Lia stretched out on the bed and reached out to Aiden.
“Just a moment, love,” he murmured.
“I still can’t believe,” she murmured in sleepy desire, “that a gorgeous creature like you would be interested in someone like me.”
“Like what?” he asked. “Remember what I said? Like calls to like. Just as I’m human, yet not, so are you. It remains to be seen what that ‘other’ is, but it doesn’t matter to me. Selkies are known for loving outside their species, but because their lovers are humans, and are mortal, we do not love them forever, just for a night. You, however, are more.”
“Yes, much more,” she muttered, waving her hands over the lush curves her nightgown—which Clarissa had wonderfully packed in one of her many suitcases—clung to.
“Och, that? Come now, love, you can’t truly believe I c
