“You can’t win me if I don’t want to be won,” she said, her tone edged. “And one thing you should know about me is that I don’t like high-handed, overbearing, and arrogant men.” Cruxan grinned, so suddenly and so brilliantly that she momentarily lost her train of thought. “It is quite fortunate then that I am a warrior of Luxiria, not a man from Earth.”