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She tossed her head defiantly, averting her face A finger beneath her chin forced her to turn back

"Ah, yes, I like you this way old

"I don’t like you any way" Jaw jutting, she tipped her nose skyward Dignity, she reot that, Irish Best bear inparticularly merciful at theyou"

SheGram would have washed out her mouth with soap for

Its eyes flared with instant heat Then it laughed darkly, wiping blood from its lip with the back of its hand "That’s not what you were saying a few o"

"That’s not how I hter stopped abruptly and its gaze turned cold "Ah, but I’m afraid I’ain unless you ive you the chance to take it back Just those tords Say theain and I’ll be all over you On the floor Me and you Say it Go ahead"

Gabby gritted her teeth and stared down at the hardwood floor, counting dust bunnies No han chided in her mind I raised you better than that

Great, she thoughtup on her Even dead people

The finger was back beneath her chin, forcing her to aze "Got it?"

" ‘Got it,’ " she clipped

"Good" A pause, a han, what exactly is it you believe ed nonchalantly--in as much as she was able, tied so securely--not about to ad A shee-seer, It’d called her, the archaic name for what she was She’d encountered it in the Books of the Fae, but never heard it spoken aloud "I have no idea what you’re talking ab--"

It er to her lips, shushing her "Irish, don’t dissemble with me, I have no patience for it The féth fiada doesn’t work on you, and you calledat me, I was perplexed, but there’s no other explanation for your behavior It’s why you foughthtly She had well and truly betrayed herself, first by being caught looking at it, then by telling it to "go to hell" by naa to kill h indeed there was a tiht, overning our races was negotiated" It swept a fall of hair fro, tracing the curve of her cheek "Nor do I plan to hurt you, unless you hurt ain, at which point all bets are off As of thisto wipe the slate clean between us, consider your hostility ayour life in jeopardy--would feel driven to fight dirty against a ain, you’ll pay tenfold Understand?"

Gabby nodded stiffly, wishing it would stop touching her The le, made all the muscles in her lower stohted as her hottest fantasy?

It leaned back in the chair, swept its hands through its long dark hair, then laced its fingers together behind its head Its powerful ar beneath the black T-shirt,sun spilling through the tall s It took iaze fir down over all that fairy perfection

The Books of the Fae contained dozens of tales about how, in the days of yore, on nights when the ainst a violet dusk and the Wild Hunt ran, youngto be taken by one of the exotic Fae han would never be such a fool Whatever it had in store for her, she would fight it every inch of the way

"A Sidhe-seer," it said, dark gaze scrutinizing her intently "It never occurred to ht still be about Aoibheal believes the Hunters elio, as did I How many others of your bloodline have the vision?"