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"The truth is that I’m just a vampire with all the flaws and weaknesses of any other," she clailorious beauty "I’ve already told you that the Oracles spread ruuise the truth of why they created the Veil"

He shook his head Where was she going with this? "And?"

"And the rumors expanded to include me and my clan e left this world"

"Your power is no rumor And neither is your beauty," he countered "Gabriel would have sliced open his throat if he thought it would please you"

Her lips twisted into a humorless smile "Not me His vision of who he thinks I am, or at least who I should be"

She wrapped her ar on the fullness of her lower lip He stifled a groan at thedown his body He was supposed to be concentrating on the reasons to keep this fe pleasure she’d given him

"Perhaps it’s my fault Over the centuries it suited me to play the role of the aloof, mysterious clan chief If people feared me, then it allowed my clan to live in peace away from our eneizing for some sin she’d never committed At least not as far as he was concerned "You did as necessary," he growled

"I did endary reputation to keep my enemies at a distance, but everyone"

He hesitated He’d been well aware of the distance she kept between herself and others But he hadn’t been certain if it had been on purpose or siaze, for the first ti in her dark eyes "Because then I could be absolutely certain no one would ever again use ain"

Before he could halt the need to touch her, Santiago reached to gently cup her face in his hands "I understand, cara I truly do"

She nodded He was one of the few demons who actually could make the claim

"I was satisfied with my choices until"

"Until?"

"You"

He flinched at the blunt answer, not sure whether to sink to his knees in gratitude or shake soarded her with a desperate hope "What does that mean?"

"You reminded me that I’m more than a clan chief," she said in low, husky tones "I’aze lowered to the slender curves that emphatically proclaimed her womanhood "Yes, you are"

Her hands lifted to rest on his shoulders "A very lonely wo herself"

He muttered a curse Just for a fewTo stop his coh her wary shields and instead return to his role of a protector Nothing, after all, wassure they halted Gaius and the mysterious spirit before they could create even e of vulnerability in her voice?

Or because he was a selfish bastard who urgently wanted to believe she needed him with the same intensity he needed her?

"Why me?" he murmured

A hint of a compliments?"

His thumb rubbed her lower lip "I won’t say no to any you want to offer"

"H, you’re the only vampire I’ve met who is too stubborn to take ‘no’ for an answer"

"That’s your compliment?" he co a sexy hint of fang "Your ego doesn’t need for eous and so sexy that females h hi away his futile attempt at sanity "That’s better," he murmured "Tellbehind an achingly somber expression "I have no words that explain why it was you, Santiago It’s oodness in your heart that you try to hide" Her hands slid over his chest, the light caress sending lightning bolts of pleasure through his clenched body "It is--and alill be--you"

The world came to a complete, perfect halt

She captured the truth in those seven sie exploded through hi

"Sí I was created to be yours, but"

"Ssh" She pressed a finger to his lips, the tantalizing scent of her jas the air "I don’t want to talk anymore"

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