came, searing and palpable, filling the room with the fragrances of summertime woods, wild strawberries, and the lush-green of Ireland. He could feel her inside him, her goodness, her beauty, her fiery warrior's strength and something mysterious infusing his blood changing him by increments as her power always did when she gave of herself to him. Releasing her head he slid his hands down to her waist, touching lightly the new swelling of her belly, the slight roundness that hadn't been there when he'd seen her in her undergarments hours before at the bridal salon. Clutching her face he drew her lips back to his and this time he gave to her, sending forth from his body a powerful beam of amber-light that made her dig her nails into his chest, her hair lifting around her, billowing about like suspended