manny patted the two-hundred-pound jaguar with the side of his whip . raven noticed and asked , are you warm enough ? i start to reach for it to tease her . the only woman they had had hope of touching for so very long . i glanced down at the bulge still obvious in my pants . but he could not prevent that feeling or recognition of it . she turned off the burner and with a wooden spoon pushed the oatmeal evenly into the steaming mass . 