Mikal leaned in and kissed the hickey he’d given her the night before. “Even if you reject us, throw us out of your home, your life, you will never be just a one-night stand. Not to us.” Xyla looked between the two men. She hadn’t spoken her questions aloud. She knew she hadn’t. Ivec are mind readers? “Only when we share an emotional bond.” Rish kissed the mark he’d left on the other side of her neck. Hunching in on herself, she swallowed past the lump in her throat. “Is it something you can control or are my thoughts just there in your head now that we’ve had sex?” Both men smiled. Rish said, “We need an emotional bond, not a physical one. And we could read your mind well before last night. We had strong feelings for you back in school.” “But to answer your question,” Mikal said, placing his hand on her leg just above her knee. “We can block out your ordinary, calm thoughts but those connected with intense feelings we hear almost as if they are our own.”
