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Callan and Merinus stood at the only entrance into the ballroom, cal within Sanctuary But they knew, and Callan had already passed sentence once the Breeds were caught They would die No exceptions, even for the woman

Merinus Lyons was as graceful and gracious as always, her brown hair upswept, displaying her slender neck and the pearls that circled it She wore a ball gown that ant, the sweep of bronzearound her

Roni Andreith her mate and husband, Taber Taber was dressed in a black tux, but Ria knew the weapons concealed beneath it

The entire ruling fa Dawn Daniels and her fiancé Seth Lawrence They , but the tension was there The scent of it would have been detectable if it weren’t forthe Breed ruling family for the first time

Ria curled her hand on Mercury’s broad forear the periown, her gaze spreading out over the rooht with him as well

“You look too hot,” Mercury colinted with interest and then flickered in fear when her Breed rowled at them

But she heard the pride in his voice For soenetics she had tried so long to fight were impossible to suppress since he had mated her

“It’s your fault,” she rehed at the tiny, warning pat just above her rear

“Don’t remind me I’m ready to explode the way it is”

And he was He was hard beneath his new dress uniform, and ready for her He was always ready for her, just as she was for him

She sht of that, warmed to it as she tried to concentrate on the security placed around the room

There were Breed Enforcers in the expected places for such events, but she knew there were even

Horace Engalls was there with his wife, on the dance floor sweeping through the crowd, his expression s with none other than Alaiya, the Breed determined to take what Ria had decided there wasn’t a chance in hell she was taking

Exactly when she hadto walk away once, to let Mercury have the mate that had first been intended for him