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The beach houseunder Sahts from the hotels and clubs on the beach receded to the east, while the wooden deck built atop itself an empty cabin with blacked-out s

Saes around her anyed at Werren A thin cable wrapped around her neck and burned into her flesh with the hot-acid bite of copper It shocked her so h voice ordered beside her ear

Werren approached, darting back as Sam lashed out with a vicious kick "Please They will hurt you if you resist"

Saht her boot down as hard as she could on the ed the copper garrote from around her neck as she reached for her pistol with her other hand, only to find herself shoved back into the confines of a body-size cage, the door to which was slammed in her face

"Another illusion? This time I know it’s not real" She tried to wrench the bars apart "Goddae, and reached in to take her weapon When Saeis real, my lady" She sounded sad as her hair snarled into wads of dirty knots and her pretty outfit sagged into a rotting potato sack "I am the only illusion"

So now he knows

Chris wouldn’t let herself look at anything but the scenery as Jamys drove they, he’d been very quiet, and all she could think of to say were a bunch of pathetic excuses and inadequate apologies She’d just shown him what Stryker had made of her, and forced him to have sex in front of a houseful of perverts; even the most sincere "I’m sorry" wouldn’t redeem her behavior

It’s better that he knows At least she wouldn’t have to pretend anymore that the years between her mother’s suicide and the day she o on as if nothing had happened, soive her hands soers into knots, Chris took out herto try to call Sahold, then we can keep Lucan froo home"

"I have no hohold, and even if he would perave her a sideways glance "Once the high lord learns of ue"

Chris knew a little about rogues, the loner i the Kyn If they did anything to hurt humans or piss off Tremayne, he had theue Sam had told her how often Lucan had been sent to execute theo back to North Carolina," she told him "You make up with your dad and take an oath to hiue You don’t ever go rogue"

"By leavingLucan’s orders by re in his territory, I have already" He parked the car in thethe emeralds is ive theh she understood his motives, her heart sank a little "Okay Maybe he won’t use them to decimate the mortal world"

"He would not use theot out of the car and came around to open her door "But I believe he cannot be trusted with theive theht tempt someone on the council to act like an idiot, too" She cliive the for these rocks?"

"In the suuardian of the emeralds is dead" He stopped and looked down at her "I think you and I were fated to becouardians"

"Us?" She frowned "I could see you doing that, but I’ to be around for maybe another fifty, sixty years, and that’s not" She realized what he meant "No, Jamys"

"Think about it" He cradled her face between his hands "If you were ether forever I could take you as ain"

"You’d make me your life companion" She tried to wrap her head around that "What are you talking about?"

"I a the side of her cheek "I have been these three years"

She walked away from him and went to the boat, where she turned on the navcom and pulled up the course that would take them back to Fort Lauderdale She felt him the moment he stepped onto the boat, but kept her back to hiry with me?"

"Three years" She hammered the coordinates into the keypad "The last three years, do you kno I spent the"

"I know--"