I pulled myself out of her mind, becoming excruciatingly aware of the erratic beat that my heart had adapted. It took a moment or two before it became possible for me to feel my limbs, to feel anything other than my very heartbeat. It was a strange reaction, one that I had never particularly experienced before.
I believed that that was to blame on the fact that I had never quite experienced anything like that before, that I had never been in such close proximity to my mate when she wasn’t unconscious. It had been an experience like no other, an experience that I would value until I got the opportunity to have another.
The way that I reacted to her scared me, made me wonder what else she would be capable of doing, of getting me to do. If my feelings were already this strong for her now,
