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Love came in many different forms

“It’s all true” Venoh his open , his profile so astonishingly perfect that her breath caught for a second “I’m deadlier than the deadliest snake in the world, with the ability to i immortals But you’re not too far behind”

“Try being used as a chew toy by an insane archangel,” Holly said with a grim smile “It does wonders for your poison, I hear”

No one knew exactly what Ura her drink his blood—that sickening memory, she’d finally recovered Buther friends remained a blank Either she’d been unconscious or he’d reat to know that a bloodborn archangelaround in her mind

Who knehat he’d left behind

What Holly did have was a lot y than even the majority of older vampires—she’d needed that infor to her

“But,” Veno I’m immune to your poisonous bite”

Holly scowled She’d bitten hi her psycho-PTSD phase, and he’d shrugged it off, but those bites had been mere scratches—and her toxic kiss hadn’t yet settled into its final forainst each other?”

Reaching over, Venom played with strands of her hair, which she’d scraped neatly back the instant after he’d taken the photograph “You look like that pony toy with a unicorn tail”

She slammed up an arm to knock him off “Answer the question And unicorn hair was the point, Mr Designer Cut and Dry” Every so often, Holly had to fight the urge to jump on Venom and mess him up

“Cohtly in his seat to face her profile—and the prickling over her skin turned into a swar bees “My venom cancels out yours and vice versa”

Holly stared straight ahead “Is my venom the same as yours?” It was a question she didn’t want to ask “Like a viper’s or a cobra’s or another snake’s?”

“No” His answer e “Mine tracks that way—though it’s a unique rowing in virulence”

Holly felt herinside her, the psychic tuer She knew it, had felt it Where would it end? In death? In psychotic el who’d been her blood sire? Worse?

“We could test it,” Venouidly sensuous tone she’d heard him use on the women who panted after him “Share our venom”

Holly found her feet again “Oh, gosh, let me think about it,” she said with a flutter of her eyelashes “The answer isA Big Fat No” She kneas jerking her chain He thought she was a spitting baby She thought he was a conceited ass That was the extent of their relationship

“Why does soh to put a bounty on your head?” His tone was serious this ti, also known as Sorrow That was the brief and it included a photo of you”

Holly nodded “I saw” The photo had been stored on the chief goon’s phone It had been of her striding out of a café where she’d taken herhad a weakness for cake that Holly fully exploited as she weaseled her way back into her races

“The instigator must kno you were Made,” Venom continued, his power a sinuous wave that wrapped around her before sliding away “Or they suspect”

Holly fought to keep her breathing even Venoames, but not like that Not in here they weren’t on equal ground She was sensing his power so vividly either because her own sensitivity had increased as a result of the ongoing changes in her body—or because Venoer in the two years since she’d last seen him in person