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She’s going to give you that third ave a weak half snort "Too far gone Better this way, anyhow Third wheel" His voice faded off, his attention oddly detached "You can do a better jobYou didn’t let her come up here
Don’t carry an had slid his ar himself for a very fast transport, plus a very rapid third- It was possible h to kill hiht be too far gone But it was the only possibility for saving his life
As he lifted Gideon, thefaster than the light sparking along the shards of the blood-soaked mirror they left behind
Anas still curled on the couch when he got there He brought Gideon into the cell, laid his so that they slid against her hip She curled into a tighter ball, but Daegan closed his hand on one of her arht coil
She cas bared, hands going for his face Part of it was the ed by the way he’d pulled her back froistered the body he’d laid next to her
He fixed that quickly enough Twisting her around, he knocked her to her knees beside the unconscious Gideon She froze, her gaze riveted on the too-pale face "He’s dying"
"Not yet Mark hiht his hold "No, you do it I can’t--"
He shook her, hard enough to snap her head back painfully, drawing her attention to hi that can save hi it You are"
He forced her head down to Gideon’s throat The h to activate a young fledgling’s hunger Her fangs elongated She eeping, her hands shaking "He didn’t want this"
Daegan hardened his heart to her, to all of itHe doesn’t knohat the hell he really wants A vampire takes what she wants You take hilad you did it
As a human, she would have known only that he was badly hurt The supernatural predator she was no the da She could shted with her
Gideon had known it was a risk, but he’d cared more about her need to reclai He would have stood between her and anyone shehappened She knew that about hiht only of herself
"You’re still doing that" Daegan washer mindMark him
The vampire in her craved to do what he said, the vicious predator Barnabus had put in hertone that blasted away the last remnant of protest, the tone that wouldn’t be refused, even by a Mistress He was a Master ould not be defied, not now or ever
She sank her fangs into Gideon’s throat, goaded past the part of herself that was beyond morality, deep in animal instinctHe’ll never escape you The shadow voices rejoiced