need for such measures is slim.
Unfortunately, that night, Devan was slacking in his duties. He
was apparently too caught up in the moment to bother caring about
what anyone else was doing. So when she came into the bar looking
the way she did, I pounced without a single thought about the
consequences. If I had been in control of myself, I would have been
able to smell the magic on her, the way I had smelled it last night.
No matter how powerful she is, she can never hide her smell, not
from us.
She is beautiful, there is no doubt, and even sober I might have
pursued her for a little while. She is tall, Amazonian tall, with long,
blood-red, curly hair. Her body is lean and curvy, exactly the thing
that makes my loins ache. I really hate the women of this
generation. They are either skeleton thin or morbidly obese. There
seems to be no middle ground anymore. Whoever said that a woman
was only beautiful if her bones poked through her skin was insane.
With no one to stop me, I bedded her with promises that she
would not be a one-night stand, that I would call her the next
morning, that I would do a lot of things that even then I knew I
would never do. The sex had been great—what I could remember of
it, anyway.
Yet, I barely paid any attention to her the next morning when my
brother snuck into my room to wake me. Once I paid my bill at the
front desk and was on my way back home, she became no more
than a fleeting memory.
Apparently, I had made an impression on her. Last night she had
shown up at my doorstep—pissed. How she had known where I
lived, is beyond me. I had only moved into the cabin that week. The
cabin had been one of the many homes we had inherited when we
had bought back the rest of our land. The family that had previously
owned the land had built the small log cabin as a vacation home.
My name isn’t even on the deed to the house, my older brother,
Darius’, name is. I know I hadn’t given her his name. She had to have
used magic to find me. If she did, her powers are greater than mine
are. I can find my family and pack mates because of our blood and
our bond, but some random woman I had slept with once was lost to