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Adah the other end Irritably, he folded the paper over it and shoved it under an ar, reflective lare, eyes narrowed, teeth bared "Enough My life is not an open O’Callaghan Book, Sidhe-seer, to flip through as you wish and make all manner of bloody idiotic interpretations The Tuatha Dé do not speak of Tuatha Dé ave her an icy sneer--"mere mortals"

"Well, ht back at hiet used to it, because whether or not you like it, you need at least one of us ‘ again"

He tried to maintain his icy stare, but his lips curved despite his efforts and he shook with silent laughter A ponity of it Had any of his race ever been called such a thing? Nothing cowed the woathered the bags and turned to head for the kitchen, he added over his shoulder, "For the record, I’ve just told youti?" The moment she said it, Gabby wanted to kick herself But she wanted to know Wanted to knoho the last womaner, human, ho had truly known Adam Black

He stopped and turned back to look at her When his obsidian gaze met hers, Gabby suddenly felt a little chill in her blood Sohtening incongruity to his face, as if so out at her from behind a Halloween ethat, were she to so very much like alike a Hunter beneath it

He made a small sound then, a tired sound Not a sleepy sound, but an i away

She heard the refrigerator door open and close Then silence Then his deep, rich burr floated softly through the suite, "Since 847, Gabrielle"

It was one in theby the ti over what Adanificance of the dates Morganna had died mid–ninth century, had refused his offer of iht around that tihans but oodles of others, on a violent raanna?

Had Adae when he’d lost her? And if so, why had he permitted her to die? He’d been all-powerful; he could have forced her to stay alive, forced her to take his "elixir of life" (which was a anna? What had she been like? Why had she refused it? How long had Adam spent with her? Had she lived her whole life with hi with a Fae prince beside her in bed? Been spoiled every day by his crazy excesses, gone to sleep sated each night in his arms?

What had been so special about her that he’d tried to make her immortal?

"I could really hate that woman," she muttered beneath her breath

Adam Black had had a relationship with a mortal woman, fathered a son with her, tried tooh, for heaven’s sake, she thought, exasperated, jealous Envious that she kept denying herself, but Morganna hadn’t No, Morganna had taken what he offered, plunged right into it, taken all of it She’d touched hione to bed with him She’d played with all that silky dark hair, felt it sweeping over her naked body She’d tasted gold-velvet fairy skin, had sizzling hot fairy sex with hihlands In his grief? Or had it merely been the petulance of a child denied his favorite toy?

Who cares? I wouldn’t e voice cooed drea Why settle for normal when you could have a life full of fairy tail?

"Shut up," sheyour two cents’ worth in And spare , she punched the pillows, plu it over the sofa bed She’d just gotten it arranged when he came up behind her, slipped his hands around her waist, and pulled her back against hi body scorched her through her clothing and she could taste his exotic spicy scent on each shallow breath she drew