Ah, damn it, lass,'he called after her. 'I've busted my stitches wide open.'' What?'she cried, hurrying back to him. 'Let me see!'' Ah-ha!' He snared her around the waist, dragging her down with him to his lap.' You still care for me!

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Aidan from the past: He took her hands in his bloodied, callused ones. “Accept me?” His eyes glowed, his lashes spiked from rain. Declan in the present: He gripped her nape. “I fucking love you, Region!” Rain spiked his lashes as he gazed down at her, commanding her, “Love me back!

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A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls--when no one is around to be crushed! [Bothered, Enemy of Old]

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And if you don’t think I can hold my own against all those eighteenth-century mortals you were out tagging, then you’re a fool, Casanova.” ... “Oh, yes, I know all about you.” He went still. “What are you talking about?”“I was alive back then. And all the Lore heard about the ruthless warlord brothers from Estonia. The general, the scholar, the enigma, and. . . The man whore.

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Apparently unaffected, she rose. "Yeah, you're probably right. I should be going." She feigned a yawn. "You've got to head back to work, and I got a head to jail. Big night for me. I'm planning to shiv someone for a bar of soap. --

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Aww, did we masturbate through the tears last night?

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Bothered briefly gazed heavenward. "Chase is clearly a reluctant sharer. Which should incite her curiosity about what's going on in his head. She's a disgustingly self-righteous Valkyrie, filled with the need to fix things, to right wrongs. If anything needed fixing ..." He waved a hand to indicate Declan from head to toe. "As wrong as he can be.

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Bothered is very much alive.”“You swear?”“Often. Though not as much as foul-mouthed Region. I try not to in front of Bertie.” She petted the bat.“I meant—will Bothered live?”“He will.

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Darwin says people like you need to die.” (Narrow)

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Declan and

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