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He’d started taking more control, which she’d seeo, he’d positioned her on all fours, s to propel his thrusts When he’d felt her coth, he’d reached forward to cover herdown on his forearripped by an erotic dreas Just as he’d once hoped, he’d awakened with his shaft buried deep inside his wife, his hps pounding between her thighs

When he’d realized what he was doing, he eased hisinto the muscles of his ass “Don’t stop, Thronos So close! I’ll be quiet”

Over these days, he’d done things that he could tell had surprised her She’d cry, “Oh!” then folloith a breathy, “Ohhh” To tell him she liked it

Just as she’d promised in Inferno, she always let hierly his lusty mate took his seed with her body, her hands—and yes, her rin that spread over his face

Until he realized that all attention was on hie?” Jasen asked

About? Thronos coughed into his fist “I think we’ll pick this up to you”

I have a family He and Melanthe were an army of two

He could fly, without pain, to ed in the weeks since he’d taken her He srin

As a girl, Melanthe had snared his heart with it

As a woer

I have her had becoht He couldn’t be certain how she’d react, but he would never again keep so co her opening to Sabine The letter would go out in one hour—and would prove even ht

Sabine and Rydstroun

My dearest sister,

How I do adore Skye Hall! I now enjoy cooking and cleaning, tasteful jokes, and deold at all!

JK JK! I wouldn’t know if I like any of that shit, because I’ve never tried it My lust for gold is as strong as ever, er

Your little sis is quite a boss

And she’s totally in love with a Vrekener

In Inferno, Thronos had asked her if she’d ever been in love She’d answered, “I’ve never known roirl, Lanthe had loved Thronos—fiercely

Deep down, maybe she’d never stopped Maybe it’d always been there, waiting to blooile sprout of affection that she’d copped to in faux Feveris had grown intoa , they’d even started coloring how she viewed Vrekeners

Lanthe could still call them lame—but if anyone else did, she’d shut that down

Sabine, when you read the rest of this letter, please keep an open mind I’ing change to Rothkalina, I plan to here Once all the dust settles, you can give me queenly pointers!

When Lanthe felt a vibration of power, she frowned, laying the quill down She sensed sorcery—not hers

She leapt to her feet So, a threat to the people here She raced for the assembly hall

Where was everyone? Was it dinnertime already?

Lanthe hastened toward the vibration, out the front doorway of the Hall A portal was opening, right before her eyes

On the freaking steps of Skye Hall

Her jaw dropped when Sabine ealia, with a broad gold headdress atop her flame-red tresses A metal breastplate served as her top, and a jade mask adorned her face

Sabine was a jolt of color in thisyou,” Sabine said blithely as she traipsed onto Vrekener land “Look at your necklace—is that red gold? To die for! It al!”

“As I feared, the Vrekeners brainwashed you, just like so et you back When we return to Rothkalina, I’ me I want to stay with Thronos”

As if Lanthe hadn’t spoken, Sabine said, “The stress of all you’ve been through isn’t helping I know about the Order, about your fight to stay alive About your capture and imprisonment here”

“I’m not imprisoned! Why would I still have“How did you find the Skye, Sabine?” Can others?

“The same way that Dacian vampire did: with a one-of-a-kind scry crystal It’s been tucked away in hidden Dacia for ages Anyway, the leech let us borrow it And then we used a portal power similar to yours”

“We?”

With a wave of her hand, Sabine used her sorcery to make Lanthe’s necklace invisible “I wouldn’t want that to be taken frola with fear when Morgana ealia