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"And suddenly Lauren’s presence in your lifeI do, I do for a reason, Risa" He nodded down atabout that I need you fit and able to find the keys later today"

"Sosex," I spat "Is everything that comes out of your mouth a fabrication?"

"Only when it suits ant "That, however, was not a total lie The only ti sex--it just doesn’t have to be between you andup that the bitter taste of bile filled the back of my throat Every ti oing to fucking kill you You know that, don’t you?"

He laughed softly "Keep believing that if it makes you feel better, Risa However, you are no s--and not even the banshee you hold in your hand will alter that one fact"

Banshee not, Aladly eat

Not until we find Ilianna To Lucian, I said, "You alere an arrogant sod I just didn’t think you were stupid"

"I guess only tied, the ested before, you’d best heal that hand"

I glanced down Blood strea pool underneath them shimmered softly in the seave way and the pain hit My legs started tre so badly, it was all I could do to re

I wasn’t even sure I could heal a wound this bad, but if I didn’t try soon, then I’d be unconscious and in his power again If he moves near me, I ordered Amaya, slice him up Just don’t kill him

Pleasure

I closed my eyes and called to the Aedh It caic that had preventedin the bedroom still held so the lith And in the end, the result was pretty rabbed at that trickle fiercely, forced it down into y I felt the burn of power roll down thethrob of pain was gone as my lower ar in an to slip I bit ers that were healed and whole But this tiy was little more than a ash

Then my knees went out from under me and I hit the concrete Hard I bit back a yelp and, with soers back on my hand, but they were still a bloody--and very painful-- had at least slowed to little ain "Nohat?"

His gaze slid insolently down my body and my stomach clenched He not touch, Amaya warned Will slice

Her fierce readiness to defend , but I had no doubt that having sex with hi Ilianna free He didn’t want just any offspring, no matter how much he’d loaded the bases with Ilianna and Lauren He wanted our offspring Wanted a child that was as close to full Aedh as soet

And if that was the price of freeing Ilianna, then it was one I would pay, however ht hate it

"What do you think is next?"

The desire radiating off hi, it hit like a summer storm My body trembled under its force, and th of the storm

"If I kneouldn’t have asked" I continued toa million miles an hour and my throat was dry

A smile played about his lips "You lie, Risa Jones"

I didn’t reply, because there was very little I could say or do at this point If sex hat he now intended, then it would happen, no matter what And if I killed him, as I ached to, it would be Ilianna who paid I was the reason she’d been kidnapped, raped, and ih I couldn’t bear the weight of her death as well

He took several steps toward me, then stopped "Get up"

I rose slowly and somewhat unsteadily Lust continued to roll off hian to dot my skin My damn nipples were so hard, they ached and, as nore the desire that slithered through me And while most of it was undoubtedly the spell he’d placed on ht hate him, but I also wanted hiazes clashed for severalertip between my breasts, and pushed me backward Amaya’s screams echoed in my head, and I ordered her to shut up and not cut