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My instinct was to say ‘You can sod off’ But that would be the equivalent ofthat I wasn’t one hundred percent confident in ; he knew he had completely corneredon ive yourself false hope?"

In the space of two seconds there was a tiny knock on the office door, a feirl had barged into the office Immediately I didn’t like her because she was obviously Jared’s girlfriend With her shoulder-length pitch-black hair, her penetrating Keja-amber irises, chunky scarlet lips, and coal-black dress, she made me think of a witch She was beautiful, yeah, but she was also so skinny to the extent that she was all bony Her skiht to Jared Oh come on, there’s no meat whatsoever on those bones And she doesn’t even make up for it in the boob departht you’d have better taste than that

He looked aht

He didn’t look convinced, and well he shouldn’t I was jealous, which surprisedacross my bureau, but she quickly pasted a wide saze as she planted a kiss on his cheek Possessiveness twinkled in those eyes I really didn’t like that I was pretty sure that I’d later question why on earth it had bothered me so much

I smiled pleasantly at her "Hi, you must be Nancy" Da the possessive twinkle become paranoia

Her own s to Jared "Who’s Nancy?" Although she had clearly tried to sound aloof, she hadn’t at all pulled it off

Jared gave irls" No idea why he was playing along "Joy, this is Coered "Since when does a woman – or a Sventé, for that matter – work here?"

"Since she kicked my ass"

"So she’s the one who did that But she looks so, well, ordinary"

Before I could snap her head off her twig-like body Jared said, "Joy, it’s really not smart to irritate someone who could kill you easier than she can breathe"

The phone onould be theway to watch her die I answered quickly, "Hello?"

"Sam, luv, Sebastian’s here to see you," Fletcher infor up the phone than Sebastian was stood beforeon his ear He was h, by the look on his face I already had a pretty good idea what this was about

"One of ed to reach Victor and inforht Sebastian puffed "He et back there or he’ll huntme back hi Victor would say, considering he had always viewedhis consort and hislike that"

Is Victor your Sire? Jared asked

"The threat is pointless, of course," continued Sebastian "There is no way that Antonio will hand you over to Victor unless you wish to go of your own free will However, Victor insisted on you being personally given the e and for you to respond i back to him"