“How do you know I hugged her?” he challenged. I took a big breath in before slowly letting it go. “Because the creature hasn’t given me a moment’s peace since I met her. Her body, her voice, even the scent of her is like blood to a leech with me. I can’t have enough of her, so my senses seek her out with a lupine whine of desperation. I know that you hugged her. A lot.”
