“If you are lying to me. . .” I smiled. His breath hitched against the feel of my own brushing against him. “I will make you wish you had left me for dead. Just like he did.” There was no crystal shoved in my neck now to prevent me from killing him otherwise. I vowed to remind him as often as I vowed to remind myself from this day forward. My brow arched. “What are you waiting for?” Our gazes collided as I pointed a single finger to the ground. He parted his mouth slightly, his face puzzled. I knew the second he understood what I wanted from him. Any man who wanted power from me would have to
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