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The corners of his lips turned up. “In case you tried to hurt him.”
I scoffed, my head shaking.
“Did he say anything of interest?”
My arms crossed over my ribcage. “Just that he is worried about your sanity.”
“Leo is worried about a lot of things. It is his nature.”
My look narrowed at him. “Are you? Sane?”
A caustic smile lifted the left side of his face. “Does it matter?”
I exhaled a sigh, looking down and kicking at the snow with the tip of my boot. “What exactly are you expecting out of me, Damen?”
He stepped closer, leaning in toward my ear. “I told you long ago, once this starts, it doesn’t end.”
My look jerked up to him. Hell, he was close. Too damn close. His warm breath invading the air around my face. The scent of him, evergreen and smoke and pheromones that should be bottled and sold, so familiar and reminding me of things I had wanted to forget. “I didn’t think you actually meant that…literally.”
“I did. This. Us. It doesn’t end, Ada.”
I knew how this one went. “Not until you say so.”
His look cut into me. “Ever. It doesn’t end, ever. No matter where you are. What you are doing. It doesn’t end.”
Fuck me.
The blood in my veins drained down, pooling in my legs and turning them into lead logs when I should be running away from this man at every opportunity I got.
I sucked in a breath. “What are you going to do to me?”
A smile came fully to his face, almost malicious in its intensity. “You still owe me six months. That was in the contract you agreed to.”
“Why? What could you possibly want to do to me?”
“Exactly what I originally intended.”
My eyes opened wide, my head snapping back. “No. You cannot. You cannot still want me to carry your babe.”
His smile broadened and his head angled to the side, his voice silky smooth in my ear. “Are you afraid of me, Ada? Afraid of what I will do to you? What I will take from you?”
My legs found a way to move and I jabbed a step backward. “The only thing I am, is disgusted by you.”
I spun and strode toward the castle. Only by the grace of Zeus was I able to keep my legs from breaking into a sprint.
For Iwasafraid of him.
Was afraid his son might just be right.
Damen wasn’t fully sane.
Chapter9
{ Ada }
Aday later, wind slashed at the windows of the castle, snow blinding the view.
One improvement to the castle, wind like this would have shaken the old glass in its panes. But the new windows set in the stones were solid, not brittle with time. Same openings, same stone sashes, but the glass now kept in the heat and kept out the cold drafts.
