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If you close the curtains for a moment, I’ll leave the rooht you’d prefer to wake in a room where there s
She’d been sleeping with hi in her own room, nested in the rock to ensure the sun couldn’t find her She didn’t wear the beautiful peach creation she’d had on that night she’d given hi that brought out her eyes, a sheer confection that showed him the shadow of her delectable body Hehis ti next to that
A saze shifted to theDev
“Sorry, love” Grunting, he pulled hily flexible, considering everything it had been through
“It’s the thirdcapabilities Once it settles in, even very serious wounds can heal quickly, though right now you needed the help of my blood And you’ve been out of it almost a day”
“H back to the bed, he bent to pick up the sheet and toss it on the ht had been blocked, sheher breasts and abdohs It was such a contrast to the horror of his drea to use that powerful i, to dispel the others
“I’m sorry, Dev,” she murmured “For all of it You did exceptionally well Lord Charles was beside himself”
“Well, pissing that bastard off is so to say, to loosen the squeezing grip of the drea unnaturally hard, he found just the thing “Don’t you owe me a reward?”
“Hotcakes?” She blinked innocently “I believe the cook is just waiting for you to drag your lazy arse out of bed” He h it sounded to his own ears Her eyes softened Lord, a woman’s colad for the one sliver of sun that had escaped fro her on the other side of it
Noasn’t the enerously offered, anyhow The shadoere too close, and he didn’t want them to taint it
“Dev” Her voice coaxed at him “Look at me”
When at last he turned, she looked toward the line pointedly He stepped to it at last, blocking the strea it, her fingers slim and smooth, she stepped across, so that when he moved out of that line, they were on the same side of the room, her body beneath his hands
Lifting on her toes, she rubbed her lips against his stubbled cheek As he closed his eyes, his hands gripped her hard enough to hurt a mortal woman She made a soft noise of reassurance, moved closer, let him bury his face in her hair
“I’lad you made it back, Dev”
She didn’t say the wrong thing Didn’t try to get him to talk about it, but then she didn’t need to, did she? And she didn’t tell him she was proud of him, proud of his ability to kill men who’d made bad choices, and children
“After we get things settled here, I’s for the house,” she continued softly “I’d like you to go withthe civilized” When he lifted his head, he saw that sain, only there was a shadow to it he found odd, like she almost expected him to say no Or
“Don’t be daft” Her blue eyes met his “Dev, I couldn’t have asked iven ive you the pleasures of good food and drink, and what you’ve earned from this body” With the hint of a mischievous sroan because it was sheer in back as well