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Just north of Chicago

Sally ith a throbbing head and a nasty premonition that she was ass-deep in trouble

Like a coward she kept her eyes squeezed shut and tried to will herself back to sleep If so, why be conscious for it?

Unfortunately, she was sprawled on a hard ce her a cra in the dark didn’t seely forced her heavy lids to lift

She grie unoccupied roo horde On the down side, it was coated in a thick layer of dust that now covered her froed to rise to her feet, pressing a hand to her aching temple

Where the hell was she?

And aze skimmed over the brick walls and the s that had been boarded over The floor was ce lined with steel bea a hesitant step forward, she desperately tried to reh the tunnel with Roke, right? And then they’d co on e to search the building overhead

Had he abandoned her? Or had so happened to hi thoughts could fully for head No He’d coht He’d coainst her breastbone Oh, crap

He’d come back ready to murder her

So had he succeeded? Was this her version of hell? An eternity alone in an empty, dusty warehouse?

It could be worse, she decided, heading toward the steel door across the barren rooant bully of a vaht hatred

Alht of Roke stirred some primitive connection to him, Sally came to a slow halt

She sensed hih she would swear she could feel the icy prickles of his power brushing over her skin

But solanced around the shadowed rooh the darkness, bouncing off the walls "Is anyone there?"

There was the faintest swish of sound before a dark shape was falling from the rafters She instinctively leaped backward as the shadow revealed itself as Roke

Holy crap

Had he been hanging up there like a bat?

With a chilling s the black jeans and leather jacket from earlier, but his dark hair lay as sly handso so white in the diht

"Roke," she breathed

"Yes, Roke" His power bit into her skin like tiny shards of ice "Your devoted love-slave"

She winced, rubbing her hands over her ar to be"

She believed hiible force She shivered, hoping he would at least make her death quick

"Iit wasn’t s that looked massive to Sally

And deadly

Andpainful Really, really painful

"Tell me exactly what you did to me," he snarled

"I don’t know"

He stepped forward, leaning down until they were nose to nose "Try again"

"Stop" She stu with a fear that threatened to consu over ave a derisive snort "That’s a first"

She held up a pleading hand "Just back off and I’ll tell whatever you want to know"

"Fine" With a glare he took a deliberate step backward, his expression carved in granite "Talk fast"

She cleared the luh the panic clouding her hted to rasp