He covered her mouth before she could answer him. “Would I ever let you?” She bit his hand. Robert pulled his hand away and gaped at her, then at the blood. She had bitten him far harder than Adelise ever had, or even the new ice-white one, Marie-Galante. But her eyes were remarkably tranquil, as a dragon’s eyes could never have been. Her voice was a voice he had never heard before, as she said, “Robert, my one companion, love of my life forever, ‘let’ is not a word you will use to me again.”
