"No. But she sure felt like one." I stretched my hands over my head. "I wonder if I feel so tough just because I think I have Taki's strength now." Who could know? I then lifted an eyebrow at my new friend. "What about you? You already have the strength of a cougar; will you become even stronger once you mate?"
Katherine shrugged, grabbing a towel off the ground. "Depends who my mate is."
I grinned. "Right. Well, hypothetically speaking, what if your mate is the leader of a mountain lion pride? Just out of curiosity, of course."
Throwing the towel at me, she huffed out a breath. "Considering I'll probably go absolutely freaking crazy waiting for that to happen, I don't think we need to worry about it."
"What if?" I insisted.
She shrugged again. "Then yeah, I'd gain strength. And he'd gain my instinctive ability." She dropped to the mat to stretch. "Though he'll always see me as that cub he saved from those rotten foster parents."
