Page 71 of Owned By Two

It was just about the hottest thing I could imagine.

I tugged one of the big fluffy towels off a rack and began patting myself dry.

I appraised myself in the mirror.

I looked better now than I had my entire life — not because of my weight or size (weight had always been a problem for me) but because I glowed with some deep, internal light that I couldn’t account for…

I supposed it must have been what mating often and hard gave you.

As I turned to wipe down my back and double took when I saw something at the base of my spine.

I thought I saw something there, something small and black.

A mole?

No. I’d never had a mole there.

It didn’t protrude like a mole and was instead flat.

I turned to peer closer at it—

Knock, knock, knock!

“Yelp!” I cried, almost jumping out of my skin.

Someone was at the door.

“Coming!” I said, hastily casting a look over my shoulder at the mark on my back that I knew hadn’t been there before.

I grabbed a robe and pulled it on, tying the cord around my waist tight.

I rolled my hair up in a towel forming a whipped-cream-like arrangement atop my head as I reached for the door.

Blor stood with a broad grin spread across his lips as he looked me over head to toe.

“Do you mind if I come in?” he asked.

“Sure.”

Maybe I should have felt uncomfortable with a relative stranger entering my room with my current state of undress… but I felt comfortable in his presence and knew, somehow, that he would never harm me.

I shut the door behind him. “How can I help?”

His eyes drifted down to the top of my bare chest and he unconsciously licked his lips.

I could seeexactlyhow I could help him.

I didn’t try to cover myself up and instead let a smile curl one corner of my lips.

His tongue poked at the corner of his mouth. “I, uh, wanted to check to make sure you’re okay.”

I shrugged. “Sure I’m okay. Why wouldn’t I be?”

“I… don’t know,” he said.

He managed to yank his eyes from my exposed shoulders and fixed his eyes on mine.

They were purple-gold — exactly the same as Uhti’s… except there was a hint of mischievousness to them that Uhti didn’t possess.

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