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However, even that was better than sitting around twiddling her thu her apart choices
Before she spun the dial to lock the weapons safe hidden in the back of her closet, she slipped on the glossy black bangle Janvier had sent her in the mail a year before Snap it apart to reveal the ithin, and you were holding a lethally effective garrote The damn male knew her far too well Which hy she couldn’t understand his behavior after her injury The two of theed one another, and yes, they flirted, but the restthe kindness, the tenderness, it was crossing a line
He’d cradled her against his chest when she had trouble sitting up, fed her soup spoonful by spoonful It had felt war Because he was the one thing she could not have—and now he’d wrecked her hard-won equilibriu a few ood measure, she strode to the front door and yanked it open
“There you are, sugar,” said the two-hundred-and-forty-seven-year-old vampire on her doorstep, his hair the rich shade of the chicory coffee he’d once old
She bared her teeth at hiht I told you to go away” Last tiht her mint chocolate chip ice cream Her favorite She’d taken the ice cream and shut the door in his face in an effort to teach hihed, the wild, unabashed sound penetrating the flimsy shield of the door to sink into her bones, o away,” he pointed out in that voice accented with the unique cadence of his ho beneath the butter-soft tan leather of his jacket as he folded his ar away does it mean you send takeout deliveryht over shadow, scanned her head to toe “How else was I tocollapsed in the bathroom because you were too stubborn to call for help?”
“I didn’t get hit with the stupid stick anytime in the past couple of weeks” And, despite the somber predictions of her father in childhood, she had friends Honor had been by every couple of days, alternating with Ransom, Demarco, and Elena Naasir had filled her freezer with ht hours after the battle
“Protein will help you heal,” had been his succinct summation “Eat it”
A number of other hunters had dropped by to compare battle scars after they escaped hospital arrest Saki had stayed for two nights, caught Ashwini up on her parents in Oregon The older couple had once done Ashwini a great kindness, and while she’d been too dae an eenerosity As she couldn’t forget the way Janvier had held her in his lap in the old ar her hair as snow fell over the city
It was a moment she’d wanted to live in forever But she couldn’t “Out of the way,” she said, her anger at fate a cold, clawing thing inside her she’d never been able to tame despite her decision to live life full throttle “I’ri the door behind her, she strode down the hallway “The doctor gave me a clean bill of health” Even if he hadn’t, Ashwini knew her body It had been in hunter condition before the injury and she’d begun exercising as er she’d tear the wound open
“Ash” Janvier touched his hand to her lower back
“No touching” Gritting her teeth against the impact of him, she reached out to push the button to summon the elevator