I stepped toward Barrons. His dark gaze glittered with triumph. I could feel the smugness rolling off him, nearly as strong as the sexual charge he was throwing my way. “Think hard and fast,” V’lane hissed. “It would be unwise to alienate me, MacKayla.” I was thinking hard and fast. I closed my hand around Barrons’ forearm. He could not have looked more pleased if I’d just gazed up at him with doe eyes and told him he was my world. I locked my hand down, dug my nails into his flesh, and held on. His eyes narrowed, then flared, and then I was no longer seeing him at all, because I’d pushed,
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