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"Lowerput it in your ain Deny o" , "Never!"

As she rose up, releasing him, she snapped, "You can't win this-you only waste my time!"

His hands fisted above the manacles "Finish me!"

"Just a feords away!" She cast an illusion over her­self of the dress she'd worn earlier "Maybe next tiue, which she didn't have to understand to knoas cursing her vilely Nohis heels in the bed and thrusting that great shaft into the air

Outside, her ubiquitous assistant aiting, ready to take direction Sabine just called her "Inferi" She called all of the from her encoun­ter with her captive, she atteave out instructions

She ordered that he be sedated once more, then ht After that, he was to be secured to the bed with a collar at his neck, and then have his wrists bound behind his back-just in case he decided to release any steam

Sabine figured that if he got aroused enough, even a "little bitch" like her would begin to look like a

Pollyanna

Deep in thought, she left the dungeon, trudged to her tower, then began the six flights of stairs to her rooer-Oh-but she couldn't get her mind off Rydstrom's body

She'd never expected to be so affected by hiht to think of herself as better than de" as a mere play for power

But aside froood- and the fact that he was their blood enemy-Rydstrom called to her He was so different froued her

How had he gotten the scar on his face? And the ones along his shaft? Now that she'd seenthe vision of his chest and those long, brawny are sex

Sabine sighed Tonight, she was going to have to make a date with BOB-her battery-operated boy­friend

Once she crossed the threshold to her chainally and cast off the illusion of her dress She was tired, but then, she was getting hoildedto her

Plots and subplots Sabine was notorious for theht now

Omort, Sabine, and Lanthe alone knew the real truth behind Rydstrom's capture The demon's heir wasn't needed to quell rebellions but to unlock the mysterious Well of Souls in the center of Tornin's court Sabine didn't kno the prince would release the power of the well Only that he would

But what Omort didn't knoas that Sabine would see that her son unlocked it for her-alone She was going to usurp the power from the Pravus Frodo the demon, she'd finally seized the et him to bed her