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“Yes. You are my type.”

She looks gorgeous, her brown-and-gold hair forming a haloaround her head. Her blue eyes are wide and dominate her pretty face. She iseverything to me. How did that happened? She is the sun in my sky. I fought it,but now I can’t remember why.

I’m going to leave my home to save her.

“Dante, if you’ll join us.” Julian gestures toward hisoffice door.

I pull Kaja along.

Julian stares at me. “Your consort is welcome to have adrink at the bar.”

“Or she can come with me.” I don’t want her running aroundan infamous BDSM club alone.

Kaja pats my hand. “I would love a drink. Don’t worry. Iwon’t allow myself to be carried off. If anyone tries to harm me, I will showthem my beast.”

My beast. I love the beast inside Kaja. And she isthe reason I will leave my home. Kaja needs something she can’t get on thisplane. And she also needs trust.

I lean over and brush my lips to her forehead. Sheunderstands. I feel her love. She loves me. I am her world as she is mine. Evenwhen she shields, she can’t hide that fact from me. It makes me feel tenfucking feet tall. “Go on, love. Have a nice drink and meet the other subs. Iwon’t be long.”

She goes up on her tiptoes and plants the sweetest kiss onmy lips. “I will wait for you, my love.”

The endearment goes straight to my cock. She only evercalled me First or Dante before. My love is new. “I love you, Kaj.”

That’s new, too. I won’t stop. I love her. I’m better forloving her. My heart is different—fuller. Everything is different. I went intothis relationship with bad intentions, and now I can’t imagine my life withouther. How quickly that changed.

She smiles as though she knows. I don’t have to tell her. Imerely have to open myself and she can feel how much a part of me she is.

“I love you, too. I will not stare at strange vampires. Iwill tell everyone that I am taken and require nothing more than my husband.”She wraps her arms around me, squeezes, and walks away. Her glorious ass swaysas she walks. “I still feel your hand and your cock there, love.”

Oh, she is my fucking mate.

“You seem to have chosen well,” Julian says with aself-assured smile.

“I was infinitely lucky.” I watch her until the moment thedoor closes and she is no longer visible.

“If you need someone to deal with the press, I’ll do it forfree,” Taggart says, a fierce frown on his face. “I might even pay you.”

Letting Taggart murder a couple dozen members of the pressmight make me feel better, but it won’t help Kaja. They’ll always look down onher. “I appreciate the offer. I think my wife would have a problem with it.”

Taggart shrugs. “Wasn’t planning on telling her.”

“You’ve obviously never been married. They always find out.”I turn back to Julian. “Now, tell me why you pulled me from my bonding time.”

A shadow moves from the corner. A familiar British voicespeaks up. “I’m afraid that’s my doing, Mr. Dellacourt.”

And just like that my mood goes from sunny to kill.

Without a thought, I move, my legs crossing the distancebetween us. Instinct leads me. I get my claws around Roan’s throat before thefucker can think to move. I slam Roan against the wall and smell the otherman’s fear.

“Now, see, this is why I’m here,” Taggart drawls. “I wantedto see if you could kill Roan. Hey, my offer is rescinded if he kills you.”

“You’re faster than I suspected,” Julian Lodge says. If he’sangry about the violence in his establishment, it doesn’t show.

Roan holds himself perfectly still. “He’s much faster thanthe last time we tussled.”

Anger pulses through me. “Tussled? Is that what you callnearly getting my consort killed?”

Roan’s eyes hold mine. “It wasn’t your consort who nearlydied. It was you. She was the one who brought you back. And I was the one whotold you how. Now you can take off my head because I can’t seem to stop you oryou can listen to me.”