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“If my soul didn’t burn for you, if my heart wasn’t already yours, I’d never let this happen.”
    She grabbed a fistful of mane and squeezed his sides with her thighs, trying to keep balance.
    “Either way,” she said. “This is definitely something I’ve never done before, and I’ve done a whole hell of a lot.”
    “I’m glad you’re entertained,” he hissed, cresting a slight hill and sinking down low into a depression. The place they were probably held a seasonal river when the rains came, but right now it was just a slightly damper, much lower, place in the desert. “This will keep us out of sight, or at least make it harder to spot.”
    “And if they’re in that old pickup, they’d be crazy to try and come down that hill. That old thing would fall end over end,” Cass said, reluctantly stepping off her mount. “Do I have to?”
    She laughed at the growl that answered her. “Oh lighten up, Lex,” she slapped his hind quarter. “Live a little. I doubt you’d whine so much if I were riding you the other way.”
    He froze. “But I’m so much bigger, how would that—”
    Cass shot him a confused glance. “I thought you said you weren’t an alien back there.”
    “But riding,” he said, “oh... Oh, that sort of riding.” As he shifted back to his deliciously naked human form, he was laughing, and to Cass’s delight, blushing slightly.
    “Two things,” she said. “First – don’t you ever get cold? I mean I don’t mind the naked calendar guy thing, but seriously, it’s kinda chilly out here. And second, I can now die happy – I made a magic lion blush.”
    “There it is again,” Lex growled, though he was still grinning. “Magic lion. It’s like you think I am the strange one.”
    “What’s that supposed to mean?” Cass cracked her back, and rolled down the legs on her jeans. She’d rolled them up to keep from tripping Lex while he was dashing along the desert, but now that they were still again, the chill was growing. “Did you find out about my Super Mario lunchbox collection?”
    “You’re still trying to get me to let on that I have no idea what you’re talking about, but we definitely had Nintendo. We’re normal, mostly, we just you know, turn into animals from time to time. Do you have any metal ones?”
    A puff came out of Cass’s nose. “I do not have a lunchbox collection. I might not have tricked you into revealing that magic lions don’t know anything about pop culture, but really you just fell into the nerd trap.”
    He shook his head, smiling fondly, but distantly, as though his mind was far away, somewhere else entirely.
    Shortly, he got up and brushed the dirt from his legs. “Also, no, I don’t get cold.” He grabbed her hand and placed it directly over his heart. “Hot natured.”
    She curled her fingers against his bare skin, the warmth penetrating her palm. “Be back,” he whispered, kissed her wrist, and disappeared into the night.
    Huddling her knees to her chest and wrapping her arms around them, Cass had a chance to think for the first time since the great escape. Which really, wasn’t so amazing after all, thinking back on what had happened. They made a distraction, they ran, and that was the end of it. Then again, she’d somehow communicated with a lion, who at the time, she was fairly certain was just a lion , and gotten free.
    But for what?
    She knew Lyle wasn’t going to just let her go. It wasn’t even the money she owed him for all those bails he posted and payments he made to get people off her back. “I was so stupid,” she berated herself. “What the hell would a guy like Lyle want with a twenty year old who’d just run away from life? I shoulda seen it. Shoulda known.”
    She dug the toe of her boot into a crack in the dirt below herself, and leaned backward, relaxing against the small pile of stuff they had with them – mostly just her lion taming equipment and a few extra clothes she always kept in the Indiana