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The colossalover her, as tall as MacRieve with bulkier h his eyebrow and down his face, ression But his expression was neutral

"Pretty big wall you've got here," she said

"Aye It surrounds hundreds of acres" With a polite nod, Madadh said, "I'll leave you to it, MacRieve"

Once he'd exited the rooot a better look at the feeds, and her jaw slackened Nightmare creatures tee in droves

All here for me?

Chapter Sixteen

Chloe hadn't taken her eyes off the screens; Will hadn't taken his eyes off her

Ach, she was a bonny thing Now that her hair was drying, it curled into fetching disarray, glossy little spikes fraleaence

Bonny and brave Though her heart beat with fear, you couldn't tell by her stoic demeanor

"This is what you saved me from?" she asked with hardly a trelad of the bag now Can those things breach the wall?"

"No' hold e're all a hair-trigger away fro We protect our own, lass Understand ets near you"

"You must have a secret way out"

Why was she so sodding eager to go? Feet near hi to him? "You canna leave Chloe, as I said, these creatures will no' kill you at first You would no' be so fortunate as that"

She bit her bottom lip "I can hide" She trailed off when he shook his head

"You lost a lot of blood at the crossroads last night They can use it to track you I vow to the Lore that they would find you within minutes, and that they would torture and abuse you" By the way she gazed at his eyes, he knew they'd flickered blue "I canna let you be hurt"

"How long will this siege last?"

"Likely until your father is found"

"Why can't they track him?"

"No blood And he's probably ca his location with mystical means anyway He uses aspects of the Lore when it suits him" For decades, Will's foric; the other prisons still were The Order's torques were mystically reinforced and eh Nix had clearly been furthering her own ends

"Maybe I can get some mystical means?"

"So desperate to leave?" His face tightened "You could purchase a concealment talisman from the witches for hundreds of thousands of dollars-oh, wait, they're the ones who kidnapped and sold you!"

Her lips thinned "If my dad showed up here, ould happen to him? MacRieve, I can't let him be hurt My moreat dad, kind and supportive My biggest complaint is that he always travels way too much"

"And guess what he's been doing on those trips," he said, hating the stricken look on her face, hating that he'd caused it

In a softer tone, she asked, "What did my father do to you?"

Will avoided her eyes "I canna speak of it No' yet"

He could tell she wanted to press, but to her credit, she didn't "You'll tell uess"

"In any case, you're safest here"

She started to pace "So here I'll be staying?"

"Could you sound more put out? It's no' so bad here I am no' so bad Why are you so averse to me? I know you're attracted toher lust against her Lykae were notoriously brutal warriors, but they could also be sly tricksters, able to coax and maneuver their prey as expertly as they could seize it

She straightened "You can't know that"

"I scented you in the shower last night And then there's the matter of your dreams Mayhap they included me?"

Her blush said bingo Satisfaction filled him

She pursed her lips "Attraction is involuntary But if I had control over it, I wouldn't be attracted to you"

"Why no'?" he asked, his one surly just like that

"I don't have tis unsaid between us Not to mention that you want to murder hi camp in Europe in less than teeks"

That soon? Still, he was deterure it out later For now, he needed some kind of bond with her to soothe this feral restlessness he felt While he'd been running headlong toward her, she'd been looking for the exit "I will no' speak of any of this today"

"Why?"

"Today is ive it to me" When he moved in even closer, she backed up until her arse met the desk

Before she could say a word, he'd lifted her on top of it, easing his hps between her knees He caught a peek down her blouse, was thrilled to spy the black bra he'd put in the wardrobe last night, the one he'd iined molded over her plump brsts

She , her body already tre with lust

The way to bind her to hih sex; sex was iht

But then, he didn't have to take theive Chloe ahis beast in check

Two probleht slip the leash And Will had never set out to pleasure a female

For all these centuries, his beast hadn't strayed froot a release, the nymph made her conquest, all ell Will hadn't heard any complaints Of course, he hadn't exactly stuck around afterward

Kissing, orl sx, foreplay, these things were foreign to him

I'll figure it the hell out

When he ihs, he shot hard as steel, and his beast stirred He gritted his teeth, struggling to keep it caged

Chloe tilted her head "And ould I give you this day?"

"We're going to er, you and I At the end of today, if you still want to leave et you a concealment talisman from the witches"

"Truly?"

"Aye" He was such a twatting liar But his ploy orking She'd begun to relax-because she thought she was heading out tomorrow on her doomed quest to find her father

At least she was loyal Along with touch, sex, and food, Lykae revered loyalty "If you givechance to win you over, and I fail, then I'll help you leave"

Her gaze was on his lips when she murmured, "What would one day hurt?" Then she blinked up at him as if her oords had shocked her

"Verra well" This close, he could see her long lashes were tipped with the tiniest fringe of blond "We start now"

"Do one of those vows to the Lore first"