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"Hell it isn’t" He enclosed her in the circle of his ar to be anyone else for either of us" Clay waited for her to argue but she didn’t The leopard inside hi down Satisfied that she’d accepted the truth, he pulled at the material still bunched around her waist "Want me to tear this off?"
She slapped at his hand "Don’t you dare I’ll have to sew the straps back on as it is"
"Sorry" He nuzzled at her neck
"No, you’re not"
No, he wasn’t Hiding his sled and did little fe the slip to the bottos, where she kicked it off Now she was fully naked, all glorious golden skin and pretty freckles for hies," he murmured, his hand on her hip
Talin smiled Part of her - the part that had never quite believed Clay wouldn’t one day leave her again - was now at peace Mating was forever But a far bigger part of her was distraught What would happen to him if she died? She had to make sure he didn’t fall back into the darkness "Pro"
"No" His tone said he knehat she was going to ask "Don’t you dare ask that of rowled order "I need to know you’ll be there for Noor and Jon" It wasup the children, but she’d do anything to keep Clay safe, give up her pride, her soul
"No"
"Promise me"
He released her, rolled off the bed, and stood "You aren’t going to die, so this conversation doesn’t need to happen"
She sat up, tears in her throat "Ignoring the truth won’t ant leopard!"
He shifted in a shower of brilliant multicolored sparks
She was so startled, she couldn’t speak And then the lorious creature with defiance in its eyes "Not fair," she whispered, throwing off the sheet to crawl over the side of the bed and slide onto the floor
He cah She should have berated hiument this way but what she did was stroke hi her hand into the black and gold fir "Magnificent" Petting words, because while he was big and tough, he was also hers to love, hers to adore
Green eyes caught hers, a glearowled, bared his teeth And still she stroked hi
Chapter 45
Talin was still drowning in a confusion of happiness and fear late the nextas she sat on Tammy and Nate’s back steps The only reason she hadn’t co up with Rangi The other Guardian had returned at last He hadn’t blinked an eye when she’d informed him that Iain’s murderer was dead
"Good," had been his response "Thanks for looking after my kids"
She’d passed on the details he needed, then headed back, clear of all Shine responsibilities Her resignation was already typed up, ready to be e-er dared take responsibility for the welfare of innocents, not when her o haywire at any second Her eyes fell on Noor and Jon
They were playing in the yard with the twins, with Dorian riding herd Thank God she had Clay to make sure she didn’t cause any harm to these precious children He was on the phone inside the house right now, organizing a construction tea"
She looked up "Sascha? What are you doing here?"
"I came to check up on Jon and Noor" The empath’s eyes ithout stars, but her face wore a s the cup Sascha held out, she shifted over so the other wo with Nate about changes to the protective grid we run on our territory We’ve had so security But fro to be too busy with internal problems to bother us for the next little while"
Talin slipped at the coffee "Things are changing, aren’t they?"
"Yes" Sascha held her cup with both hands, forearhs "Far faster than I would’ve believed Judd thinks my defection acted as a catalyst"
Talin heard the skeptical note in the cardinal’s voice "You don’t think that?"
"I was considered a weak Psy, a useless appendage to Councilor Nikita Duncan" There was pain in that stateer "I hardly thinka ripple"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>