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"Know that I will shoot you again if I need to," he said "And know, too, that if I die, so will Ilianna"

That stopped me Even Amaya muted her screams "What do you mean?"

"Just that" He paused, but the tension in his body suggested he was very much ready to react the minute I soyour friend every hour, they will kill her"

"You bastard"

Amusement flitted across his features "All Aedh are bastards, dear Risa, because we seed and leave We are not prey to the emotions and needs that wreck so many human lives"

And were poorer for it "But to rape Ilianna--"

"There was no rape," he cut in, sounding oddly annoyed "An Aedh’s kiss always ensures that their chosen breeder is ay You would have had to force a kiss, if nothing else"

Though anger kept the worst of the pain at bay, I was bleeding all over the place and would be in very serious trouble if I didn’t do so else would not have been wise right now

"Well, yes, but we both knoas not her first male lover"

No, because Ilianna had experi After the attack on her sister had left her incapable of conceiving, her parents’ desire for grandchildren had fallen solely onto Ilianna’s shoulders The weight of their expectations had all but forced her to least try to have a relationship with a e her orientation than thethe day

"That doesn’t alter the reality that you forced yourself on her Whether theor not doesn’t matter in the end" And I would kill him for it If not now, then later

I shifted Anore the warer, a ers on my shattered hand, but it did little to stem the tide of blood

He made a "who cares" motion with his free hand "It has been done She will bear my child, no matter what happens to ets to live or die"

"And why the hell would you inate her if all you intended to do is kill her?"

"Coood behavior And, of course, she is not the only one I have seeded" His ss fromhad "So does your dark sorceress know she’s about to become a s faster thanamused "But no, she does not It is not necessary Besides, she has not entirely upheld her part of our agreewith a sorceress as powerful as Lauren Macintyre" But maybe she’d kill him and save the rest of us the trouble

"Yes, but there is also great pleasure to be found in playing such galance at his body and see for ame "So what’s next?"

"Why, you find the keys; then we both go to retrieve them, of course"

"Of course" Dizziness sweptthat was beginning to hitto do with theet onto the gray fields anyh hi chip with the Raziq"

"If you think they’ll agree to restore you to full Aedh in exchange for the keys, you’re not playing with a full deck"

"They will have no choice"

I snorted "They tortured you once for inforain?"

"Because I will have theet them--hell itself"

I stared at hiical solution "I’ to be as happy as all get-out when they discover what they’ve been handed"

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