Chapter 45: They’re Coming

Grey and I were lying by the stream in each other’s arms. A patch of sunlight filtering through the trees warmed our skin as we dabbled our feet in the cool water of the stream.

“What does my blood smell like to you?” I asked. “Does it smell like another shifter at all?”

“Your blood smells more appealing than any shifter, animal, or human blood that I ever smelled,” he replied. “But it doesn’t affect me the way my father told me your mother’s blood affected him. I can control myself when I smell it.” He squeezed my hand. “You have a lot of your father’s shifter blood in you.”

I rolled onto my side. “Is regular human blood appealing?”

“Some seem more so than others,” he replied. “But I’ve never smelled any blood like yours.”

I kissed him and rubbed my face against his cheek. “Are there other magical creatures in the world?” I tried to make the question sound casual.