But he doubted that he would ever forget the night he stood outside her bedroom window and watched her undress. Strip stark naked! Then, she had paraded around the room with that Goddamned Wolf behind her, his vicious nose half way up her luscious ass!

Goddamn! He'd never seen anything like it! She was so beautiful. Even the beast itself, had seemed to notice! And then, the lights had gone out!

A dozen more times he had tried to watch, hoping to just glimpse her lovely breasts, her intoxicating hips and thighs. And that erotic spot between her legs where the golden hairs grew… but he's been unsuccessful. She had remembered to close the draperies.

So, enticing things came to poor peons in small measure. At least, he got to watch the mother occasionally when she prepared for bed, and what could be a more enchanting sight than that provocative woman?

All of the attributes of the daughter with dark trimmings, he grinned to himself. In truth, Juan Chaverez, you are a very lucky man. But only because you are an old lecher and a voyeur. The fact that you are lazy and worthless is permissible only because you have been married for a thousand years to a good woman who bore you many sons and daughters. Worthless sons and daughters! They provide nothing for your old age as you did.

The familiar partial-howl of the Wolf brought him up short. He had been about to flip open the stable door when he heard it.

Several things raced quickly through his mind in that instance.

Number one, the filthy beast wouldn't be in the stables unless his mistress was there, he considered. The brute never went anywhere without her. Number two, why would she be in there this time of morning, except to be with the Roan? But again, why? I didn't groom him yesterday after her ride! I never thought she paid that close of attention! With stupidities like that, she could make me lose my job. Then Rosita would haunt me till the end of time… or until the pain in my back becomes too unbearable!