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“Only a fool chooses to live in ignorance when knowledge is so easily obtained.”
“You know family.” My tone was clipped. “Always a pain in the ass.”
I only hoped Ian didn’t blow our cover after his bare-chested sashaying failed to sweep her off her feet.
Ian responded by flashing them a dazzling smile, making him appear almost angelic to anyone who didn’t know that he was a conscienceless slut.
“Why do you bother, Crispin? You married a fighter, so stop trying to convince her that the sidelines suit her better.”
“Then today is that day,” Ian replied sharply, “for I love you, you wretched, pig-headed guttersnipe. I also love that arrogant, overprivileged dandy smirking at us”—a wave indicted Spade, whose aforementioned smirk vanished—“as well as the emotionally fractured, malfunctioning psychic who sired me. And you, Crispin, love a bloodthirsty hellion who’s probably killed more people in her thirty years than I have in over two centuries of living, so again I say, don’t bother trying to convince her that she isn’t who she is.”
Some people were born to be mothers, fathers, inventors, artists, speakers, preachers . . . and then there was me.
but marriage is a marathon. Not a sprint.”
“We were never properly introduced,” I said in a vicious purr. “I’m the Red Reaper, and you’re dead.”
“You were planning to restrain me with them?” I couldn’t contain my angry snort. “What was your plan for when you let me go? Run like hell?”
“I would never hurt you that way save for one reason: to keep you safe. I can live with your anger, your retribution—bloody hell,
despise me if you must, but don’t expect me to behave as though you aren’t the most important thing in my life. You are, and I will let no one, yourself included, bring you to harm.”
Some days, it didn’t pay to get out of bed.
No one better say anything bad about Ian around me after today. I officially loved that son of a bitch.
“Get off, luv, I’m high as a bloody kite. No telling what I’ll do.”
I couldn’t be prouder if she’d composed a sonnet and pinned it to a bull’s-eye by throwing a knife from fifty paces.
