Then Bloodline Tension activated.
This ability amplified family-dynamic attractions—that took the already charged connection between a man and his lover's blood relative and turned it into something magnetic.
Maria's last thought—would that work on me too?—had pulled the trigger. And now the tension was building between us with a force that had nothing to do with choice and everything to do with the cosmic architecture of what I was.
Generational Heat layered on top of that—the ability that specifically targeted older women, that made the age gap not a barrier but an accelerant.
And Cougar Instinct completed the sequence—activating in women who were drawn to younger men, amplifying their attraction, lowering their defenses, making the thing they wanted feel less like a sin and more like an inevitability.
I watched it work on her. Watched the shift in her posture—subtle, involuntary.
