Lucan watched her take the candy.
She did not notice the way he was looking at her.
Her attention stayed on the wrapper twisting between her fingers and the heat still lingering in her cheeks from running out of the yard like that. She slipped the sweet into her mouth and sighed softly as the sugar hit her tongue.
The sound was small.
Lucan felt it like pressure against his ribs.
She leaned against the crate behind her and finally looked at him properly.
And then it happened.
Felicity felt the pull.
It was faint at first. A quiet tug somewhere under her sternum. The same strange instinct she had felt earlier in the yard when the men from Leaf Team had looked at her. This time it was sharper because Lucan stood so close.
Butterflies stirred in her chest. Her heart gave one confused little kick. She did not understand why.
Lucan noticed.
Of course he noticed.
Predators noticed those things.
