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the reverberation she was having trouble with.
    “Ph… illip .” She pronounced slowly but got the sound right. Her accent was more noticeable, and she swallowed some of her sounds. He doubted that he could do as well with her native tongue.
    Phillip watched her mouth form around his name. When the sound came from her lips, a spear of desire shot right to his cock. He could not help but capture those lips in a rough kiss. Alika seemed surprised, but she did not shy away from him. Instead, she slipped her fingers along his head and then balled her hands in her hair. She pulled him down on top of her. He was afraid that he would crush her because she was so small compared to him, even when he was human. Alika plunged her tongue into his mouth until they touched and tasted one another. His prick firmed up at the thought of entering her once more, this time while he was human. When he saw the makeshift headstone he had erected for his beloved, all the passion drained from him. Guilt sufficed his being knowing that he had desecrated Kaylana’s grave. Phillip sat up and shuffled off of Alika . The spell had been broken. He and Kaylana had been happy together until her father had declared him the devil against the tribe. His beloved had sacrificed herself for him, and he had nearly lost his mind.
    Phillip held his face in his hands and could not stop the tears. Kaylana’s beautiful smile warmed him. What would it have been like to be in the afterlife with the woman he loved? All because of him, she was dead. If only he had never come into her life. Those were questions he had asked himself for a long time. Four centuries of nights had passed, and he was alone.
    A soft hand caressed his cheek. He glanced up and saw Alika peering at him with concern and curiosity in her eyes. “Why do you cry? Is it for the one who lies underneath these stones? The one you care about?”
    “How do you know about her?” he asked.
    She ran her fingers along his temple. “I saw her in your mind. Your thoughts are open to me more so when you’re in your second form. Now it’s much more guarded. I saw your mate and felt how you cared for her. This is where you brought her because this was her favorite place to look out over the land.”
    He nodded. “Yes. There used to be blue flowers that grew here along with wild blackberries. She loved them. We would climb up here and eat them until the juice stained our faces. Her father didn’t approve of me. He saw me as one who wanted to rip his world apart because I was a soldier. It was my fault she died, trying to save me from her father. When she died I went insane, killed a few of the tribe, and then he cursed me. Sometimes I come here to think and be close to her.”
    “That’s why you chose these caves, because you wished to be close to her?”
    “Yeah.”
    “But she has gone beyond. Why do you hang on to the past?”
    “Don’t you have feelings? Haven’t you ever loved anyone? Do you know the emotion?” The anger rising in him was tricky to keep out of his voice. With all the questions she asked, he wondered if she even had a heart.
    Alika placed a finger on his lips and drew one of his hands to her chest. “I have two hearts. L- lov - ve ,” she tripped over the word, “we call it trima , but from what I’ve garnered from your thoughts and feelings it is the same thing. This emotion makes you see stars and fills your world so that you see nothing else. I had a mate, a very long time ago, and he lost himself to the canis …the beast inside of my people. I share your loss and came here to show my respect toward the one who you lost and to the mate I will never see again. You remind me of him in some ways. You feel my hearts beat, Phillip, and know that we are not so different.”
    She brushed her lips over his. They were sweet, and it lifted his dark mood. He had not expected to hear that she once had a man who loved her, so she understood his heartache. Alika pulled away and left him