My back shot straight, my eyes shot open and Tor took his mouth from my ear.
“Cora?”
I lifted a hand and curled my fingers around his at my breast, pulling them down.
He sighed. Then he said, “My love, you know you’re not –”
“If I were you, Prince Noctorno Hawthorne, I’d keep my trap shut.”
He, of course, did not.
“I’m a man, Cora, and you’ve been withholding from me.”
“No I have not, considering I lived in an alternate universe until a few days ago,” I reminded him. “The other Cora has. If you were my husband, you’d be getting it regular,” I announced.
Tor’s body went solid behind me again then he asked, “Does that mean what I think it means?”
I twisted and glared at him. “Yes!” I spat. “You’re a prince. You’re hot. You’re a great kisser. You have a cool horse. You’ve got great eyes and an even better chest. You have just enough, not too much chest hair. And when you aren’t being a jerk, you can be sweet. So, obviously, if we were wed in holy matrimony, I’d be giving it up… regular.”
His brows drew together. “You’d be giving what up?”
“Me!” I shouted then twisted forward, muttering, “Yeesh.”
His mouth came back to my ear, not to play, just to speak. “Well, since you are here and you’ve taken the place of the other Cora and you’re apparently stuck here, then I expect to get you,” he paused and finished firmly, “regular. Starting now.”
“No, absolutely not,” I denied.
“Then you lied?” he asked.
“No,” I answered. “But I can’t give it when I’m peeved.” I twisted to look at him again. “And make no mistake, Prince Noctorno, I… am… peeved.”
“You’re peeved a lot,” he observed.
“Learn from that, big guy,” I educated and twisted right back.
He chuckled.
I gritted my teeth.
Then I heard it.
My head snapped to the left and I peered into the trees at the same time Salem took two side steps and blew through his lips.
“Cora?” Tor called and my hand shot up.
“Sh!” I hissed and listened.
There it was again.
“Pull back on the reins,” I ordered.
“Pardon?”
There it was; I heard it again!
“Pull back on the reins!” I shouted then kept shouting, “Salem, stop!”
Noctorno pulled back on the reins and Salem stopped.