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"I have a few contacts outside the city," Madding said "I’ll have thes up for you A house in a suard or two You’ll be cos here?"

His eyes unfocused briefly "I’ve sent one of ht We’ll store your belongings here for now, then send thehbors will never even see you move out"

So neat and quick, the destruction of my life

I rolled ontonot to think After a moment, Mad sat up and leaned away fro a sh it I could not see what he picked up, but I saw hier, at which I scowled

"I’m not in the mood," I said

"It’ll make you feel better Which will odsblood now that people think you’re willing to kill over it?"

"No," he said, though his voice was sharper than usual, "because I’ive a dale dark drop of blood, like a garnet, sat there "See? It’s already shed Shall I waste it?"

I sighed, but finally leaned forward and took his finger intowith other, stranger flavors that I had never been able to name The taste of other realle of it in my throat as I sed, all the way down into o As I had suspected, the wound was already closed; I just liked teasing hih

"This is why the Interdiction happened," he said, lying back down beside me He rubbed little circles on the small ofabout sex again Greedy bastard

"Hodsblood spread its power throughout ivenprecisely six inches off the floor Hadn’t been able to get down for hours Madding was no help; he’d been too busy laughing his ass off Fortunately, all I usually felt was a pleasant relaxing sensation, like drunkenness but without the hangover So "What are you talking about?"

"You" He brushed his lips againsta lovely shiver down ertips,insanity So many of us have been seduced by your kind, Oree; even the Three, long ago I used to think anyone who fell in love with a mortal was a fool"

"But now that you’ve tried it, you see the error of your ways?"

"Oh, no" He sat up, straddled s, and slid his hands under uid pleasure, though I couldn’t help giggling when he nibbled at the back of ht It is a kind of insanity You s we shouldn’t"

My smile faded "Like eternity"

"Yes" His hands stilled for a moment "And more than that"

"What else?"

"Children, for one"

I sat up "Tellbefore that I didn’t have to take the same precautions with hi ive you a child, if I wanted If you wantedto break the only real law the Three have ever imposed on us"

"Oh" I settled back into the cushions, relaxing as he resu about demons Children of mortals and immortals Monsters"

"They weren’t monsters It was before the Gods’ War, before even I was born, but I hear they were just like us--godlings, Ithe stars as we do; they had the sarew old and died, no e But not hed "It’s forbidden to create more demons, but… ah, Oree You’dto not pay attention to hi lovely things that transcended words He had slipped one hand between s "So the Three were afraid you’d all… ah… fall in love with erous little demons"