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She murmured, "So this is what my demon likes" Sabine found herself secretly flattered by this Of all the fantasies a male could have-multiple women and men, fetishes, or even deviancies-his dreams were centered only on her Only her

She was also surprised by how erotic she found these scenes The idea of being tied up by an enemy should infuriate her-not arouse her In her past liaisons, the males had always been Sorceri, which meant they&039;d been potential ene weakness with theo was out of the question If they&039;d feared her-andto dissuade them

In Rydstrom&039;s fantasies, he didn&039;t fear her He acted as if he owned her, which was strangely exciting to her With him like this, there sio or not He&039;d deer with one hand, with his other he pressed her head down, gathering her hair forward off her nape so he could brush his lips there He ainst her as he rasped how beautiful she was

Her breath hitched "Have you ever tied a woman up?" When he didn&039;t answer, she let the illusion waver, threatening to take it away

He grated, "I haven&039;t"

"But you want to tie one up, you need to"

He stretched against hisher arm As if he couldn&039;t stop himself, he bit out, "You, tassia"

The lust in his voiceShe sed, easing down to lie beside him

In his vision, he turned her so she faced hi away her panties, he pull her leg over his shoulder to spread her to his o down on me?"

He turned to ruhs quiver, and you drench asp as the scene changed once s When he drew back to blow on her, she cried out and shamelessly undulated her hips

But in the fantasy, he still wouldn&039;t let her coer, Sabine took control of the scene and changed it In her vision, she&039;d rab his horns She used theue until she could climax with a screa hard into her fist, thrusting for relief Whatever she&039;d just done had hit the bull&039;s-eye with this male&039;s desires

"Make me come, tassia!"

"Makeyou wantyou need to be pleasured beyond your wildest is"

When the sorceress dipped her other hand to cup hiony

A kingdoled to remem­ber exactly why he couldn&039;t have this creature Mine Just a taste of her "If you can er to coiven me some potion toyou&039;reup on her knees, then leaned forward until their faces were inches apart "Look into my eyes, Rydstrom See me clearly You know it&039;s , her red

"Do you still deny I&039;m yours?"

"I can&039;t knownot without atte you"

"That ansas a perfect way for you to get out of saying that you don&039;t deny it" As her gaze focused on his lips, she licked her own "I&039; to kiss you now And if you bite me, demon, I&039;ll cut off your cock and feed it to the ravens"

No si female here She&039;d never say, "&039;Tis fine for you to do so, e" Never

But then, just to throw hi until his head swaods,ht loud and clear You know it&039;s me You&039;ve accepted that I&039; for"

She&039;d read his ain "And you?" he snapped "Have you &039;waited&039; for rew cold "Do you expectevery skirt in your kingdom?"

"How many males have come before me?"

"I&039;ination Does it bother you? The idea of otherit?" He felt a muscle tic in his scarred cheek, and she saw it "Oh, it does!"

"Just finishhi you want me to How ht of our e? Ten tiritted his teeth to stifle the voas te his resistance were nearly overwhelht of his fantasies? When unsatisfied need had built for weeks even before he&039;d met her? The air seethed with tension

"And then there&039;s your bondage fetish to explore-"

"I don&039;t have a fetish!"

"Why do you deny it-or me? What male could be expected to resist this?"

Chin raised, he bit out, "J would be Others would count on ood"

"To what end? How does denying yourself help any­one else?"

"The sooner I do this, the sooner I die"

"What if I told you I wouldn&039;t kill you-I&039;d keep you as my pet?"

"I&039;d opt for death"

"Then I need to make it so that you want me so ood, Sabine," he rasped, trying to catch his breath as she expertly stroked hiood"

Her eyes narrowed The chamber seemed to rock once more, and wind from nowhere blew her hair "Then you won&039;t oes away"

She re this every night I&039;ll do it until you lose your ht have an indoed in fire! You&039;ll find it&039;s h to break yours"

"You&039;re not going to leave me like this!" He swore once e on her Each second that passed, he hated herin pain, his shaft thick with se into his palms "Coames over and over, demon As a matter of fact, I think I enjoy theht, too

Once I turn the tables

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" You still look unsullied," Lanthe said when she and Sabine met upstairs, Sabine hated that word She hated that it was never used to describe et herself sullied quickly enough "Yes, Lanthe, I&039;m still pure"

"Round tent that well?"

For the first ti woman, Sabine experienced total bewilderain power, , aspiring to nothing I care about nothing very muchNoas the tiht he would resist reen eyes flick­ered black when he&039;d looked at her with utter lust And still he&039;d denied her He&039;d resisted not only the call of a female to a male but the call of his mate

"What if I&039;?" Oracles didn&039;t usuallytheir words did "I don&039;t get it I&039;ree-"

"And hu if it&039;s true And I&039;h most of his kind searched their entire lives for their other half, Rydstrom hadn&039;t Once he&039;d lost Tornin, he&039;d been obsessed in his quest to reclaim his crown

Now that the worst of her pique had passed, she reflected on all she&039;d learned To please him as he truly needed, she would have to surrender the reins-or appear to

Sabine was so strong on the outside, always having to be on her ga any vulnerability There&039;d been times that she&039;d actually wondered what it would be like to lie back and just surrender to a man

If she trusted him I/he orthy The demon would never seek to steal my powers

"I kneas coree "The levelheaded, upstanding king has a wicked side" And one he&039;d obviously long denied

Lanthe&039;s eyes ide "Do tell!"

"He craves total control, but he doesn&039;t want ive it to him He wants to win it"

"That sounds kind of exciting"

It was Gods, that demon&039;s masculine heat was addic­tive

"When you ith him, did you feel more drawn to him? " When Sabine frowned, Lanthe said, "Just tell me-if this was another place and tis, would you see hiain?"

He wants to kiss my neck and tell me that I&039;m beauti­ful"Our kind considers demons hardly better than animals"

"That&039;s not what I asked"

"I htened "Oh, Sabine! This is won­derful You could fall in love-"

"Alith your talk of love! Do you knohat I love? Life And ro alive more difficult Besides, we&039;re not in another tilanced over her shoulder toward the dungeon and felt a tinge of so

When she turned back, she found Lanthe preoccu­pied, gazing up at the sky

"A karat for your thoughts," she said "It&039;s Thronos, isn&039;t it?"

"What?" Lanthe cried

"You&039;re worried he will find a way to this plane But, Lanthe, he can&039;t And even if he could, we&039;re not the sa him by his own entrails"

"Yes, by his entrails," Lanthe repeated in a weird tone

"How about we go watch some of your DVDs?"

Lanthe had quite the collection of films Every month, she opened a portal from her room directly to a Best Buy, and then they ordered their Inferi to make like an ant line to the movie section "We&039;ll watch a horror movie and drink wine every tiood," she said without enthusiaset merry and raise hell"

Suddenly Sabine felt the tiny hairs on her nape rise Great, Lanthe had gotten her spooked She glanced up, but found no Vrekener

Instead, she spied Lothaire atop the ra in the sea breeze, his thick white-blond hair stirring The general of the Fallen Va them

Lothaire was one of the most complicated males Sabine had ever encountered His eyes were pink-not clear of blood, but not red with it either He was consid­ered fallen, and yet he prevented hi those last few kills that would send him over the brink

Whenever Sabine made herself invisible andon others, an analytical, cunning look on his face

His interest in her and Lanthe boded ill

Without breaking his watchful gaze, Lothaire disap-peared

Thoughts growing darker

Rydstroainst the heavy metal collar around his neck Darker with each hour

At the end of this night, he&039;d still resisted the sorcer­ess, even with his fantasies projected in a vision But the pain was beco tooso much that Rydstrom was unable to reason Unable to just think clearly

He had to escape Play along Let her think she&039;s seduced you to do what she wants A dangerous ploy, because he feared she could He was greedy for her, would give alive up his kingdoet free so that he could bring Cadeon in line and trade the Vessel to claiainst Sabine

He iined all the ways he&039;dfor hihs He&039;d make her plead as she writhed in the chains he bound her with

The visions she&039;d shown hiht had shocked him in more ways than one Until Rydstrom had seen them, plain and hare, he never would have admitted that was exactly what he would like sexually

Knowing that was truethat he had spent his entire existence since his thirteenth birthday,each woman he&039;d been with Every sexual encounter had been an investigation to find his mate-or rather, to rule out that the deain and again, he&039;d experienced hts, where he expected disappoint­lad to be done with it

With Sabine-he wanted to keep her beneath him for days

Deny it all I want He&039;d never hungered for another feh these encounters with her ran contrary to his desires-she

should be chained in his bed-they were still hotter than any reality he&039;d ever experienced

And soon she would be in his power She&039;d given her vow that he was to be left free the next time she came to him Now that he was more familiar with her ability, he could predict it, could withstand it, and capture her

Once free of the castle, he could take Sabine into the forests surrounding Tornin and reet back to his brother, Rydstrom would have to escape this plane

The fact that Omort monitored all teleportation off Rothkalina ell known Yet so long as beings didn&039;t enter the plane, O

Rydstro portals in Grave Realdom If they reached a portal, they could escape completely Omort was rumored to be weak away froive chase him­self Rydstrom could easily handle anyone else he sent after theht of his escape would unfold, he feared his oill, was disturbed by his fantasies Because he didn&039;t see hi