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He hadn’t thought of it that way But then, he’d grown up keenly aware of what he was: a dhaantly expected to take over the clan one day--until the wake-up call that said, no, the world didn’t revolve around hiht not like the role he was born to play, but at least he’d known about it his entire life

"You can make your own rules"

"Oh," she said silkily, "I do make my own rules And I never break the to think one had so dhaain" She raised her chin in that stubborn set he was beginning to admire Especially because it bared the slender column of her throat and forced her to arch her back the way it did when he was driving between her legs "I will never belong to anyone--I will die before I allow that to happen"

He reed to the her self-i about, Sin? You don’t want anyone to own you… or your heart?"

She laughed bitterly, and entered the Harrowgate "I don’t have a heart for anyone to take" Con slung his ju over his shoulder and followed Sin into the cavelike enclosure of the Harrowgate

I don’t have a heart for anyone to take Bullshit Granted, she didn’t seeive a crap about anyone but herself, and maybe Lore, but Con had once witnessed the way she’d wrapped her body around Shade and Runa’s child to protect the boy froel She’d used herself as a shield, and concern for the baby had darkened her expression when she’d seen the blood on his skin--blood that turned out to be hers

Sin the Hardass definitely had a heart And so horong she was But as proving he was right so damned important? Because she tests you Because she’s untae if it seems impossible

Yeah, okay, that hy He was easily bored, always on the lookout for ways to keep fro mind It didn’t always pan out His quest for exciteotten him killed a few times, had taken hiotten him in the situation he was currently in

He’d become a paramedic in part because Eidolon had forced his hand, but there was also an allure to doing so he’d never done He’d been partnered with Luc, as as eager to risk his neck as Con was, and who had instigated the bet that had gotten Con into Sin’s pants Gods, life took soe, bumpy turns

Con palmed the map of North America, and Sin crowded close He could s on her, and his htail it back to town to kill him "Where to now?" she asked, as he tapped out the map

"Montana The northern Rockies," he said, more sharply than he’d intended "It was one of the places Lore indicated on his outbreak chart"

"Well" She gave hius?" The door shimmered open, and cool air that smelled of pine trees flooded the sht-drenched forest, needing to get away fro it wasn’t fair to blao away

"I also got the gate opened," she pointed out, and he clenched his fists "We could have gotten out of the town even without your Council leader buddy" "It was reckless and stupid, and you won’t do it again"

"Won’t?" She jam I do"

His jaw tightened "When it cos, you will listen to ht, and I kno they lust--" "Oh, for the love of God, put a butt plug in the ood at killing and fking, and I’ll use either of those weapons--"

Blinded by fury, he gripped her by the arainst hientle about the kiss at all It was about wiping the other male out of the picture It was about do sure that all his intier or pure lust, because he couldn’t afford to soften

Not that she’d allow that to happen She squealed in outrage and stoainst his chest Then she bit his lip hard enough to draw blood When the blood hit her tongue, she jerked, but the sharp pleasure-pain drove hi, licking, forcing her to taste hi any into his groin, and he froze as solidly as an ice sculpture

"Kiss ainst his lips, "and I’ll geld you and sell your balls to a Ruthanian specialty meats shop Understood?"