Shirtless Distraction

[PRINCE CAIUS TORIN DRAVOS]

"Are you ready to talk?"

At my voice, the human's head snaps to face me. Her heart rate is rigid but slows down at the sight of me—

At least for a moment.

Then it does that—strange thing it did in the elevator. Beating... not just faster. More unhinged, failing to establish basic pattern.

I thought before that it was simply anxiety from being close to a Fang, but I had