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“Not just magic; she’s a trueborn witch with an added benefit of legacy power. That’s as rare a combination for witches as Cain’s legacy is for vampires.”
“I don’t,” Ian agreed with a laugh. “But I’ve been wrong before. Think it was on a Tuesday.”
“Can’t shag your sister, can’t shag your friend, can’t shag you, can’t shag Vlad. If I wanted to be this sexless and miserable, I’d get married.”
“Mine is the mark of Menkaure, my birth name,” Mencheres told her darkly. “And yours is the mark of Imhotep . . . necromancer.”
“That’s love for you,” I heard Ian say. “Glad I’m too corrupt to fall victim to that form of intelligence lobotomy.”
“I hope you fall head over heels for someone who insists on monogamy!”
over my body. “Come on, Leila, you need to heal. Heal, my darling, heal, please!” an anguished voice bellowed.
“You said please,” I whispered, smiling when his relief flooded my emotions with the force of
a thousand dams breaking. “I’m never going to let you live that down.”
‘though she be but little, she is fierce,’” I quoted with an answering, if much wearier, smile.
“I don’t need to feel you to know it, Leila,” he murmured, leaning
forward until his forehead touched mine. “Every day, I see the truth of it in your eyes.”
“There’s more to all of us. Yet most times, we still only see what we expect to see.”
Ian snorted again. “Among too many other things to list, I managed to avoid one of the underworld’s most powerful demons for over five decades. Think a normal vampire can do that? No, luv. You of all people should know that sometimes, what looks like an ordinary Chihuahua is really a werewolf in disguise.”
can’t have only loved you for less than a year. Every day, I am more and more convinced that you have always been a part of my soul.”
