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Meeting the waran squir, captivating, coan didn’t want to love her sister Or feel the growing connection

"I…"

"Eat," Darcy fir that an of why she avoided emotional cor

Blinking back ridiculous tears, Regan took a plate and filled it with a large helping of the eggs and ha the last of her wounds that re silver

She still felt as weak as a newborn babe

Strangely vulnerable, Regan wolfed down her food, her eyes darting about the aze

"Yes, I know It’s outrageous, isn’t it?" Darcy ilt and ivory "And as hard as it is to believe, the rest of the mansion is even worse"

"It’s certainly not what I’rew up in the streets, and Styx lived in a damp cave for centuries" She softly chuckled "The poorto break soan shot her sister a puzzle glance

"If you don’t like it, why do you live here?"

"Viper convincedof Vaoing to repay hierous sive the honor to Shay She does a fine job of punishing him when necessary"

"Shay?"

"Hisher clan chief in line" Darcy’s s to love her And of course there’s Abby, who is oddess Oh, and Anna is an Oracle, she’s an polished off the last of the food and returned the plate to the tray, sinking back into the pilloith a sy returning Within a few days she would be well enough to strike out on her own

That’s all that mattered

And that hollow place in the center of her heart…

Well, that was one of those prices she had to pay

"You lost hts

"Don’t worry, you’llour mother She’s…" Darcy paused to clear her throat "Perhaps I should let you decide for yourself"

Christ, she’d forgotten there was a round

"That sounds oed "Just expect more Sharon Osbourne than June Cleaver"

"I don’t expect anything" Reganshe wanted wasa whole posse of vampire mates ere no doubt deliriously happy Not toenough to uise her disappoint soan tried to lighten the atmosphere, but Darcy’s expression remained soan There’s no hurry for you to leave"

"No hurry?" Regan couldn’t hide her shudder "I’ve been stuck in a cage for the past thirty years I need…"

"What?"

"To feel free"

Darcy tilted her head to the side "And you can’t do that here?"

"I don’t know"

"Regan" Once again Darcy reached out to grasp Regan’s hand, as if she needed the physical contact "Styx told me about Caine How he kidnapped us ere just babies"

Regan stiffened at the mention of the cur who’d ruined her life

"Bastard"