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because she really believed and agreed with him.
    “Not yet, but you will be.
Trust me.” He didn’t give her a chance to panic or deny him. “Just hold onto
me, as long as we’re touching you’re safe.” Then he kissed her, entwining his
legs with hers and maintaining his hold on her, he rolled them into the water.
Releasing her, but holding her hand, he swam with her out of the cave.
    At first, she tugged against
his hold. She kept kicking and twisting, her movements becoming more frantic as
she tried to pull them in the other direction, back toward the cave.
    It’s
okay. Don’t be scared. As long as you’re with me, you can breathe underwater.
Just relax. You asked for proof.
    He knew exactly, the moment she
registered his words in her head.
    Her eyes grew round and wide.
She opened her mouth in shock, then closed it, realization dawning about how
she was breathing underwater. “How?” she mouthed to him, bubbles bursting from
her mouth.
    He spoke his reply in her mind,
“Just think your words and I will hear you. Just the way you hear mine.”
    “Oh, my God. Can you read my
mind?”
    “No, not exactly, just those thoughts
you project toward me. Same with me. This is the way my people normally
communicate. We don’t read thoughts, only the things you’re actually saying. Your
private thoughts, the things in your subconscious, remain your own.” He didn’t
add that, after they were mated, they would be able to read each other’s
thoughts. That might be too much information for her…too soon. “I like you. I
want you. Again.” He let her see the heat in his gaze and found pleasure at the
answering glow in her eyes. “Spend some time with me; let me introduce you to
my world.”
    She treaded water in front of
him near the bottom of the ocean floor. She peered downward and he followed her
gaze to try to see his world the way she might in the dim lighting. He squinted
and toward the bottom, he could make out colorful fish swimming by. There were
shadows of weed like plants that grew above ground but their leaves were
swaying with the current. He gazed up, nothing but water surrounded them and a
thin filter of daylight reached where they were.
    “This is freaking unbelievable.
Do I have a choice?” she asked.
    “You always have a choice. You
do not have to come home with me. I can take you to the surface and get you to
the next stop. But, I can’t take you back to the ship. By now, we’ve both been
reported missing. There would be too many questions I can’t answer.”
    “All right, so your world isn’t
something you want made known, got it. I can just see the six o’clock news.
Mermen are real, save stupid tourists from drowning. But where does that leave
me?”
    “When I get you to the next
stop, we’ll claim we were picked up by a fishing vessel.”
    “The next stop is another two
days away. How exactly did you plan on getting me there? Swim? Just ’cause I
can breathe underwater, I’m not sure if I can swim two days to get there.”
    Xavior grinned. “That’s because
you’re thinking in terms of landwalkers.”
    She raised an eyebrow at him.
    It pleased him to see the fear
gone from her gaze. Only curiosity remained. And attraction, oh yes—that,
too.
    “If that means a person who
walks on the land, then that is indeed what I am.” She shook her head. “Yep,
that’s me.”
    “Well, the children of the
waves can cover great distances in much less time, than it would take you to
walk it. The sea is our home and parts its ways for us. You’ll see.”
    “How long in,
uh—landwalker terms, would it take to get to port?”
    “A few hours, and we can rest
in between.”

    Cori thought she might just be
certifiable for even thinking this was all real, maybe that hit on her head did
more damage than she thought. How could she be miles underwater calmly talking,
okay well—thinking to this magnificent man after making incredible love
with him? Then again, did she? It could all be part