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"Dahtened, his warrior features carved froht, we do need to speak"

Sally sucked in an unsteady breath as the two eons without her

"Roke, if you abandon me here I swear I won’t help with the book"

Styx halted, sending her a puzzled frown "What book?" "Sally," Roke growled

She slammed her hands onto her hips It was no doubt suicidal to challenge two of the ht of being locked away overcame any claim to sanity

"I mean it," she snapped

The dark band around the pale, pale eyes narrowed, a sure sign of annoyance "You aren’t the only witch"

"Maybe not, but you’ll never find another who has ic," she reods knew she hated her connection to black ic It was the silared at one another in silence, then realizing he was going to eventually need her help, he conceded defeat with all his usual grace

"Shit," he growled, turning to sto with us"

Peaches

Roke clenched his teeth as they entered Styx’s private study and the large vampire shut the door behind them

He was furious with the female Hell, furious didn’t even cover it She’d bespelled hiainst his will, eons But, that didn’t keep hi a possessive hand on her shoulder as Styx ainst a heavy desk that held a computer and severalscent of peaches fros ache with a desire to sink them deep into her flesh and taste if her blood were as sweet as that tantalizing perfu his arms over his chest, Styx studied Roke’s tense expression before turning his attention to Sally

"I should warn you, Ms Grace, that this roo "Your ic won’t work here"

Roke snorted "Actually, you shouldn’t be so certain, old friend" His gaze slid to the tiny witch at his side "Ms Grace is full of surprises"

"Yes, I suppose she is," the Anassoto tell me how you two ended up mated?"

Roke watched in fascination as a blush crept beneath Sally’s pale face and for the first tiue and foolish courage, she was extreht make him feel like a letch? None of this catastrophe was his fault

"Do you want the honors?" he growled

Her blush deepened as she warily aze "I’ht off guard by her confession "What demon?"

Roke’s lips twisted into a humorless smile Welco hand as Styx’s lips parted "I truly don’t know But tostory short, over the last few years I’ve discovered an ability tocoerce people to obey ust "Coerce?"

"Maybe it’s more of an enchantment," she reluctantly conceded "But I’ve only used it once or twice on huh to influence demons, and then it was only a hellhound I never dreamed it could affect a vampire It was only because I was desperate I even tried"

Styx’s gaze transferred to Roke "And that’s when youuntil the initial spell was broken" Roke’s grip tightened on his companion’s slender shoulder "Or at least, when Sally claiesture, Sally lifted her ar beneath his nose

"You think that if there was a way to get rid of this I would hesitate for even a heartbeat?" she squawked "The last thing I want is to be tied to a leech"

Roke stiffened as her accusation sent a stab of anger through his heart As if he werewhat? Upset by her fierce rejection of their bonding? She was only saying as exactly on his s were interrupted by Styx

"You didn’t exchange blood?"

Roke shook his head, refusing to acknowledge the ruthless hunger that had plagued hie" Styx pushed away fro toward Sally "You have no idea what deic interferes with my senses Perhaps your blood" Styx’s words were bitten off as Roke abruptly shoved Sally behind his rigid body, his lips peeled back to es "Shit, Roke," the ancient va her blood," he snarled