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    He backstroked a few yards and floated some more, until he heard the wolf barking.
    Lifting his head, he saw that she was at the shoreline, barking at him and pawing at the sand. His heartrate ramped up. What’s going on? Trouble?
    No. I want you here.
    Why?
    Just come. She pawed the sand a few more times and added a series of stronger yips.
    Curious, he swam swiftly to shore, catching a ride on a couple of waves until he could stand up and walk through the surf.
    She sat on her haunches, staring up at him. But even in her wolf form, her gaze drifted all over his body, lingering more than once on his cock. Of course the cold water wasn’t helping a proper presentation, but she’d already seen and felt him so she could let her memory figure things out.
    As he left the water and drew close, he was about to ask her again what was going on, when she charged him. She turned at the last second and nipped the back of his knee.
    “Ow! Hey!”
    She turned and spread her front legs, butt in the air, tail wagging.
    Well, hell. She wanted him to play.
    He took her cue and charged her back. She spun and took off on a hard lope across the wetter part of the sand, running as fast as she could. Some long-forgotten part of him awakened in that moment, and he ran after her, putting on some of his vampire speed.
    But every time he thought he might catch her, she bounded thirty feet in the air, hit the side of the cliff with both back paws simultaneously, then bounded off in the opposite direction. She raced across the sand.
    He’d been running so fast he could hardly catch his breath, but he didn’t stop. The chase had worked his blood up and he followed her, his lungs pumping to keep up with how much he exerted himself.
    But he still couldn’t catch her.
    To hell with this , he thought. He levitated and added more speed until he caught her mid-flight. He dragged her through the air to the sand and pinned her.
    She shifted beneath him, laughing and struggling to breathe. “That was wonderful, Zane. Thank you. I needed that.”
    With one hand on her chest keeping her in place, he used his free hand to run his fingers over her V-shaped fur. And as his breathing eased up, his fingers traveled so that he was playing with her breasts and making her nipples tighten into firm buds.
    One thing led to another and he entered her body, making love to her again. He held her gaze this time, wanting to watch her come, to watch pleasure pass over her features and to see her breathing once more grow ragged with passion.
    As she came, she held him tight and cried out. He even released a second time, pouring all that he was as a man deep inside her.
    Later, he watched her rinse off again, sensing she was much more relaxed.
    Hell, so, was he.
    He even chuckled. He couldn’t remember the last time he’d smiled this much or even laughed.
    And he had no pain.
    He grew very still at this last thought. Despite his resistance to a relationship of any kind, he valued the sudden, dramatic cessation of decades of crippling stomach pain.
    And Olivia, part human, part shifter, had brought this to him.
    But who was this blood rose who lived across from the Elf Lords Hideaway, who tracked him in a strange way she called ‘ghosting’, and who’d saved his life because of a cloaking ability she possessed?
    “We should get going,” he called to her.
    She returned to her clothes and used her jeans to dry herself off. For a long, ridiculous moment, he watched her and lusted all over again. She was beautiful and built, with large breasts and full hips. She was also tall for a woman of any species and strong. If ever a woman had been physically made for him, Olivia fit the bill.
    “I like that you’re looking,” she said, hooking her bra. “But it’s going to take you some time to get those leathers and boots back on. You should probably get started.”
    He chuckled. Again. He wasn’t even sure why, except that she addressed him without the slightest awe