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She'd been a virgin for Rydstrom After all these years, she'd reazed up at the ceiling of the cell he had gotten to know too well It was absolutely possible for her to have conceived

Conceivedit to be true-even as he knew the clock would begin tick-ing down on his life If she was pregnant, they would have no more use for him More than ever, he had to escape Take dom

Rydstrom needed the sorceress here He'd hurt her, and he wanted the chance to make it up to her But he was uneasy over h he'd taken Sabine, she wasn't his wife, and he hadn't completely claimed her as his mate

He needed to mark her to satisfy his demon instincts

Rydstro down the dungeon steps Shortly after, three large males entered the cell, all clearly Inferi slaves He recalled Sabine's fury-had she left orders for hi Rydstrom Which meant a chance to escape He stilled in readiness Three Inferi could never control a de his eyes Gods da

Only he couldn't move

There was soazed at his prone body Once Rydstronized it, his heart went cold

Lust

When they strung him up in the shower and stripped his pants froht them As they washed his deadened body, he was i hatred blazed inside hi how much he would despise it

Once he escaped, he'd huive her to thee erupted in hie, going awash in it, again vowing for the crudest revenge An exact reprisal tc her, for every wrong she'd dealt hiet a chance to call off the, uh, bathing?" Lanthe said telepathically, able to sip frooblet and com an outfit in front of her oversize ht with the demon "And it wentbadly"

"Tell me"

"The Inferi's poore off, and Rydstrom attacked with his poisonous horns"

The trio hadn't intended to dothem like a beast

"He temporarily paralyzed one of my poor Inferi before they contained hi another top froed for her "Itouched by three males-that's why I ordered it But to react like that? The thought of being bathed by strange wo to hihts later?"

"I don't have a choice" Unfortunately, she wasn't preg­nant The Hag could divine such things within days, so this , Sabine had descended into the bowels of the castle to consult the old crone Rumor had it that she'd once been a beautiful elven maiden who'd met with so's base with all the butchered aniet the odor of fried batwings off her body

The woman had taken her blood and told her the news-a blow to Sabine because she was nearing the end of her fertile cycle