~ SASHA ~
The others began to question him then—exploring the decisions he'd made, the information he'd been given, and asking detailed questions about the females he'd had contact with, or Chimera he'd seen in the human world.
She still had her hand on his forearm and she could feel the tension in him, see the disgust with himself on his face—and she recognized the expression. It surprised her. But when one of the men around the fire asked him about a specific female he'd recognized and named, she was thrown back into a memory from their years together in high school…
In the months before they'd finally slept together, they'd discussed it many times. There had been any number of near-misses, nights when they'd found themselves alone unexpectedly, or times when the kiss turned heated and clothes became restrictive.
