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It was tender but there was a strength added to it.

It was innocent and yet she could taste the passion stirring in her soul.

It was a kiss and a promise as well.

It was... everything.

Ash wasn't going to leave just yet.

He meant what he said about her getting sleep. She needed rest.

They'd thrown a whole lot of information at her on her first day in Mystic Mountain, he didn't want to keep heaping it on her.

Especially after he'd announced to her that she was his mate.

Our mate.

He wanted to bite back at his bear for the reminder, but instead, he smiled.

Yes, our mate.

Ash closed his eyes and called up a memory of her face.

She's beautiful.

When do I get to see her?

Ash rolled his eyes.

You can see her through my eyes.

Really?

In the next moment, Ash was disoriented by the change in his vision.

He was still looking at the house but there was a strange sharpness to the lines and edge of the plants and the house. In the darker atmosphere of night, the world around him was much brighter than it was to his human eyes. It was the same reason why it was easier to move around in the darkness as his bear. They just had better vision at night.

I,his bear added in,have better vision in the dark.

Ash shook his head.Are you going to continue to be this big of an ass?

I want time with our mate.

He felt the sharp edge of his bear's voice in his head. This wasn't like wanting to splash around in the river or wanting to sit under a tree and eat their body weight in fermenting apples, getting drunk. His bear wanted to meet Suzannah face to... face.

It's not asking for much.

No, he agreed.It wasn't much in the grand scheme of things, but...

I don't want to scare her.

Ash heard the earnest tone of his bear's thoughts. He understood what he was feeling. He felt it, too.

Neither one of us wants to scare her, Ash agreed.We have our whole lives with her.

The light that she'd left on in the bathroom dimmed and Ash's vision changed back to his own, pushing his bear from his head.

The bear groused to him.My vision is better.

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