““There’s something here,” he said, searching her gaze. “Something beneath all the pheromones dancing about whenever we’re within reaching distance of each other. Something beyond this…this crazy hunger.” “I know,” she said in a hushed whisper, the words barely reaching his ears over the sound of the wind and the snap of the sails. He leaned his head down until his forehead brushed hers. “I want both,” he said. “The friendship and the hunger.” Her eyes were luminous pools of the deepest sea green as she looked into his, and he thought he could fall into them and never surface again and die a happy man. “Explore them with me,” he said, “and let’s see where it leads. That’s all I’m asking.””
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