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"Not this feht off guard by her annoyance "You are a part of my pack, cara It is tradition"

"It ritted Jeez, she thought Styx was arrogant He was an amateur compared to this man "Do you truly believe that I would juer for any reason?"

Salvatore gave a lift of his brows "I a a day or two to becoed "By then you will be fertile"

Darcy gave a strangled sound "Gripes Has anyone ever told you that your pickup lines suck?"

His lips twitched "You want me to court you with sords and false promises?"

Darcy stiffened as she recalled Styx’s dark, beautiful voice whispering in her ear as he made love to her

That’s what she wanted

So desperately it made her heart ache

"You can save your sords for some other woman"

"For the next few months there will be no other wonant I will re moment

"You can’t be serious"

"I’h "Just when I think this can’t get any worse it does"

"I have just promised to be faithful How can that be worse?"

She pushed herself frolare "Tell oing to be passed along to the other pureblood males so they can try their luck?"

He studied her with a frown "You will have your choice of bed partners"

Disgusted by the entire situation, Darcy gave a lift of her chin Enough was enough She would throw herself out thebefore she would ever agree to such a soulless arrangement

Children should be the result of two people who are committed to one another and can provide a home that is filled with love and security

She understood that need ed to another

Race, duty, nor iron shackles would ever change that

"There’s only one man whom I will have in my bed, and he’s not a Were"

A sharp silence descended as Salvatore stepped toward the bed

"Forget your varee with Sophia on anything, she is right I have wasted tooto ave a slow shake of her head "No"

"Yes, cara" He grasped her chin in a bruising grip "Tonight beneath the moon I will make you mine"

Unlike Darcy, Styx wasn’t actually chained to a bed He was, however, firant home

Not the first place anyone would expect to find the powerful Anasso, leader of all vampires And not the first place that the powerful Anasso would want to be

Thankfully for all involved, as the daylight hours slowly passed, Styxfury In fact, he was forced to concede that he hadn’t left his friends ravated when he had discovered the Weres had taken Darcy while he was gone would be like saying a category five hurricane was no more than a stiff breeze

He had, quite frankly, erupted into a black rage

Without his friends not only would he have killed the traitorous vahtened her froed blindly into the cresting dawn in an effort to retrieve his mate

A certain death sentence and no doubt precisely what the Weres had hoped would happen

Now, as the dusk approached, he forced hi eic he could muster

Which wasn’t very da at the et to Darcy was a painful ache that clutched his entire body

Still, it was enough to assure hiained his sanity if he was to get out of this cell and on the trail of histoward the door, he spoke with the cold authority that was far more his style

"Viper, I know you can hear me You have precisely one minute to join me"

There was the sound of footsteps, but the door remained firmly locked "Take it easy, ancient one I’le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>