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Grant spun around suddenly Lucien was standing behind him

Grant had to be rattled, but he didn’t show it "You could just be a really excellent ician," he said

"But I’m not, and you know it," Lucien said "Don’t you?"

Grant didn’t reply

Lucien shrugged "We’re going to get out of here now It would be best if we remained Clay and Liz, as far as the others are concerned I would prefer that the truth about me be on a need-to-know basis"

Jade ss one a little outside the line for our François"

"Speed up?" Stephanieaze

"Stephanie," he said si on the door and ran to it

Her heart was thundering She was so afraid that one of the others had co

A bad word

He couldn’t have had a relapse…

He could have

Without thinking, she threw the door open

She stood stock-still for a minute, deeply confused

She felt the eyes

Felt them on her, and then…

She opened the door farther It as wanted

She was di back down the stairs, anxious to find out what the tapping had been

"Lena?"

Suzette froze on the bottom stair

He was already inside And he looked at her, and shtly

Suzette’sBut she reh, she was trying to fight He frowned Walking toward her, he felt a sudden repulsion

Then he knehy He saw the silver piece around her neck, and sed A shiver went through hirily and backed away

"First things first!" he said "Lena, go take that… that thing off Suzette’s neck!"

Obediently, Lena turned to her friend Suzette ed to lift a hand, as if she could stop Lena But then, she hadn’t that th

He was pleased with hiirls, and he’d toyed with the idea of only playing with one And here they were, together How lovely, and how convenient And how veryit fro roorabbed a pillow from the couch and threw it on top of the offensive piece

"And now!" he said "The two of you… ah, well!"

They were huddled at the botto at hieous with her inky eyes; the other, a little snow princess, blond with blue eyes

Oh, yes This could be the greatest entertainment he had yet afforded himself Better, even, he mused, than the prize he awaited

But the real prize was power And he craved that more than any other sensory pleasure he could take at will

But for the er down Suzette’s peaches-and-cream arm, then stroked the rise of Lena’s breast

"Suzette, you will undo those buttons frolanced at his watch, and cursed

It wasn’t going to be quite as much fun as he had intended

"Make it quick!" he barked at Lena

He needed to hurry And still…

It was indeed entertaining He savored the taste of the blonde while the brunette stroked and soothed her