Page 7 of Lucius

“Good. My soulmate is here.”

“Shit, really? Freaking cool! Who?”

He watched as the first tour Jeep pulled away and a second Jeep pulled up, but wouldn’t leave for several minutes. “I don’t know, but not the first one.”

“Okay, so the next female is Brenda, and the third is Sidney. We don’t have any other VIP tours until three. It’s a pretty slow day for tours for some reason.”

“Thanks,” he said.

“Go get her,” Felix whispered.

Lucius moved forward, walking past the females in line to speak to Ezra who was in the driver’s seat of the Jeep. He picked up the peaches and cream scent from the second female in line—Sidney.

After speaking quietly to Ezra about finding his soulmate, he waited until the first tour Jeep was gone and the second had pulled up so Brenda could be escorted to it. Once Sidney was alone, Lucius walked toward her.

Holy crap.

She was gorgeous and his lion wanted to come out to see her himself. It was a study in determination to keep himself human, but he was damn sure not going to scare the hell out of his mate the first time they met.

“Hi,” he said, inhaling silently and picking up that amazing scent.

His heart was going to beat out of his chest if he didn’t calm down.

He just couldn’t believe that his soulmate had come on the tour.

What were the odds of that?

A shadow appearedon the sketchbook paper as Sidney was moving the pencil around the page and she paused and lifted her head.

Holy crap.

The sexiest guy she’d ever seen in her life stood in front of her on the other side of the thick rope that made up the lines for the tour.

“Hi.”

His voice was deep and made something inside her flare to life.

He was tall and broad-shouldered with muscles that strained against the golf shirt he wore, an insignia patch on the chest indicating he was part of the park’s security team.

Her pencil flipped out of her fingers and onto the stone pathway.

Before she could bend to pick it up, he held it out to her, smiling in a way that made her skin prickle with sensation.

Oh yeah, he said hi to her. She should…say hi back.

“Hi.”

His smile widened and a dimple appeared in one cheek.

Be still her freaking beating heart.

“I’m Lucius, part of the security team.”

“I’m Sidney.”

He glanced to the side as the woman in line ahead of Sidney was escorted to the waiting blue camo-colored Jeep. “Is this your first time on the VIP tour?”

“Yes. I got a coupon by email.”

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