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Just for a second he thought he could glih her dark eyes Sy likely
The female was in pure ice mode
"And since you’re here to claim your inheritance, it would be a wasted effort to search for him"
"Half truths and evasion, Nefri?" He leaned forward, drawing deeply of her jas about me"
A smile curved his lips as he felt her faint tremor Not fear Nefri was a wo Or anyone
No, it wasn’t fear But need
"I know ers stroking up the back of her arm to her shoulder "Which is why you bolted behind the safety of your Veil"
Her extravagantly long lashes lowered to hide her eyes, but it was too late
They both knew she was vulnerable to his touch, even if she would rather have her tongue cut out than to adrasp, her steps o let her take several steps, keeping his hands at his side He had an ace up his sleeve
"He was here, but he left," he said softly "One, o"
Nefri froze, her back held raht, before she slowly forced herself to turn and aze
"Gaius?"
"Who else?"
The dark eyes narrowed and Santiago knew she eighing her desire to keep walking against her mysterious duty to the Oracles
In the end there really was no choice
For either of them
"How do you know?" She at last forced the question past her stiff lips
"He’smoreed Did she think he was lying? "There was soed "It didn’t kick in until I reached this lair, but now I can feel hiether "Why?"
Santiago moved to stand directly before her, obsessed by the need to keep her close
"Since I’m 100 percent certain you know a hell of a loton," he drawled, "why don’t you explain it to me?"
She took a deliberate step backward "I have no information"
Step forward "Nefri"
"What?"
"Can you sense hiers lifted to touch the"No"
He reached out to capture her fingers, which still clutched the ainst the soft curve of her breast "Can you catch his scent?"
"No"
"Then you need me"
"Your lack of ance"
A wicked smile curved his lips at her icy rebuttal "Oh no, cara, the rules of the ga another Not that she was going to concede defeat Not without a fight Good Strong woame?"
"The last time you called the shots, this tiht the un the back steps
No Oh no Fate couldn’t be that cruel
But it see of a backyard was being shoved open and a tiny gargoyle waddled into the kitchen
"Did so die in here?" the creature"I so with a sour smile--"vampire"