CHAPTER 10
“This mixture is finished,” I declare.
“Yay!”
“Yes. But now we must devise a way to chill it. If we had a nanorobotic bio-gel to coat our mixture, it would cool it and not even require electricity.” An important consideration, because the freezing compartment of Hannah’s refrigeration unit is quite full.
Hannah blinks at me. “What’s a nanorobotic bio-gel, and why doesn’t it need electricity?”
“Because it draws energy from the air,” I tell her.
Listening to me intently, Hannah dips a spoon into the warm mixture and tastes our batch. Her eyes go wide.
“Is it… good?” I ask hesitantly. “It will be better when it cools. Here, allow me to—”
“I love this!”
“Oh, that is wonderful,” I say warmly.
She sucks her spoon free of ice cream and drags her tongue over the underside of the utensil for good measure.
I stare.
The front of my trousers becomes uncomfortably tight on account of my sudden preoccupation with my mate’s agile tongue.
As if she has an instinct for the consequences her attractive self wreaks, Hannah’s gaze dips down my body—and stops below my waistline. Her lips form an O.
“About us being mates,” she starts.
Overheating, tugging at my shirt, I’m unable to blink. “My friends told me that I would recognize my true mate when I saw her. I had grown thoroughly discouraged.”
“Yeah?”
“Yes.” Sensing that my sleeves are creeping down my arms, I take the edges of them and roll them higher up my arms. Hannah watches my action raptly, making my fingers still as they grip my sleeve edges. “Never have I felt the sort of spark my friends described to me. I was beginning to think that my soul was made different. It felt as if I were missing half of myself, which was unfortunate because although I’ve searched, it seemed my other half did not exist. There was no relief for the ache that this caused me.” I force my eyes to hers. “Until I saw you.”
Hannah sighs, eyes luminous on me. “You are so getting lucky tonight.”