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Better than a cold shower

"Nothing thatpsychopaths rarely h"

She tilted her head to the side, all too easily sensing the gnawing unease that plagued hi you What is it?"

Salvatore stiffened, battling the instinct to retreat fronored unless she was in his bed She was the woman destined to rule at his side

"He claims that he possesses the power to restore children to the Were"

There was a startled silence as Harley absorbed the significance of his words

"Easy to claim," she at last said "Does he have any proof?"

"It is all to be revealed when the tiht"

"Sounds like a bunch of mumbo jumbo crap to "

Salvatore toyed absently with his heavy signet ring, an unpleasant knot in the pit of his stolass of Kool-Aid"

"So why are you letting hiet under your skin?"

"Until I know the source of his power, I can’t fathom what he’s capable of There’s no doubt he’s convinced hi of Weres"

"If he was the true king, wouldn’t he be sitting on the throne?"

"So I always believed"

With a scowl, she crossed the carpet to stand directly before hiht be oblivious to her annoyance unless they were nose to nose

"Are you listening to yourself? You’re letting that rotting POS screith your head"

Salvatore arched a brow, startled by her fierce reaction Was it because she was terrified of Briggs? Or was it more personal?

Cristo, he wanted it to be personal

Intimately, deeply personal

Naked wouldn’t hurt, either

Unable to resist te had stolen ajust as important

Peace

An all too rare sensation in his life

"He has raised questions that need to be answered"

"What questions?"

Salvatore led Harley to the wide leather sofa set across the rooed her down beside hi on the hunt for Briggs and the bastard as puic It was a part easily overwhele need to protect this woman

Until he knew that Harley was safely in the hands of Styx and his Ravens, he wasn’t about to leave her side

"Whether or not the previous king was involved with the sas"

She shifted uneasily, but didn’t pull away Progress

"Is that what the Were told you?"

"Si"

"And you believe hirimaced "I don’t want to"

"But?"

He lifted his free hand to rub the nore the memory of Mackenzie’s peculiar behavior the last century of his life"

She flashed a dry s to have to bepeculiar was a prerequisite of kinghood"