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But that can’t happen todaycan it? she reasoned with herself, but the sudden pounding of her heart refused to be calmed Zakhar was one of the last absolutein front of her was its king If she just disappearedould knohat had happened to her? Who would dare to question the king?
Her eyes widened and her breath quickened as her body auto in a fight-or-flight reflex that told her torun, damn it! Run! Her fear must have coe of so she couldn’t decipher It almost looked likepain But that didn’t make sensedid it?
“Do not run, Juliana,” he said softly, reassuringly “You have nothing to fear from me You never did” It wasn’t that easy, of course She couldn’t just turn off the panic at a word from him Especially since his words didn’t stop there “When I , his deep voice curling inside her,her knees weak, “you will come to me of your own free will You will come to me because you wantHe didn’t say the words, but his vivid green eyes told her he remembered
A memory flashed into her mind, a memory she’d resolutely suppressed until now And suddenly she was seeing Andre as she’d seen hiht, glohat she’d fooled herself into believing was love She was hearing his voice, that deep, throbbing voice she still heard in her dreains”
“Never,” she whispered fro the sensual web he eaving Fighting herself “Never again”
His faint smile returned and his voice dropped a notch “You ant ain, Juliana That is a promise, not a threat And when I take you, you will understand why” With that parting shot Andre turned on his heels and strode away
Arrogant Breath hissed out of Juliana as she watched hiuests, so suave, so debonair, so entlely lass of cha to cool her parched throat But that was ato eat all day and the alcohol went right to her head, ht wildly Maybe it’s him
He turned just then, his eyes staring at her froh she couldn’t see the color of his eyes at that distance, she felt those green orbs stripping her dress off until she shivered And trembled The power in hi her under his spell the way it had always done He was awas secondary But that was just as frightening as the idea that he ht kidnap her and hold her captive until he was ready to let her go
If he ever let her go
Moveaze away froratefully as she saw Dirk and Sabrina nearing Sabrina earing a sequined sky blue tunic belted over a long silver skirt, with the delicate filigree sapphire necklace and earrings that suited her Juliana knew Dirk had given theo fro role, and she wore them often Like Juliana, she had “matched her eyes” with her dress, and from a distance she looked as lovely as she always did But close up her smile looked forced, and there were two tiny lines of pain bracketing her mouth
“Bree, are you okay? You look—”
Sabrina’s s, just a twinge, that’s all” She turned in the direction where Juliana had been staring when she walked up “That is a dangerous man,” she said softly, and Juliana couldn’t hide her sharp intake of breath “He’s why you didn’t want to return to Zakhar” The eyes of the to, sympathetic
Dirk spoke for the first ti of Zakhar I’ve seen the portrait of the first king in the portrait gallery, and Ireseenes would be diluted to the point where the resemblance would be nonexistent, but no” He reached over and rubbed the backs of his fingers coainst Juliana’s cheek “He wants you, babe,” he added casually “And he looks like the kind of ets what he wants”