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Davian wanted to shake her The desire was unrelenting, but he resisted the overwhel he’d hurt her because he was so fired up Letting go of her, he stalked away Only to pull up short and then spin back around

“This is a joke, right? You’re teasing me, the way you sometimes do”

She squared her shoulders “Does it look as though I’?”

The anger seized hiain He whirled oncevery much to tear it from the stone fireplace

“Please don’t break my house,” she pleaded “I understand you’re mad, but—”

“I am not mad,” he said between clenched teeth “I ale you, Jade Toran too, for swearing you in”

“It was my choice Leave him out of this I had to convince him to do it, Davian”

“Why would you even want this?” he demanded “After the wraith attacks? Goddamn it You kno susceptible you are to pain, and yet you’ve gone and put yourself in the inable! Why?”

He couldn’t bring hih not to try to placate hiesture In fact, she knew to keep her distance while his anger boiled in his veins

“Slayers are born, not just cultivated,” she said “I’ve always known I had the capability to fight—I was a natural from the first ti, so I started working with Toran o, after the fire wraith brokeso helpless, so I asked Toran to instruct ot mauled and—”

She faltered Had to take a breath before plunging ahead Eed her voice as she asserted, “I knew I had to do so, Davian The only expertise I didn’t possess that’s required by a slayer is the knowledge of how to kill a demon…and the ability to do it”

Finally, he jerked around and glared at her “The chicken?”

“I ripped its throat out with my bare hand First try”

The fury within hi you is to teach you how to take on a shifter? A deadly shifter”

“It’s so I need to learn, Davian I am a slayer now”