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stumbled briefly when she was set down, but she quickly recovered and snarled, "I'll give you 'hurt' you sorry sack of—!" The wail erupting from the man, after Angel's swift kick to his groin, drowned out the last of her comment and effectively dropped the guy to the ground. His friends all backed away from the clearly ticked off woman before them.
    Jaxson fought off a smile, knowing his fangs had come down. He'd been dangerously close to shifting in his rage and needed to get himself in check, and quickly, before his physical changes became very noticeable.
    Angel was radiant in her anger with her cheeks flushed, her green eyes a bit wild, and her chest rising and falling with each breath.
    And his wolf wanted her.
    Now .
    Angel took one look at him and immediately came to his side. "It's alright, Jaxson, they're just drunk and being stupid."
    "They touched you," he snarled. "He hit you." He cast a murderous glare at the pitiful male still writhing on the ground before Angel took his face in her small hands and turned it to hers.
    "I'm all right, and I think I gave worse than I got anyway." She gave him a sly, playful smile, and easily calmed the beast inside of him. "Let's go home now, okay?"
    Jaxson smiled down at the little firecracker that was to be his mate. She was strong, and he could only pray she was strong enough to understand.
    * * * *
    Aside from his checking to ensure that she was indeed unharmed, the ride back to the beach- house was made in silence.
    "I read a few of Colton's books." His statement effectively ended the silence, and tension, building in the cramped confines of the car.
    "That's great! What did you think?" she asked as she got out and made her way to the door.
    "I think I owe him an apology, actually." He gave her that crooked little grin she loved so much, and shrugged. "I assumed he was just writing mushy junk to try and get girls."
    Angel laughed. "He certainly has a lot of female fan-mail, but he's always said he wants a woman who is interested in him for him and not for his novels."
    "I can understand that. What I liked the most, though, was the bond between the man and woman in the stories." He leaned against the doors frame, all lean muscles and southern charm.
    She smiled at the enticing picture he made. "I know. Wouldn't it be wonderful if a bond like that really existed?"
    "What if it did?" He sounded so serious all of a sudden, and Angel found herself curious. Would he balk at her answer? Would he think she was one of the millions of hopeless romantics just waiting for her Prince Charming? She was about to find out.
    "If it were me, I would embrace it." His shocked look prompted her to explain. "To have a man who, by destiny's own design, is perfect for you, would be an amazing thing. I couldn't imagine what a bond like that would even feel like. I mean, he describes it as them being able to feel each other's emotions and of having a soul-deep connection lasting forever…"
    "Or until one of them passes away," he said quietly. "Then the other either wastes away pining after their lover, or they go insane from the loss."
    "I don't remember that being in any of his books. Is Colton putting a new spin in his next novel?" she asked, excited by the prospect.
    "So, if a man could offer you all of that, then you would simply embrace it? You'd be able to accept any anomalies or secrets he may have?" He sounded so skeptical that Angel was mildly insulted.
    "Do you think I'm so shallow I couldn't love a man that was different from the norm? Listen, Jaxson, when I love a man it's with my whole heart. I don't know how to do it any other way, and it's caused me my fair share of pain in the past," she admitted. "Don't you realize I'm falling for you?" Angel snapped her traitorous mouth shut. She really hadn't meant to blurt that out and was blushing clear to her roots in embarrassment.
    Jaxson's eyes dropped to the ground, but not before she glimpsed a bit of emotion. Was it hope?
    "When I first