Page 12 (2/2)
She looked at him, then turned her attention back to the road When the fae’s spell had brushed her, Anna had wanted to like her, to fawn at her feet and wait for crumbs of kindness The rest of the ti with Charles-for having slept with him
She wanted to crawl in a dark hole so that she never bothered Brother Wolf with her presence again-which she kneas stupid He hadn’t been rejecting her Not really But there had been such dismissal in his admonition His attention had been on Dana
Dana as fae, a Gray Lord, confident and powerful Not a twenty-three-year-old woman with half an education who didn’t even know, after three years of being one, a quarter of what she should know about being a olf She was no fit match for Charles
None of which she could talk to Charles about without sounding like a stupid twit-a coh-maintenance, stupid twit Fortunately she could answer his question without betraying what really bothered her about visiting the fae
"In Chicago, at the Brookfield Zoo, they have a reptile house I took a school tour of it once, when I was a kid They have a green mamba It’s the most beautiful snake I’ve ever seen; not flashy, just this indescribable shade of green-and so poisonous that if soets bitten by it, there’s usually no time to administer antivenin"
"You think she’s beautiful?" He considered it "Interesting looking, I would say, but not beautiful Few of the fae are beautiful with their glamour on Beauty doesn’t blend in very well And the fae, like us, spent a long tiht"
Anna stared ahead "She’s beautiful Distinctive In a room of movie stars, everyone would look at her first"
He atching her intently; she could feel it even if her eyes were busy with the traffic
"That’s dominance," he said "Not beauty"
"No?" She passed a couple of boys in a Ferrari, and they took offense, roaring up behind her until they were so close she could tell that one of the pair should have shaved better
"Beauty isn’t always easy," she said "Take Paganini for instance"
"That’s music"
"You knohat I reeable conversation, and she liked the way he considered what she’d said instead of just letting her run with it
"I’ve seen her without her glamour," he told her finally "Maybe it blinded s When we beca" He atching her reaction
Thathim describe a former lover lih she’d done her best not to look No one should stand completely naked before another person But she’d noticed so unexpected She kneho she was-and she kneho he was It wasn’t that she didn’t value herself; she did But Charles was a force of nature
And he worried that she ht not ever be able to see who he was and love him-because he looked in the mirror and saw only the killer It was the reason he kept the bond between thehtened down He loved her beyond all reason and didn’t expect her to love hi for her to wise up