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"You’re a Pythia"

I stared at hi to be one!"

"Oh, for--Myra’s dead," I reminded him My rival for the Pythian power had tried to kill me, but had ended up shredded in my place I hadn’t done it, but I hadn’t wasted a lot of tears over her memory, either

"There are other initiates," Pritkin reminded me as he pressed closer, his eyes narrowed on my face

I shivered But not because of the words But because ainst the air-conditionedhad just caused oose bumps

At least that’s what I told o I was already flat against the damnedAnd the sensation of slick cold on one side and hard heat on the other wasdistracting

Like those eyes onthrough the wet towel, or the strong fingers digging into my skin, or the hot breath onhad sped up and rateful that my hands were trapped beside my head

Because they really wanted to run the, so attention to since he was looking a littlestressed I suppose it was due to suspicion or anger or the kind of frustrated rage I seemed to call up in him sometimes But it didn’t look that way Or, rather, it did to my brain, which was noide awake But to my body

My body cheerfully inforainst me like that, all hard es My body liked the air of barely leashed strength and caged ood, like heat and coffee and electricity

My body was going to get me killed

And okay, this was an unexpected coh But it wasn’t exactly surprising

Pritkin and I had been together a lot lately and he was half incubus Hell, he was the son of their king, or whatever the creature’s title was It would have been odd if I didn’t feel so occasionally And that ithout the y the only way an incubus could

I closedout distractions and allowing et The familiar voice a sibilant whisper in ly soft hair brushing my body when he took control And rated, his voice soo I suppose he was afraid to, because a Pythia or one of her senior initiates could shift without hiether, and that was beco really, really--

Awesome, my body piped up enthusiastically

"I told you, cut it out!" Pritkin said, sounding pissed

"You first," I snarled, snapping lare at hi

Of course, neither did that

Heten- to torture me At least, I assumed that hy the rock-hard abs were outlined by a da in all the right places, and the sleeves of the hoodie had been pushed to his elbows, showing the flexing muscles in his forearms And then there were those hands and those eyes and that ain, a full-on shudder this time, and he cursed But that didn’t seerowl, and my body liked that, too My hips shifted autoasp because it felt so good

And then gasped again when I was abruptly released

It was fast enough that I alrab it in a hurry and then I just stayed there, breathing harder than technically necessary and still flat against the infernalBecause he was too close to go anywhere without buain

And I didn’t think that would be a great idea

Pritkin had moved off a few paces, but he hadn’t turned his back on the dangerous creature that had invaded his room and his life So I was able to see the flush on his skin and the anger on his face Anger that, for once, I completely didn’t deserve

"What the hell was that?" I de emotion," he said stiffly "Whether mine or another’s"

Incubus powers No wonder I feltlike I felt "No! Icovered what little dignity I had left "All the sla with you?"

"Nothing" Accusatory green eyes met mine "Other than the fact that the trace charm I have on you pinpoints your current location--five stories above our heads"

Daht of that The va spell on encies But like all spells, it had to be renewed And he hadn’t been around to do that lately

Meaning that the only spell in this time frame was on the other rabbed him with my free hand "Did you talk to her?"

"About you? No I merely called--"