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During ation by the sentience on the world with three ht Court and Dark Court were for the Seelie and Unseelie The king’s memories had always held some kind of shadowed murkiness, a masculine darkness They’d been visceral, blunt, cast in harsh shades of icy blues, bleached whites, and inky blacks

The presence I’d encountered today was the polar opposite: brilliant as a sun, radiant, gentle, feminine, and the flowers on the vast mound had been every color of the rainbow plus countlessNature herself eins of the Fae Wondered how the Seelie could be so eic I’d felt today was so war I wondered if the True Race had always been the way they were now, or if soe them

Then I wondered no more because Barrons entered the room and my body quickened with interest, desire, anticipation, lust

He passed behind htly touched my hair, and headed for the door "Get some sleep You need it," was all he said

I openedthen remembered all the reasons I never asked Barrons that question and said instead, "Jericho"

He stopped walking instantly, turned, and stared at o?" I asked

"No"

"Then why are you?"

His dark gaze was inscrutable "Because this is e do You and I Leave each other alone"

Whuh I went still, processing what he’d just said I’d heard it completely differently than he’d said it I’d heard: You, Ms Lane, have always set the pace, the ground rules, determined the e behave with each other I toe yourline

I opened e that? Then realized the cowardice inherent It was hypothetical, fishing, seeking reassurance, shifting the weight of any decision or co to puthie that," I said carefully "I think it would be nice if we spent ed because it sounded far hokier hanging in the air all naked and exposed like that than it had in my head Noould mock me, toss some pithy co I wanted to have sex

He did none of those things,in his ancient obsidian eyes "What do you have in er here