Dragoncrest Cliffs [m] salt plying

chani wanted to tell pepper she was well aware of his liking, but didn't want to come off as aggressively know-it-all. that was not her intent. she nodded slowly, searching his eyes. he had transformed into a beast for a while, but it was indeed these eyes and this face that had tended her afterward.
she was flushed with quick breaths. "why do you like it?" she challenged. would he only transform if she let him? suppose she goaded him into it?
endowed with a natural sense of superiority, an inherent sense of dominance, chani wanted to test the man, to see if his eyes would darken with anger, if he would try to grab her.
tonguetip held between teeth; the curve of her mouth said she was not opposed, as did her slow winding of honed arms around his heavy shoulders.
pepper was too intriguing not to know, chani decided, searching his face.