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"I told you I wouldn’t tolerate you lying to me Ever"
"We’re not in the Queen’s Chamber You also said the lies we tell ourselves outside of your dungeon doors help us be e need to be" Leaning forward, heeye "If you don’t wantHell, I wouldn’t wish that on any woood news is I’m about as an--"so it’ll be easy to get rid of ers, one at a ti into the tender flesh at the base of his throat, probably the only soft spot on hiathered around those sharp edges "This is juun It makes no sense to rows, even with the sire’s blood, the sooner you can use hed, reached up to grip her wrist
Instead, her other hand closed on his, stilling the ers were
She let hirowing to the point she occasionally couldher gaze to his, she held the blue eyes "Gideon, it won’t work"
His fingers flexed slightly under hers, telling her he didn’t care for the grip, but his voice remained calm
Too calm A cauldron of eested, she would know every thought, every eh him, a temptation that had the shadow voices in her head practically frothing at thefro herself from him "Gideon, you’ve already said it I heard you You knohat vampires are, what I’ll become What do you think will happen, if you make yourself that vulnerable tovulnerable to you And how sure he is of the srown between you"
She snapped her attention to Daegan, still standing in that da to the kitchen "A tidbit of trust is nothing an’s jaw Va fro chain, even so eh Or was upset enough that she didn’t care anyan’s restraint
He rose "Before you two go crazy with the passive-aggressive innuendoes about your own relationship, can we get back on point here?"
He erous expressions that swung his way, if not for his own feelings about the topic
"There are plenty of things inAnwyn’s gaze "But ive this ut’s always right"
The forbidding countenance slipped, and he saw the wo, for as many reasons as his own brain could check off
Ironically, it an was cutting his wrist vein with a switchblade,his blood with Barnabus’s Her nostrils flared, detecting it, even as her eyes never left Gideon’s face He stopped with a foot between them, a barrier he’d let her decide whether or not to cross "Let me do this, Anwyn I want to take care of you I think that’s why I was brought here, though I can’t explainto have tomoment; then she reached up, touched his mouth "Be still," she said, when he would have reached for her wrist, or ainst her He capitulated as she traced his lips, passed her thumb over his jaw
"You want to take care ofto me? Because that’s what this is about I know it froan "Fro inside offaster, orfor blood" She dropped her hand "Gideon, what’s in ; I’ out of control But the way ness to be marked" She sed "It’s the way a pedophile feels when he sees a child walking alone Evil, dirty and unable to resist"
He heard it in her voice, a confident wo destroyed by terror of herself It wrenched his heart out of his chest He was cognizant of Daegan drawing near, the va the reins on it so tightly they could practically hear the blood pu out, Gideon closed his hand on hers "Your fear only confirrip on your conscience during all this, the second mark will connect us I can hold on to it for you until you’ve got a good grasp on it again"
"What if I refuse to let you go, after I o" His eyes shadowed "Because we both know I’ht person for this I’an stepped forward then "Perhaps it would be best if you go ahead and drink this,cherIf the sire’s blood stabilizes you ht not have to ht away" Gideon tilted his head toward the couch "Why don’t we go sit down there? The first tile" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>