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her.
    Their gazes locked, and she smiled shyly up at him.
    Malek didn’t return her smile. He just planted a hard kiss on her mouth, his dark, fathomless eyes never leaving her face.
    Katya wrapped her arms around his powerful shoulders and closed her eyes. This was heaven.
    She jerked under his weight, her eyes flying open!
    “What the— ” she blurted out, then gasped, dazed beyond comprehension.
    His expression was stunned for a brief moment until a satisfied glint on his face made her understand what was happening.
    They were shifting involuntarily into their Lycan forms. They were each other’s ones .
    “Are we…” She couldn’t find the rest of her voice as her body stretched and grew.
    “Aye, my lovely,” he said, transforming.
    In their full Lycan forms, they stared into each other’s eyes, Malek’s expression a mixture of possessive pride and contentment.
    Their humans took over and slowly they reverted back to man and woman.
    Katya gaped at him, her eyes wide. “What just happened?”
    “We made love,” he replied dryly.
    “I meant the other thing! I…I shifted involuntarily.”
    “As I. It appears the Lycan Legend has struck again.”
    “This isn’t funny.”
    “I am not laughing.”
    “I don’t understand. That means…that means…” She couldn’t finish her thought.
    “We are soul mates.”
    “How can that be? We hardly know each other.”
    “Souls have an eternal life. We’ve been connected always, since the birth of time. It matters not if our physical forms just met. Our souls have known each other always.”
    “Those are quite the romantic words for a fierce, Lycan warrior.”
    “Do not jest about the Lycan Legend.”
    “We…we just accept our fate?”
    “Is it so hard to care for me?” he asked.
    “Well, I…I like you, so the Universe and its legend must know what it’s doing,” she quipped.
    A hint of a smile softened his handsome features. “ Like . That is how you feel about me?” He paused. “Fascinating.” He tightened his hold around her.
    “Why are you surprised I like you?”
    Malek raised an arrogant brow. “I know you burn with desire for me. I know you yearn for my touch as I yearn for yours. I know you sense me one hundred paces away and feel what I feel. I am not sure I would use like as the word to describe what we feel.”
    “Don’t knock it. It’s what people feel when the compassion begins, the caring, the warmth. Like enhances the attraction and passion. And then comes lo—” Katya froze at what she was about to say.
    “Love?”
    Her gaze wavered under his dark, penetrable stare. “Y-yes.”
    “So you think you may grow to love me?”
    “You’re making fun of me.” She wished they could drop the subject.
    His expression was serious. “I do not jest about things like this.”
    Thunder rolled with the ferocity of a thousand lions roaring in their tent and she stiffened under him. “I…I think the Gods want us to stop talking about this.
    “I think not, but it is late and we need to go to sleep.” Malek rolled over on his side, taking her with him, as he pulled the cover over their bodies. His strong arms clasped around her.
    She was surprised. “Together?”
    “My one will not sleep alone.” He closed his eyes.
    After a short while, his breathing evened and she realised he was asleep.
    It took her a long time to fall asleep. She lay in his arms, sated and warm, wondering how she was going to tell him she was barren.
     

 
     
     
    Chapter Six
     
     
    The next day, Katya woke up to an empty cot. Malek was gone. She glanced around the tent and saw the bread and cheese on a plate for her by the basin. She knew Malek had placed it there and she was warmed by his thoughtfulness. She ate quickly, washed herself, and dressed in her trousers and shirt before she went outside and saw the guards packing up the camp.
    She saw Malek striding toward her and her face warmed. Katya still was unable to believe he was her one.
    “We leave