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“What are you looking at?” Shira asked, her dark eyes reflecting the pleasure of their love as well as amusement
His thoughts had drifted beyond her bedroom, but his eyes had been focused on her brsts
He lowered his head and placed one war, “A Shalador beauty”
Her response was a little snort “I knohat I look like”
“But you don’t see what I see,” Ranon said He was considered a handsoave his face a rugged handsomeness that ith a warrior’s lean body, and he had the dark eyes, dark hair, and golden skin that -lived races or the fair-skinned races like the people of Dena Nehele
She had the look of their people, too, and ht the sharp bones of her face and the curves that lacked abundance ue and te close to her But it was exactly those things about her that excited him in ways no other woman had, and he understood why Gray could look at Cassidy—whoenerous supporter could not call pretty—and see a beautiful woman
Shira turned her head away from him, an evasive movement that wasn’t typical of her
He considered his wordsYou don’t see what I see Then he considered the nature of a Black Widow’s Craft and felt a chill settle in his belly
“Shira? Have you seen soled web?”
“I can’t talk about it”
“Can’t or won’t?”
“Can’t, won’t The words make no difference”
They made a difference to hi in a web of dreams and visions Didn’t you?”
“I can’t speak of it, Ranon None of us will speak of it”
The chill in his belly turned to jagged ice “How many Black Widows have seen this?”
She sighed, a sound full of exasperation and a hint of anger
He shifted away from her, sat up, and wrapped his arht to push If she felt he needed to know, she would have told him Hell’s fire! She was the one who had pushed him to come to Grayhaven when Theran had first su a Queen fro then, either She’d just said he had to go
The Hourglass didn’t divulge what they saw in their tangled webs Not very often, anyway And not directly But a Black Widow never estion about an action to take without a reason
“Is it so to do with Cassidy?” he asked
She didn’t answer
“Shira” He didn’t knohat to ask
Finally Shira asked quietly, “Who has your loyalty, Prince Ranon? Tell me the list in order”
His heart ached, but she had asked Because he would give her nothing less than honesty, the words had to be said “I love you with everything I am, but my first loyalty is to my Queen Then you, then our people, then Dena Nehele”
She sat up and pressed a hand against his face When he looked at her, she said fiercely, “Re you are”
Was she warning hiht happen to Cassie when they went to the Shalador reserves?
“Hold on to it the same way you’ve held on to your honor,” Shira said