<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ccff99">Ayla was a little taken aback by how quick he was to jump to her defense, even from herself. It would have taken a vampire’s keen eyesight to see the blush that crept into her cheeks, beneath the redness from the heat of the water. She nodded slowly, biting her lip. She’d spent so much time playing catch up with her magic that she’d not even considered that there was still more grueling work ahead of them. More catch up.</span>