Chapter 73

One night while making love, we opened a new link that created a bond. I tried not to think about the one Alexis and I had created or the brief stay at our beach house. It sometimes seems as if it never happened.

One day when I was feeling particularly sad, I realized I could use the links that connected me to those I cared for to see them. I knew this was like spying or looking through someone's open window, but I told myself that my only purpose was to make sure my family was safe.

I began with Paul because I figured he would not know that I was spying. I could tell that he was alive and well in a distant land. I ended the connection before he could detect me. I linked with Tige long enough to sense he had fallen in love with a human who had come to stay in one of the safe houses that he protected.

And then I dared to follow the link that belonged to Alexis. Why I had not thought to do this before I can't say, but I felt him turn toward me the instant I touched our connection. We