-Hope- He was feeding me! I knew males liked to do this for their mates. It was instinctual. I had just never imagined what it would be like to be on the receiving end. It felt so intimate that I was blushing like crazy. My heart was beating fast, and it felt like the air in the room had suddenly disappeared. It was hard for me to focus on eating when he was watching me with those intense, dark eyes. I had read that to have such a color, you needed to have gone through something terrible—something that broke your soul, essentially. I wanted to know what he had gone through, but it seemed like he didn’t enjoy questions that involved him. So I tried not to ask any. If he wanted me to know, I was sure he would tell me. Instead, I just let him feed me the food. He didn’t use his hands, just

