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‘forever deal’ and I can’t give you that!”
    Puzzled by her words, I sat up.
    “What’s that supposed to mean?”
    “That’s supposed to mean that … Yes, I want you, Abziarr. I want sex with you - for a while even maybe. But I don’t want a … a bond and I know that ... that is not possible for you. Keela explained to me that the males here … are different - that this hormone that you have in your fangs can kill you if you don’t carry out the ritual that binds you to your mate.”
    “That’s only the case with the Carthians,” I said. “Verkuzzis are different, but it is right that I need you forever. I can sleep with females without there being any risk, as long as there is no bond. But there is a bond between us - a strong one!”
    “You see! It would be best for you to take me back. I cannot become your mate!”
    “Why not?” I asked despondently. It was frustrating and hurtful that she was finally admitting that she wanted me, but was stating, at the same time, that she only wanted me for a few hot sessions and that was that!
    “I just can’t, OK?!
    “Susan! I need you and won’t let you go. I … I can’t let you go!”
    “Marruk and the others will come and fetch me,” she said.
    “By then you’ll be mine,” I growled, leaping from the bed.
    “No one is going to take you away from me! No one!”
    I quickly dressed and fled from my chambers. I first had to release tension – best done through training. I felt like giving my stubborn mate a good shake. How could she dare to tell me that she wanted me and yet reject me as her mate? Did she think I was not worthy of her? I was the king, for goodness’ sake. I had power, wealth - I was strong and could protect her. I loved her, would do anything for her. What more did she want? My tiger was as agitated as I was, but I considered it too dangerous to allow him to surface as that made him angrier. I had to find a solution soon, because if she did not give herself to me willingly, before my tiger became too powerful, then only one solution would remain: death. I would never allow my love of Susan to become a danger for her.

Chapter 4

    Training only calmed me a little. It did not exactly help that my tiger was so angry. My sparring partners had their work cut out for them with me today, and although I was simultaneously fighting four, I simply could not wear myself out. Adrenalin and frustration were making me into a real monster. The four soldiers against whom I was fighting were already the fifth quartet. The others had all been carried away from the area, injured, and I still had not had enough.  
    Frustrated, I stuck my sword into the ground and roared loudly. The soldiers immediately withdrew. The last time that they had seen me this angry had been when Morika was taken from me. Yet that was nothing compared to my present state. I cast my eyes up to the window of my chambers and I saw her. She was looking down at me. The distance was too great for me to see her expression behind the glass and I wondered how long she had already been standing there - how much she had seen. Would she now consider me to be a monster? - Someone that she should fear? I growled quietly before turning my eyes away from the castle and running towards the forest. If fighting could not exhaust me, then I would simply run.

    I finally risked returning to my chambers in the afternoon. Susan was sitting on the sofa with a picture book on her lap. Thanks to a translation device implanted in her ear she could understand me but she could not read any of the books. This was obviously why she had selected an illustrated book. I resolved to teach her how to understand and read my language, even without a translation device, at some point.  
    She looked up as I entered the room and my heart immediately beat faster. I had feared this moment, not knowing of course how she would react after this morning and after my outburst on the parade ground. But she just looked at me