It was hard to read him now from those days they had played as children in open fields: he, a gamboling calf with stars in his eyes, and she as a half-horse human learning to never compromise her integrity.
His keen spirit and mind, the warm-hearted desire for her in his eyes, tantalized her senses in ways that made her forget all propriety and just want to climb onto his strength, and ride him.
Excerpt from Coming Of Age, by Athena Stairs
