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Even if she wasn’t that kind of Mistress, he knew about vampires He was no one’s pet, no one’s slave, as he’d told Daegan He didn’t bend over and let hiers and told hi he’d wanted to do when he saw her was to drop to his knees and hope for her touch

She did need some form of stability But maybe it didn’t have to be the whole enchilada There were three ht help her, that one blood connection, and the only advantage she’d have over hiraphical whereabouts No as he letting anyone into his head, the advantage of the secondso there was no way he’d ever consider if he was in his rightinto a murky pond with no clue to the kind of monster beneath the water’s surface Or, worse, he did have a clue, but he was considering it, anyway For a lot of the reasons that Jacob had uncomfortably just outlined Of course, Jacob had claimed he’d dreamed of Lyssa years before he’d met her, some kind of past-life bullshit Gideon hadn’t even had a clear picture of Anwyn before he walked into her place It couldn’t be the sa creek that builds into a riverBut did you dive headfirst in that shallow creek, hoping it would become a river before your fool head cracked open?

"Gid, are you about to get yourself into the kind of trouble you can’t get out of?"

"Maybe I’ll call you later Give Lyssa a slap on the ass for et right on that Gideon--"

"Be easy, little brother It’s all right It’s a different kind of trouble, not the life-or-death kind"Maybe

"Hey, do you or Lyssa know anything about a vaan Rei?" Jacob and Lyssa were of course telekinetically connected, so Jacob must have offered the question in his mind Lyssa was suddenly on the line, her sensual voice frosted with ice he could feel, even long distance "Gideon, what’s your involvean Rei?"

"It’s a long story I just wondered--"

"I don’t care how tough you are, you donot go after him"

"I’m--"

"I am not prepared to attend your funeral, even if there were enough pieces of you left to have one I don’t have a suitably dery to have to buy one"

"Wear red lace, then We’re--"

He had only a blink of warning, a sense of ih to spasers so that the phone clattered to the cee Holy Christ, how had she done that? He knew Lyssa’s Fey abilities were growing, thanks to her exploration of her father’s side of the faingerly, surprised it was still functioning "How did you do that?"

"That’s also coain "You’ve really ticked her off But I got the gist of it You’re not going after this guy, are you? If you are, I’ to say before she went all Electron Woether"

Because that brought on a sudden shocked silence, he pressed the advantage to get the full ht now, but I need to knohat she knows about him I’m fully aware he’s a badass, and le with that side of hi so to himand to me, too Maybe IShe needsda up"

"Hold on," Jacob said absently Gideon waited, getting a vague sense of conversation, though no one was speaking

"Lyssa doesn’t want to say a lot, but I told her you could be trusted with this You can’t repeat it, okay?