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Maybe he’d called it off, headed to a Starbucks for an overpriced coffee, chalking it up to a bad business And she’d get that People ht Sure
The incubus stirred, started to speak "No," she ordered "Be quiet until Moht"
Her dry huer Even though his type could be vicious and savage, she had pity for hie of vicious and savage over the subtle quag toward her now
As the Dark Guardian es She had to adot a chance to see their wings For one thing, ht, and the wings were black Not glossy black like Cathair’s, but the deep ash of ceht, where the shadows seelimpse of the eerie silhouette She noted the texture was es made her think of the black sails on a pirate ship, loaded with cold-eyed criers to slit their victiested he’d had to exert hi behind her had so the wrath of a Dark Guardian was a low check on the IQ scale
As the Guardian strode toward her, the wings tucked in and vanished, leaving her looking at soether different She told herself she wasn’t impressed As the madam of a bordello, she ell aware ato do hatever lay inside his soul Appearances offered clues only to awas pure illusion, unless they had a fabulous gentlemen’s store in the Underworld
His clothes were custom tailored Black slacks, white shirt, black suit coat What every discerning, fashion-conscious h a Southern swamp Not a speck of ht in his dark hair, which was cut short but had an array of strands across a broad forehead, teasing a woers to touch it
As he shifted in and out of the ain His cruel face was precisely chiseled, as beautiful as Creation could s were always beautiful That was the way it worked; otherwise he couldn’t get close enough to be cruel
He could break anything he wanted, destroy anything he desired Destruction was not new to hi She knew it, because she knew hi
Mikhael Roely inadvisable for better coht Guardian Derek Storuy’s dark Raina would never ade, because there was no sense in letting Derek know she liked him Reciprocal affection would be distasteful to theh, thank you
A Dark Guardian was essentially a cop, just like Derek, and Raina had never had a good relationship with authority Neither Heaven nor the Underworld favored her decision to open a bordello with creatures who sucked life out of h sexual touch Hers didn’t do that, thanks to her special abilities, but it didn’t mean anyone approved If she ever relaxed her enchantments and her incubi and succubi unleashed the fatal side of their nature, Derek would be the first on her doorstep to take her down It was his job, nothing personal She understood it, the way he understood she had to dislike hiive a rat’s ass what any of theh about her disdain to be left alone Unfortunately, standing between a Dark Guardian and his prey was likely to destroy that already thin civilized facade
Ruby had described Mikhael as "distracting," in a bad boy way Actually, her exact quote was: "He’s the bad boy of all bad boys Rhett Butler lumped in with Sawyer from Lost, Alex from Grey’s Anatomy--first and second season, Mickey Rourke froe froreed "Oh, and Antonio Banderas doing the tango in Take the Lead That sexy part where you see the cross tattooed on his arm, a weird mix of the sacred and profane"
As she watched hih that she wondered if Mikhael also had soer than most incubus males, the sinuous muscle and broad shoulders, as well as the way he moved, the intensity of his eyes, flex of his hands, were all designed to make a woman think of sex When he finished his stroll across her lawn, heequally nefarious to her, yet all she could think about were tangled sheets, thoseupon her
Ruby had been pretty obsessed with him for a while, and she could see why
She wouldn’t fall under the sah, because sex didn’t , but in the end, it was a ainst the whole-rest-of-your-life kind of shit So she set it aside and focused on whatto have to kick his ass On her home turf, she was unbeatable Most of the ti you all the way out here on a Sunday night We’re closed If you coht, perhaps we canbehind her "He took so of Lucifer’s Lucifer wants it back"
You du at Mikhael as if he held a death notice in hand Except for his drop-dead sex appeal, Mikhael did look as eularly de-liet around to naaze up to her, the incubus blinked in surprise, probably at her pleasant tone "R-Reginald"
"A fake naht now" She nodded Spoke succinctly and slow "Reginald, you’ve taken one of Lucifer’s toys They’re very possessive of their toys in the Underworld If you have his toy, you need to give it back, because it’s not nice to take other people’s toys Do you have the toy?"