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He sat up, letting the light sheet fall away from his body, and stared out in the darkness She was a lot like him Except she was also a vampire, which meant she wouldn’t hesitate to lie to a human, to him, if she felt it was in his best interest Wouldn’t even flicker a guilty eyelash over it The supercilious, blond, blue-eyed delicious pain in the arse
She was going after Ruskin alone He’d bet his life on it
Thank God there was phone service He got the shipping co and verified his lady had indeed chartered a Dakota back to her place He was thinking hiot her down for another trip out to the Top End”
Dev froze, his fingers squeezing down on the heavy receiver “When?”
“Oh, right, sorry Actually I should have said we did have her down for that trip Plane should have picked her up for that last night”
Dev swore, and hung up “I need a car,” he told the dispatcher “Where can I get hold of a fast one?” It was full daylight when Dev got to Lord Alistair’s home Dev asked to see Thos, explaining the situation in terse sentences
“She’s gone after Lord Charles Ruskin on her own,” he concluded “I know she has She’ll have soy in her head, but she’sI think we need to be there”
Thomas rubbed a hand over his face “I sympathize, Dev, but if you think Lord Alistair will involve hiht, you haven’t learned enough about vampire politics”
“What about Lady Lyssa?” he persisted
Thoently, “we can’t interfere—”
“Oh, bollocks,” Dev snapped “I sa it is between the two of them Will Lady Lyssa sit by while Danny is torn apart by Ruskin and his pack of vao? Because that’s ill happen”
“I think you underestimate her”
Dev turned to find Lady Lyssa standing in the shadows of the darkened dining roo to her curves, her dark hair waving around her face like a sorceress’s tresses Jesus, apparently va bad, except when they’d been burned half to a crisp It was an interesting thought to conte to spend several centuries with Danny
“No,” he said “I don’t I know she can fight like a tiger, and she’s more than a fair hand with a blade But I think Ruskin will cheat
And she doesn’t cheat” The irony of Lord Charles’s purported adherence to the code of the English gentleman, and Danny’s actual observance of it, was not lost on hiuess, from the spark in her eyes
“I’hting his own i vao over very well “I do understand that ht If she loses”—he sed—“then she loses But if she loses, you’ll ensure he o, knowing she’d be killed?”
“She’s no coward,” he asserted
“No, not in the least,” the vas to ensure that will not be the outcome if she loses
One, she is worth far more pleasure and satisfaction to Lord Charles alive, not dead If she makes this aborted attempt on his life and fails, he will force her to offer her blood and subrew hard, sea glass in truth “That’s not going to happen She’d let him take her head first”
“No, she won’t,” Lyssa responded “Reason two Danny would not have risked this if she thought it would truly end in her death
Because of you”
“Because of” He cut it short, reiven herself no out She’s either got to win or she beco as he wants to treat her that way”