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fur blanket. My body ached as if it had been trampled, every
b, my inner thighs and shoulders were marked with the d
was his name. He had fulfilled his side of the bargain
ving his silhouette, as still and imposing as a mountain.
ement. This time, in the clear m
d features like a god's statue. Nothing like the "old monster" I had ima
ossed the room to the bedside, a roll of ban
ist, his touch rough, and began
y precise. He examined my wrist the way one might inspect a newly acquired weapon.
ouldn't he
ill a cold monotone. "I don't l
ation, but beneath them, a strange sense o
ard my neck. I touched it instinctively;
anded, his voice l
xposing my throat to him. He leaned in, and his cold fingers applie
ed up, putting distance between us again, as if the op
on," he declared, his tone
n't let this go,
he scoffed. "They
ure cloaked entirely in black stood outsid
ssued an order to the guard. "From now on, she is your seco
one knee in an ancient salu
me. The "Ancient One," Gabriel Kane, hidden away in the Serrano castle's forbidd
had planned to seek an alliance with, once I had
mething that might have been a smile touched his
ck into the shadows, as i
my "master." "Rest. Heal your wounds. I need you in perfe
hiver down my spine. He wasn't going to keep me a
For the first time in this castle of betrayal
powerful beast in the ki
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