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"Do you no' reht a drea how brave she was She rehts around her His face had been shadowed, but she recalled his brilliant colored eyes And his voice

His sexy, sexy voice It was deep and gravelly, shiver-inducing

That feeling of awakening nore hih her head ached and she was dizzy from the sudden s, scouting for exits, weapons, resources

"You're safe, lass," he said When she didn't relax her guard, he added, "None of us would ever harm you"

She sed "Who are you?"

"My name's Uilleam MacRieve, but you can just call ly hot Lord help me What'd he say his name was? It sounded like Ooh-lum When she tried to pronounce it back, he cut her off

"I said to just call me MacRieve"

She could swear he was disappointed by this The gorgeous Scot with amber eyes was disappointed in her

"And you're Chloe You look like a Chloe"

"What does that look like?"

The corners of his lips curled "Cute"

Merely looking at his slanced at her chest, as if he could hear it, and his smile deepened

Like all immortals, Lykae had superhulanced away "What do you ith me? What happened when I was unconscious?"

He sat on the edge of the bed and rested his elbows on his knees She noticed then that he had on battered jeans but wore a nice black shirt "After I saved you froot you patched up, then brought you back to the house I share withpunks who doona understand the concept of rent"

His tone sounded so normal

Wait "Patched up?" She'd been injured in the melee So why did she feel no pain in her side? Oh, God, what if she'd been out for days? And how could it possibly itch this bad? "That was tonight?"

"Aye I took you to a healer of sorts"

Me she was hisfrom her side as the rain cauely re a sexpot with a pet boa constrictor "Did you take rinned with perfect white teeth, adding, "We rubbed soain she reacted physically, her heart speeding up Had she ever beheld such kissable lips? Though she could count on one hand the nuine, in detail, licking this one's lips, sucking on the bottom one

Inner shake "Wh-why aed her into a Saints T-shirt that went down to her knees

"Because your frock was toast"

Frock? "Not ave it a scratch, she found so she desperately wanted off

"You had blood all over you from your wound"

"So you took it upon yourself to wash and change me?"

"Hardly looked down a'tall," he answered with a sha at her undressed The first one And he wasn't even apologetic Chloe didn't have tiure out what she hat she soon would be She needed to find her dad before the Lore did "I appreciate everything you've done, but I've got to be on my way Do you have any clothes I can borrow?"

His face fell "You want toleave uy very often Gorgeous did not begin to describe hiht You can leave once you've recovered more"

She did feel safe with hiotten her healed, just as he'd pro out tomorrohen she was rested, made the most sense But this situation was riddled with so many unknowns "Do you have any, well, expectations of me? Since I'm yourmate?"

"I expect you to letuy too good to be true?

"You canna leave without a ga for you"

"Creatures" Her life was a shit stor her crazy!

Maybe MacRieve could answer all her questions "Okay, I'll stay tonight" Maybe he could figure out as happening to her

"Chloe, we need to speak about what's going on so I can better protect you But first, are you hungry, thirsty, cold? Are you in pain?"

She didn't have pain in her side, just itching She hadn't eaten all day; she wasn't hungry in the least You're changing, Chloe "I arab a blanket off the bed, rushing back to drape it around her shoulders Then he motioned to a pair of chairs in front of a fireplace "I'll start a fire"

As she took a seat, he set to work; soon fla away the last of her chill

When he joined her, he asked, "Do you knohere Webb is?"

She wouldn't divulge anything unnecessarily about her dad, but ad about all this see for weeks"

"He has no' tried to contact you?"

She was embarrassed to admit the truth: "Not a peep Do you have any idea where he is?"

"I doona Word has it that he went into hiding No one in the Lore can find hi? Then why hadn't he taken her with him? Maybe he hadn't wanted to interrupt her life

And maybe he shouldn't have left her ass so vulnerable!

The roulette wheel of her eer, fear, sadness

As if he read her mind, MacRieve said, "He left you at home, open to attack? You're lucky to be alive"

"How did the Lore find out about me all of a sudden? Two different species were after ht And that was before the auction"

"What do you ht, back at ured ht-foot-tall, horned guy"

"A demon, then"

"Well, when I hit him with my baseball bat, that demon crushed it like a tin can"

MacRieve raised his brows like he was iot soood it did When I ran froh a trapdoor and woke up itches all around me"

"Loathe witches" His amber eyes flickered to an otherworldly ice-blue "They must have found out about your existence and scried for you Mayhap the deht wind of their plans Those witches are detestable creatures Do you ken what they are?"

She nodded "I reaze narrowed "I thought you dinna know about the Lore"

"I know all about it I just never kneas real" At his frown, she said, "I read the Book of Lore Before tonight, I thought it was fiction"