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He startled when he actually looked at ainst ave it totheets erie"

For I indeed wore that pair of red, lacy underthings--beneath a own that was so scandalously sheer it showed thely rich"

"Just because I have money doesn’t mean I need to spend it"

He squeezed my knee "Good We need so out gold left and right thanks to our Court of Dreah ruainst his shoulder "Is Amren still your Second?"

"Our Second"

"Se h "If she wants it, it’s hers"

"Even if she doesn’t have her powers anyh Fae I’m sure she’ll discover soain, savoring the feel of his hand on my skin, the warmth of his body around one"

I began to tense at the lingering terror that had driven hts--the terror I doubted I’d soon recover fro strokes down ain"

"Now you kno I felt Under the Mountain"

I craned ain Not about that"

"But about other things?"

I pinched his arhed and batted away my hand "I couldn’t let all you ladies take the credit for saving us Solory so you don’t tra"

I punched his arm this time

But he wrapped his ar me in "I heard you, even in death It oing to that place I had once tried to describe to the Carver

"When it’s tiether"

"It’s a bargain," he said, and kissed ently

I murmured back onto his lips, "Yes, it is"

The skin on led A lick of warmth snaked down it

I looked down to find another tattoo there--the twin to the one that had once graced it, save for that black band of the bargain I’d made with Bryaxis He’d rated amid the whorls and swirls

"I missed the old one," he said innocently