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“He’s good with ers playing with the lapels of her robe, dropping to twist the ends of the belt at her waist “They like to pretend to be big men, but they’re sheep, him and Evert both”

“Yes” Dh the kitchen “They were s”

For the first tile her body to keep hiht Instead, she allowed him to come up behind her, to place his hand on the back of the wooden chair where she sat, brush his thuut-deep Her heart rabbiting against her ribs

Gritting her teeth, she held her position, a s of who she’d been before the pit “No screams,” she said, the words husky

“I hadto play his thumb over her now fear-dampened skin, he spoke to the other va him up in about twenty minutes”

Shae shuddered “I—Will—” Her eyes landed on Honor, not Dmitri “Will you stay? If he wakes up”

“Yes,” she said, caught by the irony of Shae looking to safety fro not to choke on the rancid taste of her own terror

Ded at a tiny curl of hair at her nape “Look up, Honor”

Illius sweeping through the air with a grace that otten drea out for an instant, he was at once very much a man, physical and sexual, and an unattainable fantasy

She could never see herself falling for such a beautiful ier But she could admire hiold, shadows that resonated with so hidden inside of her “Bluebell,” she said, re from Erotique “Pretty name”

“I call Dmitri Dark Overlord”

“Shae,” Dmitri said and the female vampire rose at once to walk quickly into the house “Now, pretty Bluebell”—another languid stroke across her skin—“tell the Overlord what you discovered”

Grinning, Illius a bare inch from Honor “I found this” He passed over a textured creahtstand, put there by the rab the envelope before Der under the flap to unseal it Inside was a single sheet of heavy paper with a very siins soon I hope you will find this prey as delicious as the first—the Guild has thepersonnel