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Hating all hu all ether as one unilaterally vile species And finally reod--so fuck thehlands for a time as Death hione-by back into that dark corner of his ly visited His oubliette, his place of forgetting Layers upon layers ofback thousands of years To immerse in it would be to invitetootheir kind, when the truth had been a subtle variation of that: It was not knohen to forget that did

"You don’t know Darroc, ka-lyrra," he said "He likes to play with his prey before he kills it He wouldn’t take the risk while I was touching you because, if he didn’t knock me out or kill me instantly, I could sift us to safety He didn’t bother to conceal himself and the Hunters this time with the féth fiada, because he wanted onize et er he noants you as lanced at her She’d twisted her long hair up in one of those clips that she was so fond of, and there was a little spiky tail sticking straight up, poking the roof of the car, bobbing perkily as they bounced and careened over the rough road She had on her soft suede jacket with the fleecy lining, the collar turned up, fra sun was a fiery ball sliding down behind Ben Killan, gilding her dainty profile as she nibbled her lower lip

And she was the bonniest da bens and sparkling burns

She was funny and stubborn and sexy and s to hi Gabrielle, he’d decided back in the suite, with his ar heaven as a et She’d responded to him with all the explosive passion he’d sensed in her the e of cliht her to it after they’d been interrupted, could have been merciful and relieved the tension in her body while they’d sifted, or even later on the train or plane

But he’d not been about to let her off so lightly He liked the thought of her stirred to painful awareness of hi with it, just like he was, constantly, painfully aware of her They would suffer together When he finally gave her that first orgasm, it would be followed by a dozenher his own

His human body, it seerowled:back For either of theured that out yet, she would soon

"To get to me He’s a twisted bastard He likes to take froaanna But he knows about you now, and he’s not going to stop coain Then opened it, "Would it get to you, if he took lanced at her, but she wouldn’t look his way There’d been a strained note in her voice For a novel change, her gaze was fixed firmly on the road ahead The question was important to her And to him "Yes, Gabrielle," he said with quiet intensity "It would"

"Oh" She was silent a long moment Then, "Are you sure we’ll really be safe at this place we’re going to?"

He smiled faintly She was as bad as he hen it ca subjects No matter There was tih time

"We already are; we’ve passed the wards The queen is alerted the moment a Tuatha Dé crosses her wards and coues of Keltar land, and those wards identify the trespasser This is the one place Darroc can’t coame would be over, and he’s not about to let that happen Besides, he has little familiarity with the human realht hi to find Circenn"

"Will the queen know that you’ve crossed her wards?"

"The wards were designed for a Tuatha Dé, which I aer, so I don’t think so"