Chapter 35: LUCIEN

She's going to run, dammit! I felt it as soon as she had the thought but she pulled that trick with the flowering field as if I were a green wet behind the ears moron who couldn't see through that shit. I gritted my teeth and played along, not letting on that I could see right through her.

I understood her fear and it was my own need to protect her, to make her come to me on her own without fear that was dragging this thing on more than it needed to be. The thing is, I was raised to be this way; can't go against my nature.

Whether she's my woman or just some stranger I happened to run across, I've been raised to protect all members of the immortal world as if they were my own, because they are. And none more so than she!

In the days ahead my whole world will revolve around her, I'm programmed to be that way. Not that I'd become a mindless idiot who follows her around with my tongue hanging out of my head. Or like some of my human brethren, give up my balls and