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OUCH BECAUSE OF the bond, Torin’s attitude cut at Keeley when before it had ed her And because no other race bonded quite like hers, he would never kno much he hurt her unless she told him--which she wouldn’t

Guilt wasn’t what she wanted froh of it already

"If you don’t want to talk about sex" she began

He inhaled sharply Tone guttural, he said, "I don’t"

"Then how about we discuss your soon-to-be new favorite subject? Me!" Might have lost the first skirood as ," he said

"I’ve beenof the Curators The union lasted four miserable years, and I made sure there were no babies He was a terrible father to his other children"

"Dude I feel like an idiot I knew you’d been given to a king, but not that you’d married him Your title should have been my first clue"

"Well, Detective Torin, it was just a few ed to Hades, the worst deceiver ever to walk the earth It was the biggest atively End positively "My favorite color is rainbow, and I firmly believe raisins are nature’s sweetest candy I don’t care what the haters say! I know everything about everything, and the only ti"

His lips ht have quirked at the corners "The fiancée of Hades I should be used to it, but I’At first He was netic"

"And homicidal"

"Yes, but at the tiht h"

What did hewryly, he said, "Soould you say is your greatest flaw?"

"Why? Is this a job interview?"

"Could be"

For what position? "Well, reatest flaw is probably that I’h When he calht?"

"Right"

"Then how are you somodern?"

"Easy I once had a seer in htful ability to allow others inside her head to watch the future unfold, and I did Often"

"Fun, but not exactly helpful You knew the future, and yet you ended up in prison"

"True I suspect she willfully withheld that aspect of my life What better way to escape h about her "What about you? Givechoice of words Or ht ones They both shuddered

She shuddered with re--desire