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"The Black Widoere strong and quite talented And they anticipated so to pick their webs apart"

"So we can’t work from the outside"

"Not if ant Surreal and Rainier to reet around the trap spell without triggering the death spells"

He took Jaenelle’s hand and kissed her palainst murder But that didn’tthe Black Wind back to this village, he’d tallied up all the things he’d learned about this haunted house and what must have been done to create such a place So he kneould be required to pay the blood debt owed to him as the Warlord Prince of Dheood reason

Since Jaenelle had told him they needed a Coach that would acco enough to be a flying two-story flat

"I have soave her hand one last kiss and stood up "I’ll work in one of the upstairs bedrooms so I don’t disturb you or the boy" That wasn’t the reason, but it was one of those lies that was understood for what it was--a public excuse for a private matter

He didn’t want to tell her what he intended to do Didn’t want to argue with her about it The first stage of the punishn would be brutal, but it was also just And it was a side of hi her see

His foot touched the first stair to the upper story when her voice stopped hiht spider silk," Witch said

"It will hold up better for those kinds of spells"

SEVENTEEN

Marian drifted around the kitchen, feeling soft and delicious and powerful and fery for the ht And thisto slide on top of hi that his only response at first had been to wrap his ar a woman so much that he wasn’t pulled from sleep when her body covered his told her how deeply he loved her When she sheathed his -hard cock, she kept herthe easy ride And then she felt the excite as she watched his slow rise from sleep until he was fully awake and aware justhim with her climax

She looked at the chair pushed back from the table and felt her body ready itself for asqueals, followed by playful "papa growls" fro to focus on so besides the chair and what she had done with Lucivar in the kitchen last night, she fixed her eyes on the corner cabinet Years before, when she’d still been Lucivar’s housekeeper, Jaenelle had decided Marian needed that corner cabinet-- as si, had no idea as needed in a kitchen She hadn’t been sure she’d ever use the thing, but now the shelves held little trinkets that warmed her heart--a pretty stone Daemonar had found for her; a seashell Lucivar had kept for her during a rare overnight stay he’d arranged with the dragons who lived on the Fyreborn Islands; and other things that reht she could be

Because she was focused on the cabinet, she noticed the triangle of white sticking out from underneath it When she pulled it out, she flushed with eotten shoved under the cabinet Lucivar never paid attention to such things, leaving it to her to decide what she’d like to attend or what hehad to attend

She read the invitation Then she read it again

She looked up when she felt his presence in the archway

"Lucivar, what…?"

He flinched Her strong, powerful, arrogant, Eyrien Warlord Prince husbandflinched

"Marian…I can explain"

His distress was unnerving, especially when she didn’t knohy he was reacting so strongly to so that was, in the end, a simple miscalculation

"It eet of you to prepare the invitations," she said, and then added silently,Even if the wording needs to be softened "But, Lucivar, the spooky house isn’t ready yet We’re still working on the last roo bitch"

It was like watching a stor toward you She could almost taste the violence that scented the air as he took the invitation from her

"It’s a trap," Lucivar said softly "And heknows it’s a trap That’s why he sent theJust watched his eyes glaze as he rose to the killing edge andhusband to lethal predator

"Pack a bag," Lucivar said "Enough clothes for you and Daemonar for a couple of days Do it now I’ll escort you to the Keep"

"And then?" she asked when it see to Dheo, I can take Daemonar to the Keep as soon as we’re--"

"No"

She looked into his eyes and saw the agony that still haunted him from the memories of what happened in Terreille last year She was supposed to go to the Keep then too Instead she and Daees Daeames, but the emotional price for both Daeh

She wouldn’t risk her son again by thinking she was far enough reer And she couldn’t risk the heart of either man

"Give me ten minutes," she said

He turned aside to let her pass He didn’t touch her She didn’t dare touch hi about that invitation that she didn’t Whatever he was facing, whatever he had to do, she wasn’t going to be used as a knife held to Lucivar’s throat

Not again