Annie told Tai after she let him in. Her eyes burned from lack of sleep. She couldn’t get her older sister’s disapproving scowls and harsh words out of her head. “I was full of your seed, I don’t know why she suspects anything.” “You reveal a contentment in your eyes, carry it deep in your soul after we’ve been together.” His thumb stroked along her cheekbone, the other hand gripped her hip in a hold so possessive she was sure his handprint would be branded there for eternity. “I feel it too…but you know that.” As an empath, she sensed his emotions but hearing him say it was still a kick in the gut. She wasn’t used to having someone care for her and she liked hearing it. “It was my sister who reported me for saving Quicksilver. She always seems to know.” “Maybe she’s like you, but can’t accept it like you have.” Her brain raced through the implications of that statement, a possibility she’d never before considered. “Even so, it was still a knife in the back.”
