You pushed him away.” She lifts her shoulders again in another small, careless shrug. “I’m not going to say being mated to Raahosh is nothing but daisies and kittens. Sometimes you have to make a relationship work. And I’m just saying maybe you should have tried a little harder. He lost his kit, too, you know.
I’m an awful person,” I whisper to him, because right now I’m imagining pouring handfuls of trail mix all over my body to see if he’ll tongue me everywhere.
HASSEN: Perhaps I will never get over the shame of disappointment, but it will not destroy me.
Stay with me,” he says in a low voice. “I have waited endless days to see your face again, and I prefer it awake.
I am interested in you. All of you. Your sad eyes, your soft smiles, your tears, your courage, and your worries. I am at your side now, and I will be at your side until you tell me to leave. I do not need a khui to tell me who is the mate for me. You are mine and I will take every moment with you as a gift.
From now until my spirit departs this plane, there shall be none for me but her.
The only thing I want to do with you and that water is hold your head under until you twitch.
A Great Dane can still make a Chihuahua pregnant,” Liz points out. “Guess which one you are.
Even if tomorrow goes to hell, we have today. Maybe I need to claim today for myself. Maybe I need to make a few memories to carry me through the bad things that are certain to be ahead.
Worrying about what might happen does nothing but make you crazy.
Her flesh is almost completely hairless, save for the long, braided locks on her crown and a small tuft between her thighs that’s revealed as I pull her leathers from her. I snort with amusement at that small tuft. Adorable. Adorable and nonsensical.
I am not giving up on you even if you have given up on yourself.
You are mine. That is all you need to know. If you are taken, I will come after you. If you are sick, I will never leave your side. If you leave, I will follow. You will never be without me, because I will come after you. Know this.
She is making me resonate. She is mine.
And then I am shocked anew as my khui resonates inside me. My inward being, which has lain dormant for so long, which recognizes no mate amongst my people? It vibrates and sings at the sight of this new creature. I stare at it.
And even if you did not come back to me, if you were happy, I could live with that. It is your sadness that tears me apart.
Because I will be at your side every moment of every day. When you frown, I will give you mouth-matings until you smile again. When you are sad, I will hold you close until you are happy again. When we sleep, it will be together, under the same furs.
Does a girl in the forest stink if there’s no one around to smell her?
I’m going to try and sleep off some of this migraine. Wake me if a chocolate bar shows up and wants to cuddle.
I do not hate you.” Hate is the furthest thing I feel for her. But I know that trying to hold Asha is like trying to hold a handful of snow – the tighter I grip, the more she will trickle between my fingers and disappear.