She discovered once she’d managed to focus her eyes and look around, though, that there was no sign of the temple and the terrain looked entirely different. There was a pool of water in a rock basin not far from where he’d halted the beast. He dismounted with her clutched against his chest, strode to the pool and dropped her in. Brandi let out a shriek and commenced gyrating like a cat trying to manipulate its body to land on its feet. She only had time for a couple of gyrations, however, before she hit the water and went under. She didn’t know what was more startling—being dunked at all after being rudely awakened or the fact that the water was heated to the point that she thought for a few moments that she would be cooked alive. When she managed to struggle back to the surface, it was in time to get a full view of Tank stark naked as he stepped into the pool. He looked impossibly bigger naked—harder, more muscular—hung like a stallion! She dismissed that thought. She’d seen stallions that weren’t hung like he was.
