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"Then why are you alatching her?"

"Because she's dangerous, a ticking tiet anyone to believe that, I know it" Though no one in the clan knew quite what to do about this situation, it was clear they all liked her Of course, they had no idea what she was truly capable of

No' like I do

Munro said, "Chloe's still trying to eat food Mayhap she can continue"

"If no', have the witches returned your calls?" He'd gotten Munro to ask for a potion toto the witches? Obviously Will was desperate But this was one of his last hopes His other was that Chloe could continue to eat normally, that her human half could rule her in this

Will had also asked if the witches could scry for Webb using Chloe's blood

Munro said, "I just heard back fro himself to trust a witch, he supposed it'd be that one

"She does no' have high hopes for an iot back to town-but at the verra least, she needs a sample to base it on"

"A sample? By then it'll be too late" There went that hope

"The witches had already used Chloe's blood to scry for Webb," Munro continued "They've said their results were 'puzzling' In short, they canna locate him The Lore's back to square one with that"

Why could nothing work out for Will? What had he done to deserve his fate? Daughter of Webb and a succubus Who the hell had Will pissed off?

Munro gazed out at the field, scrutinizing another scoring drive "I doona want to say Chloe's unladylike, but she does no' remind me of Lady Ruelle at all"

"They're h he couldn't quite come up with an instance "Just trust me on this"

At that moment, Ronan accidentally elbowed Chloe in the face, then looked horrified to have walloped a girl "Chloe, I' syed, though her lip was now bleeding "We're in the naled for the ball with one hand, she absently spat blood, then evaded Madadh with a clever spin th of the field and scored

Ronan jogged up to her "Your lip and cheek really look bad"

She rolled her eyes "Ronan, I' up your an in atone "She's just like Ruelle They could be sisters"

Will scowled

"Chloe's fierce, a fighter who does no' give a damn about her looks," Munro persisted

Ruelle had been weak, cowardly, obsessed with her own beauty Never a hair out of place, not even when she was feeding

Chloe's attitude toward her own appearance could best be described as See me, love me, motherfucker Even now her hair looked like she'd hacked it off with a knife And it still bluidy looks good

You'd never know the heavenly arse on that female because it was always hidden by loose men's shorts, and he could swear she wore more than one bra, just to conceal the size of her perfect breasts

No, the two succubae were not alike But if Will ever allowed himself to believe that Chloe wouldn't transform into a facsimile of Ruelle, and then she did

I would no' recover

Munro continued, "No' to azed around wildly "Doona ever say that again!" he sputtered, though that was precisely what Ruelle had been

She'd poisoned hi mind couldn't understand-and his body hadn't been ready for-as if he'd been a puppet It'd been terrifying to hiht, s him with perfumed white flesh

Even when his beast had risen, Ruelle-a fully grown immortal-had still been able to overpower him, a child

"I'm tired of this, brathair" Munro scrubbed his hand over his chin "We've tiptoed around the subject for centuries We need to talk about this if we're ever going to get past it"

A flash memory of Nix arose You need to rebreak that bone It didn't set right Was this all a part of her plan? Was she trying to get Will right with hiht about how he'd come to possess Chloe, the more he detected Nix's interference He'd realized the soothsayer had gotten hiotten Chloe there as well

After twenty-four years, two factions had found Daughter of Webb on the saht? Dropped a dime to the witches about her existence, did you, soothsayer?

Munro said, "I keep thinking back to that night, Will There were two fee, and Chloe is more like Mam than she'll ever be like that succubus"

"Doona dare coazing at Chloe The sun flashed through clouds, pris to bruise fro pale, she abruptly ran for the woods Will tensed, uneasy when she left his sight Then he heard her throwing up

She returned ht for the cooler She swished beer into her mouth, then spat it out

Munro exhaled "She's lost her breakfast, then"

"Aye There went ame, her bruise had blackened her eye as well And she'd hurt her ankle When she put weight on it, she winced, then cast Munro a questioning glance

He gave her a grave one in response

Turned to Munro instead of me MyShe'll need to feed soon"

"What do you expectas an accusation; he er to take on her venomous bond To be tied to her forever" To discover that I canna satisfy her either He'd never been able to feed Ruelle enough And if she'd co sex, he had no memory of it No wonder she'd taken a vaaped at him "You could heal your eternal mate with one tup Do you want me to be ashamed of you? Your choices are verra simple Either you bed her or you allow another to feed her"

"I'll kill any who touch her!"

Munro raised his brows at Will's outburst "Then you either bed her or watch her die"

Or I die As soon as the thought occurred, he knew that path was closed to him His newly returned Instinct would never allow him to harm himself, not while he had a mate who'd be left alone in the world, unprotected

Munro pulled a stalk of grass, twirling it in his fingers "When you wereChloe to the wall, you repeated the last words Mam said to you What do you think she and Da would react toa hated species? Or that you're no' protecting or providing for her? Fate made a decision, and now you're to abide by it They raised us to believe in fate as our faith, Will They raised us better than this"

Will stabbed his fingers through his hair, then ad truth "I doona know if I could tup her Physically Even if I wanted to" Sex with a succubus was different from sex with other fe hi spasht that last pull would kill hi it made his breaths shallow "She would likely have to use her strew on me"