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Pierette gavebrown eyes and said, “I have come to be whatever you need, myAnita Whether by sword or flesh, I am yours”

She’d almost used the title, s and queens than presidents, but I really hoped she didn’t forget and call me queen in front of Leduc or even Newman Oh, hell, anyone but the people who came with her on the plane

“What does she mean by that?” Olaf asked

“Oh, let el said, and the mischievous smile that ith the words blossomed until it was mostly just evil It was the smile that Mephistopheles, our Devil, Dev for short, hen he was about to do so unfortunate

I shook , just no”

“Well, you are the boss of ly that she was hu me

“You are not the boss oflow

I looked up at him, and for a second, he let me see all that creepy-as-fuckhadn’t been enough to da his civilizedTed so much of the time

“No, I’m not, but you heard what I told Duke about the SEALs”

“I did”

“That applies to Angel and Petra, too”

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sp; “I don’t knohat you mean,” he said

“The hell you don’t,” I said

Olaf smiled at me, and he put all that happy creepiness into it that usually spooked me, but in that ain, but not now For noas done with this shit My lioness raised golden eyes and stared up through me