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"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'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'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's seduced you to do what she wants A dangerous ploy, because he feared she could He was greedy for her, would give aldo Cadeon in line and trade the Vessel to claiainst Sabine

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

The visions she'd shown hiht had shocked him in more ways than one Until Rydstrom had seen them, plain and hare, he never would have ad that was truethat he had spent his entire existence since his thirteenth birthday,each woman he'd been with Every sexual encounter had been an investigation to find his mate-or rather, to rule out that the deain, he'd experienced hts, where he expected disappoint­lad to be done with it

With Sabine-he wanted to keep her beneath hiered 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'd ever experienced