"Oh." Sunny wasn't sure how she should feel about that, but she felt (perhaps absurdly) flattered by this.

"You're not my first," she said softly. She'd had her share of crushes running the gamut from chaste to... well, with Phouka was there anyway to think about it other than knee-wobbling lust? "But you're one of very few I've felt... I can trust." Regardless of the truth, there had been few men in her life she felt really saw her and not some exotic animal.