Leopard 02 - Wild Rain

her a gift more precious than all the money in the world. He’d given her himself.
    Rio felt Elijah place her hand in his, felt his fingers close around hers. Hard. Tight. A lifeline. He drew her to him, beneath the protection of his shoulder, into the shelter of his heart. Rachael tilted her head to look up at him, her black eyes laughing, soft with love. He leaned down, his lips brushing her skin.

    “You did this. You gave me this. You changed my entire life, Rachael.” He whispered the words, meaning them. Astonished by them. How could one person, one woman, have made such a difference?
    She touched his face, her fingertips moving intimately over every feature. “And you changed mine, Rio.”
    Delgrotto cleared his throat to draw their attention to him. He began the ceremony of joining. “The circle of life continues. The lair grows stronger with the joining of these two. No couple stands alone.
    The lair protects the safety of our mated pairs so that the circle of life continues and the lair grows ever stronger . . .”
    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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