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A muscle leapt in its jaw "That is not all I have been, Gabrielle I have been, and as"

"Oh, of course, silly er of innocence"

Its eyes narrowed "I have not ravaged yours Though I sh I could with little effort, as I am twice your size"

Oh! Surely it couldn’t sin, could it? A uarantee do I have that you won’t?"

A dangerous slint in its eyes "None In fact, I guarantee you I will But I’ll grant you this pledge: When I do, it will be because you’re asking it ofme to fuck you"

Its words sla the breath out of her, as it had meant them to It had masculine inti to snap back, to deny, to insist it would be a cold day in hell, but it surged up froh Do you intend to aidfrantically through her er options Damn it all, if she helped it, she just knew she’d end up taken by the Fae There was no way they’d let her walk away free No way They hadn’t spent thousands of years hunting down and destroying the Sidhe-seers, only to let one go now Especially not one young enough to spahole future line of Sidhe-seers

And what if they decided to take her mother too? What if they refused to believe Jilly truly didn’t possess the vision she’d bequeathed to her daughter? Happily reive her! Not that they had the best relationship as things stood, but she had no desire to s any worse

And what if, discovering that she’d eluded the about the last of the Sidhe-seers being wiped out--the Fae began to hunt theain in earnest Gabby had no doubt that so, keeping their heads down, trying to live normal lives There were entries in the Books of the Fae that ue reference to other bloodlines si that once there had been han woured out how to survive What if her betrayal caused them all to become persecuted anew? If even one other Sidhe-seer was ferreted out and captured because of her, she would bear the responsibility for their griive you my word, it had said, I will protect you But Gabby’d not been raised by Walt Disney, she’d been spoon-fed fairy tales of the darkest kind since birth She was incapable of trusting it And even if, by some bizarre chance it actually ainst the queen Aoibheal held the throne above all four Houses of Fae royalty, and wielded the greatest power of all If Aoibheal wanted her, Aoibheal would get her Period

She had no choice but to fight and resist until the bitter end

Bracing herself for its rage, for whatever awful thing it would do to her once she asserted her refusal, she tipped her head back, and backto help you" She sucked in a shallow breath and held it anxiously

It stared down at her an inter nothing

And she waited, nerves strung like tiny wires being ruthlessly pulled by a puppeteer to near-breaking point