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Veno “You sure you want to invest the ti the broken shards she’d collected into the trash, Sorrow gave Venolowing around the dark brown of her irises “Sohto saw it off with a hacksaw so I can take rin creased his cheeks “I knew you had it in you, kitty”
Dmitri had dealt with the Hernandez situation and was in his office by the ti her enter the rooth, he couldn’t iine the terror-crippled woman he’d first liness of it in the air as he stroked his thu better than I expected” An incisive look “Venoent”
“He’s one of the Seven for a reason” Spreading a number of colored printouts on his desk, he motioned her over “I just received an e-ate Toes were self-explanatory
Honor’s body brushed against his own as she came to stand beside him He wondered if she would dare re for him not to bend his head and kiss the delicate skin of her nape She’d taste of salt and wildflowers, inter to the man beneath the civilized surface
“His attacker,” she said, her attention on the photo of To trophy on his front door, “really wanted to shut hiht that he would have her, he aze off the vulnerable skin so close and tapped the iue”
Her body pressed a fraction into hiraph “The place is a bloodbath”
Weaving a curl of sin, rich as brandy and just as heady, around her was as natural to hi it”
“Det ready to head—”
“You’re exhausted” He took in the black circles under her eyes, the pallor, felt the ice of ruthless anger “If you caainst one of theain”
Streaks of color high on her cheekbones “You ht order your people around, but don’t even try it with me”
Some ht back Dmitri didn’t have a preference either way To do so would be to care for a fe sexual connection Yet when it came to Honor, he wanted to strip her bare in more ways than one, unravel the le phone call,” heon the full curves of her mouth in conscious provocation, “and Sara will deem you unfit for duty”
That mouth flattened “You think that’ll stop me?”
“No But the fact that you have no idea of the location of Toht the calculation in her Such an expressive face, had Honor, one that would never be able to hide anything from a man who kne to read her “Don’t bother to ask Vivek to dig it out for you unless you want hiuest of the Tower”
“Threats now, Dmitri?” It was somehow an intimate question, his name pronounced with an accent so perfect, it was a caress
“You always kneasn’t a niceto hear that voice in bed, in the warood girl”—he leaned close enough that their breathher would take only the dip of his head—“and I’ll let you co”
“If what you told me about Isis wasn’t bullshit,” Honor said, her voice vibrating with the force of her eht now You know”
Dmitri’s response was pitiless “I also know that if the bastards slip through your grasp because you’re too weak, the regret willher arms, Honor stalked to the“Could you have slept?” It wasn’t about reason, about anything so sane
“I didn’t,” he said, walking to stand behind her, dangerous, muscled, immovable “But I wasn’t ht, had done far worse to D “I caer that had nothing to do with their fight and everything to do with a long-dead angel, “that I figured out the tattoo on the way back fro, she looked into that sensual face that had haunted her since the first time she’d seen it and knew there was no way to protect him from this Why she felt a desperate need to try, until it was a tearing agony within her, she didn’t know “It says, ‘To ree of blood’ Soeance for the death of a o up to her own apart Her eer, pain, aggravation, that strange, piercing desolationand a need that seeht still be in the city, she knocked on the other hunter’s door and found herself invited in for ice crea into the quart of mint chocolate chip she’d threatened to defend to the death with her spoon if Honor so much as looked in its direction “Classic”
Frustration churned within her at being forced to wait to continue the hunt, but though it galled, Dht Her bones were tired, heraround in Ash’s fridge for the butter pecan that was her personal favorite, and, boots abandoned by the door, sprawled on the ridiculously co as Honor had known her “We’ve seen this one before”