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Seeing Lia shift into panther form had been something else; he’d suspected from what Arabella had said, that she’d now have some of his abilities, but he’d imagined that to mean she’d have better senses or be able to heal quickly, not be able to change shapes. Now that he took a moment, she even smelled of shifter beneath the cherry blossom scent that she’d had when they first met. He stretched, finding that sometime while the two of them had been asleep, they’d shifted back into human form. Lia’s long limbs were curled around him, and her head rested on his shoulder. Gently, he traced patterns on her back and her eyes fluttered open slowly. He felt slightly guilty for waking her, but the look in her green eyes soon made him forget that.
“What time is it?” she asked, nuzzling into his
