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He ground his fangs, longing to strangle this bitch--not pleasure her Pride stinging, he reht now? He kicked off his boots and yanked his shirt over his head

"Very nice" She watched him avidly, like his brothel patrons of old

He felt as ust for her as he had for his first customer, a hideous serpent shifter with keyhole pupils, slits for nostrils, and a scaling bald head

Please or perish Though the des, the fey in hi the serpent fe her body with hiscalm had descended over hih the serpent’s forked tongue had flicked across his throat, Rune’s slanted grin never wavered "Ah, dove, the things I plan to do to you"

He’d gotten through that; he could do this Turn your mind from this room, this situation That familiar coldness washed over hi of her He should have told her the whole truth: I’ll be holding on to you He’d cling to what he felt for her

Because right now his heart was cold ash

If he did this, would he extinguish what Josephine felt for him? She’d seen his oing to be a whore again, only this tih’s words: "You’ve been a whore for so long, I thought we should oblet, Meliai said, "I can’t wait to see your cock It’s supposed to be legendary"

"It’s the only part that ht stood out: I never stopped being a whore

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Rune is ruin

Jo paced outside the tree entryway, her hands balled into fists She needed to go somewhere and scream What was so weird--if she left, Rune would coo, and she believed hi stars, he’d brushed his fingers over her cheekbones and assured her he had a plan B

He’d known screwing the nymph was a possibility

A flash of a drea back in his chair in Orion’s stronghold "If one of h to want more," he’d told his allies, "then she deserves all the heartache in the worlds"

Huh This stupid tart got what she deserves

A beautiful blonde loitered by the entrance, watching her intently Could that be Dalli, Rune’s "friend with benefits"? Add soo fuck herself with an oak splinter when she scented a demon

Deshazior??