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"Lummox?" he muttered

"It’s a word" He sensed her shift on the bed Gods His jeans tightened painfully over his growing erection "What are you doing?"

Don’t look Do Not Look

"I would think it’s rather self-evident"

"I guess it is Hard to ? Difficult to tell," she taunted "I assu"

"And then?"

Pain ripped through his chest, nearly sending hio"

She breathed a shockingly vile curse "So, you’re fleeing back to your prison…oh, I h MTV and YouTube, isn’t it, chief?"

His hands clenched into fists at her accusation, refusing to consider the bitter truth of her words

"Return to Styx, Regan He’ll be able to track Culligan"

"I don’t need hiritted "I already found hi to build were shattered as Jagr jerked his head around to stab her with a shocked gaze

"What?"

Her eyes flashed, as if pleased at by his sharp reaction "Where do you think I picked up that handy-dandy little aht add, that was confiscated by your friend Tane before he would let r shook his head Later he would thank Tane for ensuring that Regan couldn’t slip up on hi but the realization that she’d found the imp who had tored "He was alive when I left the cabin, but his odds of living through the night are about zero to none Not once the curs realize he’s just as pathetic at being bait as he is at being an i into the thick carpet, his da across his back Not that he noticed He was utterly consumed by the tiny female perched on the end of the bed

"You found the is on r frowned She was behaving as if finding the demon responsible for her years of misery, a de an, you’ve waited your entire life to have your revenge"

The eaze never wavered "I’m well aware of that"

"Then why didn’t you take it?"

"I told you"

He growled low in his throat as he studied her stubborn expression

Okay, it was official

The woe

"There had to be more than just a need to findto back down He didn’t understand why he had to know Only that he did "Killing him would have taken you less than a heartbeat Tellso close to him that his entire body was bathed in sweet jasmine heat

"Christ, I don’t know," she rasped "I suppose a part of it was the fact that he looked so incredibly pathetic chained in that cabin For so eyan to think of hiave a shake of her head "But then I saw hih the sewers because he didn’t have the talent or intelligence or spine to be a decent "

He trembled with the need to pull her into his arh his very soul

This was more than lust More than an instinctive need to protect

This was…

Gods, he didn’t knohat to call it

He only knew that it had buried so deep inside him that he’d never be rid of it

"And the other part?" he demanded, his voice thick

"I realized I didn’t need to kill hione"