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realized I knew about it and didn’t say anything, I’d be in trouble. I do have to say, though, you’re a lucky lady.” She gave Harley a wink and walked away.
    In less than a minute, Blaise yanked open the curtain and stepped out of the changing area. His gorgeous body once again clothed. For the first time, Harley noticed the gold cougar head pendant he wore around his neck. Its ruby eyes flashed in the store’s bright lights as he stepped closer.
    “Do you need me to try on anything else?” Blaise asked, his deep voice rolling over her and making her shiver inside.
    “No, I think I found my gag gift.” She went over to the table of thongs, picked up a thong with the metallic gold hearts a size smaller, then walked back over to him. She held out her other hand. “I’ll pay for that now.”
    Blaise handed over the thong he held. It was still warm from his body. Harley turned, then headed for the counter where the till was. He followed behind her. The same salesgirl who had spoken to her was behind it.
    She smiled at Harley, her gaze flitting to Blaise briefly. “Did you find everything you wanted?”
    Harley nodded. “Yes.”
    She paid for her purchases before both she and Blaise headed for the store’s entrance. He walked at her side and took her hand in his, linking their fingers. Harley looked at him.
    Blaise bent his head closer to hers. “Well, since I belong to you, I’d better act like it.”
    Harley smiled. “Very true.” She was surprised Blaise had heard what the saleswoman said to her. She’d barely spoken above a whisper and he’d been in the changing area at the time.
    They strode out into the mall and walked a few stores down before Blaise pulled Harley to a stop off to the side out of the way of other shoppers. Still holding her hand, he turned to face her.
    “You’ve seen me in nothing but underwear. Is there a chance I can see you like that as well?”
    “I think so. Are you going to ask me out on a date first?”
    “Of course. I have a family dinner to go to this evening, so how about tomorrow evening?”
    “Or we could go to the food court here right now and grab something to eat. I’m not busy.”
    Blaise smiled. “Sure. It’s nothing fancy, but it’s the company I’m with who matters.”
    “Then it’s a date.”
    He stepped to her side again and got them moving in the direction of the escalator. The mall had five levels and the food court was on the very top one. They were now on the third.
    As they walked onto the first escalator, Harley looked at Blaise. This trip to the mall had turned out a lot better than she’d hoped when she’d set out for it, thinking to help pass the hours on a Saturday. She now had a date with a hot hunk, and she’d already seen him in nothing but a thong.
     
    Blaise looked at Harley out of the corner of his eye as they rode the first escalator up to the food court level. He couldn’t believe his luck. The first human female who caught his interest, and she’d accepted a date with him.
    Much to his pleasure, he found it to be a lot less stressful than approaching a female of his kind. There was always the added pressure she’d place on him, hoping he would be her mate. Most were raised to think that was their biggest ambition in life, to set off the magic in a male’s cougar head pendant, and that they wouldn’t be complete until they had.
    Since Harley was human, she had no clue about his pendant. She could still set the magic off in it, as he’d learned from Aspen setting off Taylor’s, but it wasn’t something she’d be hoping for. No pressure for it to happen.
    “So do you always let strange women talk you into trying on underwear for them?” Harley asked with a smile.
    Blaise shook his head and laughed as they stepped off the escalator and headed for the next one. “No. You’re the first.”
    “I guess I should take that as a compliment then. What made me so special?”
    He shrugged. “I can’t say it was just one thing.