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you’re no different.”

 
Sídhí
Music
    Derek snapped his mouth shut, trying to
swallow his growl, but it still rumbled from his chest. “Don’t worry, I’m over
it. Why should I bother with you when I’ve already met a dozen different girls
around camp? Notice given: I am one hundred percent – not – interested in you,”
he said, emphatically throwing her own words back in her face.
    “Okay,” Leah said with a grin.
    Growling, he stood, planning to make a
grand exist and storm off, but his body had other plans. He glanced into Leah's
laughing eyes before she turned her undivided attention to her pop. The synth
crystal, lacing the blood in his body, shuddered with a violent reaction.
    Inhuman music picked that exact moment
to boil through his blood, exploding in an eerie symphony of sound that no one
else heard. His soul shook as the synth crystal roared through his head,
streaking its way around his backbone and into the tips of his toes. He
vibrated with the force of his synth crystal naming Leah as his lifeMate.
    His legs turned liquid and he dropped
in his chair.
    Derek instinctively knew Leah’s synth
crystal hadn’t sung for him, not yet anyway; instinct gave Sídhí many unique
abilities, including knowing whether or not the synth music sang in their
lifeMate’s body. The singing in her body was inevitable, he knew it would
happen. Sídhí had a single lifeMate. For better or worse, she was his lifeMate.
    He grabbed his cup with trembling
fingers, blindly staring into the watered-down liquid, coming to terms with the
otherworldly music that slowly disappeared from his ringing head.
    Already, he felt his body yearning to
touch hers, needing it as desperately as a man in a desert needed water. He
didn’t fight it; he wanted her, now, more than ever. He knew the minute he
looked at her, he would be completely under the spell of the synth crystal,
completely under her spell.
    That’s simply the way it worked. The
synth in a person's blood pulled two perfect people together for a multitude of
reasons. The primary reason – the most important reason – was mental stability.
Most Sídhí lived thousands of years. The joining between lifeMates – the
permanent lifeBond created – gave both immortals a solid, mental base.
    In less than a split second his life
literally turned upside down. He felt bombarded. His hand fisted in his lap,
trembling with the need to touch her. The moment the synth sang, it kicked off
a chemical reaction in his blood, initiating a dozen physical and mental
responses within him. His attraction toward her increased a thousand fold. He
felt a desperate desire to please her and make her happy, and an overwhelming
need to wrap her in a cocoon of safety.
    The chemical stimulated an unswerving
and instantaneous love for her. How the Ancient Ones created a substance that
triggered all those emotional responses and more, he didn't know. He really
didn't care. Sídhí lived for their lifeMate. It was a fact of life.
    He glanced toward his sister and
Brianna, but no one seemed to notice anything wrong with him; he had no outward
signs, except for his slightly dazed look and racing heart.
    Beth and Brianna said goodbye,
excitedly chattering with each other as they headed for their cabin.
    Derek took a deep drink of pop; his
straw sucked air, shattering the stillness hovering over the table. He tried
getting a grip on his racing heart, but Leah’s nearness didn’t help. Her scent
enveloped him, teasing him until he throbbed with yearning.
    “I guess, I’ll head toward the cabin as
well,” Leah said, reaching for her plate.
    It was now or never, Derek steeled his
nerve and looked at her. His raging emotions slammed through him with the force
of a tsunami. Love and desire exploded through every fiber of his being. He
struggled, trying to draw a breath of air, watching her hips sway as she walked
toward the trash can, dumping her empty plate. Swallowing a lump in his throat,
he