“Seth.”
“I’m right here, baby.”
“I can’t take this. I’m starting to really freak out. I don’t want to marry a stranger. I don’t want to become my herd’s ruling alpha.”
His hand came over my shoulders. “I feel the same. But please don’t freak out on me.”
“I can’t help it. Aren’t you feeling anything?”
“Of course, I am.” His voice shuddered. His emotions mirrored mine. Maybe we didn’t have a bond, but the spark between us let us share everything. We even finished each other’s sentences. How could this be wrong? How could Fate have us meet and then turn her back on us?
“Please put your computer down,” I said.
“Wait just a sec. Would you look at this?”
I blinked hard, my response curt. “What?”
“It’s something interesting. Let’s distract ourselves. Do something fun. We’re here only Friday to Sunday. Let’s go a little wild.” He pointed at his laptop screen. “Look.”
His words didn’t comfort me much, but for a moment, I could breathe again. “What is it?” I leaned forward. “You know I’m not patient.”
He smiled and cupped my cheek. “There’s fun things to do.” He kissed me gently again. “I promise I’ll make love to you all night long. But I’ve found something interesting here. It might be a good distraction for us.” He held up his laptop for me to see.
“I don’t want to see it. If you want to go out, I’ll go with you. But what I really want is to spend the rest of my life right here with you in this room. And never leave.”
He squeezed my shoulder. “Would you just take a second and look at this website? And tell me what you think? When I started reading about it, I got a weird feeling. Like déjà vu.”
Trying not to show my frustration, I pulled his computer into my lap. I had to blink several times to clear my vision before I could read it.
The website he’d found was for a nightclub. Big deal. I started to roll my eyes, but as my heart fell, I saw a word. Shifters. He was on the shifter web. And the nightclub was appropriately named: Animals.
A warm shiver crawled slowly down my spine. It was just a nightclub, right? It was for shifters, but that wasn’t anything too interesting.
“What’s so special?” I asked.
“You don’t feel it?”
“Feel what?”
“I don’t know. I told you, it was like déjà vu.”
Another shiver.
“It’s a feeling,” Seth continued. “Like we need to go there. Just to check it out if nothing more.”
“I don’t know.”
“You don’t have any reaction?”
I’d never lied to him. “Well, yeah. Like a shiver. Like maybe I’ve heard about that place before or dreamed about it.”
“Exactly! That’s what I experienced, too.”
“But that doesn’t mean anything, does it?” I asked.
“My beast is stirring. Isn’t yours?”
My unicorn moved inside of me as if suddenly wanting to shift. Then the spot on my forehead began to tingle.
