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Valeria’s eyes closed, her body shuddering from the contact with his muscled body “I would take the credit”—a husky whisper—“but you’d find h would’ve ut and run as far as huot an invitation” A greedy look over at Honor “Her fear was so potent by the ti Not for weeks”
Dentle “You kept the invitation, didn’t you?”
“Yes It was aher for me, Dmitri? Can I have her all to ain, not knohy she believed that would do any good, not even knohy she thought she could possibly read this vampire so old and powerful it made her bones ache to think about it
“First tellthe fact that Valeria had tugged open the tie of her robe to expose creamy skin framed in crimson “I want to knoho else has your tastes”
“But I want her to asmed at the coht screams “They say you make it hurt, Dmitri”
In response, he used his grip on her hair to pull her head back so hard it made tears form in her eyes She licked her lips, made no effort to cover the dark pink nipple exposed by the shift of satin over skin “To my turn with her”
Honor re with the deeperher to stay
“We’ll play together” The sound of clothes brushing up against each other, the wetness of a slow kiss “You know you like the way I play”
The ether the two of them hadthey’d made Honor scream Her hand clenched on Dmitri’s T-shirt as he moved the hand not in Valeria’s hair to close around her throat “Just Tommy?”
“There were others, but I never saw We had our own ti
“The invitation, Valeria” Unvarnished command “Tell id muscle of his chest with possessive hands Honor wanted to break into a thousand pieces “In my bedrooers trailing down to tug up his tee, revealing skin of a warain, her eyes shifted to Honor “I want her”
That hen Dainand slit her throat with about asdown prey, the heavy blade a sleek silver shiht
As the feripped her by that throat and pinned her against the ith the blade thrust into her neck “Don’t pull it out,” he ordered when Valeria went to do exactly that “Or I’ll cut off your hands”
Honor had jerked up her gun at the first slice, but now her eyes met Dmitri’s as he raised an eyebrow She shook her head “I can’t shoot her now” Not when the vampire was pinned like an insect, the red satin of her robe a wetter, richer shade, her skin bloody cream
Dmitri moved toward Honor, and she realized that aside froed to avoid getting any blood on hiush—which led to the very scary conclusion that he’d done this before “You,” he said, touching her chin with the fingers of his clean hand, before ripping out the roses fro it to wash the bloody one clean, “are too human”
Yes It was a welcome shock, a confirmation that she’d retained the core of herself no matter the horror of that dark pit where Valeria and Torotesque friends had used her until they tore her very spirit to tatters Walking past D else you’d like to share aboutand assault?” to the monster with the wide blue eyes
D over to choose a chocolate from the crystal bowl on a nearby table When Valeria bared her teeth at Honor, refusing to answer the question, he shot the other woh, in almost precisely the spot where the feh and shrill
Honor understood that the punishments used for immortals, their bodies able to recover from brutal injuries, weren’t the same as for mortals But she’d never been up close and personal with the merciless reality of it “Does it bother you at all?” she asked Ded, shoulders race beneath the thin cotton of his T-shirt “No” Putting his gun down beside the crystal bowl, he said, “Valeria, be a good hostess and answer Honor’s question,” before popping one of the chocolates into hiselse,” the vampire sobbed, her eyes rimmed red with her tears “J-just about T-To how Valeria had sipped at her own tears, how she’d giggled when Honor screaet to Tommy” She didn’t knohat Valeria heard in her voice, but the vampire suddenly looked afraid in a way Honor would have never expected in a va, reain as the wound began to heal around the heavy hunting knife
“I wouldn’t” D fear, Valeria continued to speak to Honor, eyes shi with tears “He was the one who hurt you—I just wanted to feed”
Yes, Tommy had hurt her, as only a ed him on Before that, his physical assaults had been relatively s—the bastard had enjoyed her bloodelse Valeria, however, had always been very inventive when it was just her and Honor in the dark