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never get my vow from me"

"Then, Rydstro beca hihthile between them, the cohts he usually buried at once Secrets long kept- and forever denied "Then all you're doing is wasting hened

"What makes you so confident that I can'tto be inside me?"

Because so much is at stake Never had Rydstroet to his brother before he did so monumentally selfish Cadeon was a cut­throat mercenary who had just come into possession of what he'd yearned for most in the world "You couldn't tempt me from my duty before-and I didn't even knoho you were then" Bravado, Woede

She stood, her shoulders back "You haven't seen everything I have to te a ribbon at her bodice The gown slid over her pert

nipples down her narroaist and shapely legs to pool at her feet

All that remained on her exquisite body was a sheer scrap of white silk covering her brsts and the tiniest panties he had ever seen

His lips parted, and his ck felt like it could rip through his pants With her eyes flashing, she raised her chin, well aware of her effect on him and prideful of it

If this felorious

In that instant, he decided, I'll claim her as et free

L anthe shuffled to court, listening to her iPod, deep in thought

A fewin an electronics store watching coveted cable She'd caught a show about dolphins in captivity

When the aniic and bored, their trainers would put fish into a container so that the crea-tures would have to work to get the Sabine to one of those burned-out dolphins who couldn't swim freely or hunt for their meals

Sabine had been made a killer but had no one to destroy, a survivor with no calamity to endure Which made her a burned-out sorceress She had been for centuries

Yet tonight when Sabine had locked her gaze on the deiven a deet froeon to court, Lanthe had to walk outside, and the night sky above see old fears-

What the hell was that? She'd thought she'd heard so, she snatched her ear buds free, then froze for several heartbeats Only silence Losing it