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Adah he appreciated Drustan’s forhted that his ka-lyrra was finally beginning to see hi little to appease hi Gabrielle around the twins

He didn’t like it Didn’t like it one bit There was too much testosterone in the room And all of his--no inconsiderable aeus wereto ease his mind Really, did she have to smile at them like that? Didn’t she understand they were men and men were not to be trusted around a woedly were? And Christ, he couldn’t evenher in s, because each time he did it, it onlyinvisible more Around normal men back in Cincinnati it had been of no consequence, but the Keltar were not normal men

He toyed irritably with his e it back and forth between his pal the MacKeltars a black look--which of course they couldn’t see, but it lass, and began pacing the library It was a spacious, masculine room with cherry bookcases recessed in paneled walls, comfortable chairs and ottomans, a dusky rose marble fireplace, and tall bay s He circled it, absently exa them in on their--ah, no, her--version of events to date He’d tried to get her to tell it his way, but she’d seehted by the opportunity to tell the MacKeltars all about how her life had gotten so screwed up since his advent into it

Gwen and Chloe weresympathetic little noises, and he could just s on in the roo, except for the invisible person

Bloody hell, he was hungry But did he get to eat? No Gabby had spoken for both of theht snack in the library

Shortbreads, candies, and nuts? A er fare

And she’d not yet even gotten to the part where Darroc and the Hunters had appeared yet Gwen and Chloe seemed fascinated by the notion of Sidhe-seers and had been asking dozens of utterly unnecessary questions about what it was like to be one At this rate, it could take all night to get to the important parts--like what Adam needed the to wonder if she’d even hnassadh

Currently she was elaborating about those idiotic, apocryphal O’Callaghan Books, and Chloe, antiquities lover and relentless bookwor to set up a tier, his queen was at risk, Darroc was trying to kill theging books!

It mollified him only mildly to hear her say, "You’re welcoht have gotten a lot of stuff wrong"

About high daaze raking over her possessively Willing her to look up at him To make him feel less invisible

But she didn’t soyet another irrelevant question

He was just about to stalk out and go help hihtfully, "So ’tis the féth fiada he’s cursed with that keeps us fro him?"

Adam’s head whipped around "What does he know of it, ka-lyrra?" he said, suddenly alert Dageus was another hus he’d endured in the past year had changed hied hieus had encountered himself in the past--which should have canceled one of theh Council had so fir them had been driven by more nefarious motives, like Darroc

"Yes, it is, and Adam wants to knohat you know of it," Gabby related for hieus smiled faintly "More than I e’er wished to I used it o We call it the’Tis no’ easy to wear; ’tis a chilling spell There are two versions of it The version the MacKeltars were taught, and the spell the Draghar knew--a much more potent, triuue I ne’er used that version"