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When he straddled the seat outside the cell, beside the couch again, she slid down, curling her body in the sofa’s e now, can’t you?" she said softly "You anticipated the last one before I did"
Her wrist was propped against the back cushion, the curl of her fingers the only thing visible, the rest of her hidden behind it "Yeah," he said
"Just like you knew about the alley You came back Gideon, you have--"
"Well-developed intuition" He hated to hear it calledpsychic ability , as if it was a gift He and Jacob had both anticipated their parents’ deaths, a few agonizing moments before it had happened He remembered the way the two of the as one to see Mo the saht he remembered it was more flirtatious, Mom wrapped around Dad, as she tried to push him under
They hadn’t knohich direction or hoould happen, just like the night Anwyn had been attacked Not enough inforive her this "I can sense the unnecessary risks, Anwyn Be easy on that I know theis that I be around to take care of you until he gets back" Her fingers twitched "I’ve lost count Whose turn is it, on Twenty Questions?"
"If you can’t remember, then it’shis chin on his folded ar tense steel cables "Tell an I haven’t crossed his path before Since he has his own bedroo around here awhile"
Her chains clanked as she pulled herself up so she could rest her cheek on the back of the sofa, next to her ed tendrils of her hair caressed her cheek, and he was struck anew by the beauty of her eyes, no lad his appreciation was so obvious, because she noticed, and it made some of the tension in her face lessen The vanity of a wo balm It almost made him smile a little, for real this tian," she said, seeing it "You are a vaht stake him Why don’t you tell h slack to touch his hair, but she reached out to stroke the short lengths between her knuckles It felt good for her to initiate touch, good for the the curve of her cheek, the tender underside of her forearrasp of the towel over the swell of her breasts "He’s faster than any va different about hiure out what He’s like the difference between an Aruy who pumps iron to look like a badass I don’t think I could touch hi to help me knock him unconscious"
"Hrazed his scalp, pressed down "There’s a scar here"
"Yeah Vaood with the sharp end of a shovel It’s the servants that are the trickiest A hunter has to focus on the vamps, because they can outht of the servant, what he can do, if you’re not paying attention"
"But when you kill his Master, you kill him Two birds with one stone" Gideon shifted, uncomfortable "Vampire rules, such that they are, say the servant has to enter a valy It does happen by force so for death, so it’s aher head, she swept her gaze over hiotten blood and vomit on him, of course, so he’d stripped his shirt off a few seizures back Her gaze coursed over his upper body, lingering on the flogging scars, and the pain he saw fill her eyes humbled and dismayed him "Why doesn’t your well-developed intuition keep you out of that kind of trouble?"
"It does I’ you to our door?"
Gideon grunted, as always irritable trying to explain the inexplicable, even to this woman who needed his distraction "I don’t know I just tend to follow s work out That’s the truth My brother and I, we share that ability Sometimes we’re led by it Of course, sometimes it takes us in stupid directions, but we don’t see it Hence, here I am and he’s with a vampire queen" Her brows lifted "Your brother is aservant ? While you’re a vaan to tell you that My brother’s a va story" At her ironic expression, he grimaced "Yeah, I knoe have time But when you’re ready to explain your relationship with Daegan, I’ll give you the write-up on that one" She gave him a saccharine look "We’re friends Friends with benefits" Gideon whistled "Wow You’ve got a pretty good poker face, but I can call that one a lie froet into the lies we tell ourselves?" Before he could rally to that, she shook her head "Never et aith that one, not because you’re threateningto overcoenerous Mistress, Mistress"
"Did you find the answers you were seeking, our night together?"
"Not sure" He gave her a wry save hi of his upper body, then followed the stretch of denihs where they straddled the chair "Delayed, not derailed," she said
"Hine that scenario between thely allow a vampire to chain him up, even if he’d known her before
However, each time her eyes focused on him this way, or that tone crept into her voice, he sensed, re what had started the second he decided to cross the threshold of Atlantis The ansere here, with this woman It was just a hell of a situation, because she was no longer hu ers bit into his scalp, an urgent, unsteady note to her voice, though he didn’t yet sense another attack "Over in that cabinet It’s wired into the music syste squeeze of her wrist and strode to the player "Any preferences?"
"There should be so already keyed up"