She was truly the most fascinating woman he had ever known across both his lifetimes, and he was certain that fact would never change. He had felt the surge of overwhelming emotion pouring from her earlier, when she had tried so hard to say something. Ivan wanted deeply to know what she had been so desperate to tell him, but he himself had been flooded by her emotions, which was why he had first tried to calm her, so he could steady himself as well.
Now, as he waited for her in the water, impatience crept in, each passing second stretching longer than the last.
He extended his senses and soon caught the sound of soft footsteps padding slowly towards him from inside the cottage. His heartbeat began to hammer against his chest as his molten red eyes turned towards the doorway, anticipating her appearance at any moment.
