“WHY DON’T YOU KEEP scouting around for stones to add to that collection you’re working on while I go talk to Noel?”
“Sure.” Matthew walked over to an area they hadn’t explored yet.
While Matt shoved more rocks in his pockets, Elise walked back over to where Noel sat on a huge, smooth boulder. She hated seeing that scowl on his face. It was a look that had taken over his handsome features the morning after they woke up in the same bed.
At first, she thought he had regretted coming to her that evening, but it had been two nights since then and each night he had come back to her bedroom. Their sessions of lovemaking only seemed to bind her more tightly to the man and the jungle in which he lived.
There still was no sign of Matt’s powers, though Elise let the subject lay for now. There we
