“Divina…” one of the men warned.
He sounded like a friend of hers. Did she belong to this male?
Uncontrollable anger coursed through Andros like wildfire. He didn’t like the idea that she belonged to any male.
He shook his head again, confused by his own emotions.
“How about I touch your chest?” she said in that same, soft, coaxing tone.
“Right below your neck. I can reach that, if you let me, of course. Just a brisk little pat. Just to show our audience we’re friends.”
She was close enough now that Andros’s entire body locked into stone at her nearness.
He wished he could see her, but his eyes were still veiled. He could only smell her and hear her.
He knew that she was small from the height of where her words emerged. She must be tiny next to him. Something soft and precious to be protected.
He forced himself to stay still and wait. He wanted to let her know that he wouldn’t hurt her. And though he knew logically that she wouldn’t, likely couldn’t, hurt him, given the difference in their size, his heart still sped up like galloping hooves.
Fearing.
Anticipating.
Longing in equal measure.
And then he felt it, his muscles bunching and flexing at the gentlest contact upon his chest.
“Hi there, beautiful,” she whispered softly, stroking her small hand over his pectorals.
“See, this is easy. Let’s be friends. I’ll treat you so well, baby, you’ll wanna stay with me forever.”
And that was when AndrosFell.
Utterly and completely.
He lowered his head to where she was and chuffed his own wordless request:
Stay.
Stay with me forever.
