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“Why risk it?” I say after a e

“You know the answer,” Andrei says “It’s all for her It’s always been for her

I look at Dakota as my blood turns cold

Chapter Twenty-Two

Dakota

“Damian? What is it?”

He stands with the phone in his hand, co like sorips it tightly

He growls and squeezes the phone like he wants to crush it in his paw

The beast is out, oh, God, but not for that this time

The monster inside of him flares in his eyes and for a second I see the same man who killed Dobry, the cold killer, the primal hitman

“D-Damian,” I whisper

“They’re here,” he snarls, snapping into quick moveet out of here No arguments now, Popstar Just do what I say when I say it Understood?”

Here he is, clothed in seht and his entire being made taut with the need to protect me, protect our unborn child and Sparky and our future

He’s not the murderer from my dreams

He’ll kill, fine

But to protect our fae he is

Suddenly this plush hotel suite – the scent of our love the air – has become a cave, and out there in the cave ers lurk All I can do is cling to h

“Dakota?” he snaps “Come on Stay with me Just calm down”

“In the hotel,” I say, hardly recognizing the voice “Jesus, Daht you said they’d never do this”

“They never have,” he murmurs “But they said, he said—”

“What, Damian? Tell me I deserve to know”

My heart is thu so hard it hurts His eyes see at me

“He said all of this is for you,” Damian says “Whatever the fuck that’s supposed to mean”

“For me?”

Da, but deeper in the hotel suite Sparky lets out a high-pitched terrible yapping noise, and so wooden breaks loudly