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smiled when she glanced over her shoulder. “Do you wear your hair so short so I’ll be enchanted by the nape of your neck. The way it slopes there, it make me just want to…lick at it.”
    â€œNo.” Just listen to the way he uses that voice, she thought. The women of Geall must scamper after him like puppies. “I wear it short because it doesn’t give the enemy much to grab and pull if he wants to fight like a girl.” She turned back. “And it looks good on me.”
    â€œIt does, that it does. Like a faerie queen. I always thought, if they existed, they’d have strength and courage in their faces.”
    He leaned toward her again, and she laid the blade of a sword against his chest.
    He looked down at it, up at her. This time his smile was full of fun. “That’s a good bit more than no. I was just going to kiss you again. I wouldn’t ask for anything else. Just one more kiss.”
    â€œYou’re awful damn cute,” she said after a minute. “And I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t tempted. But because you’re awful damn cute and tempting, we’re going to leave it at one.”
    â€œAll right then, if that’s the way it has to be.” He reached past her, picked up an ax, the bucket of stakes. “But I’m just going to be thinking about another one. And so are you.”
    â€œMaybe.” She started toward the house, arms loaded with weapons. “A little frustration will give me a nice edge.”
    He shook his head as he looked after her. She was, he thought, the most fascinating of women.

Chapter 4
    B lair went straight up to put the weapons in the training area, then went down the back stairs to the kitchen. Larkin could clean the swords, she decided. Work off some of that sexual energy.
    She found Glenna there, and the kettle on.
    â€œI’m making some tea, a blend that should take the edge off the day.”
    â€œI’ve heard alcohol does that.” And considering it, Blair opened the refrigerator for a beer.
    â€œThat’s for later—for me. My system’s a little twisted up yet. Hoyt went up to see Cian, fill him in.”
    â€œGood. We need to talk, Glenna.”
    â€œCould I take you through the steps and stages of the spells later, if you need them? It’s all a little too hard and bright just now.”
    â€œNo, I don’t need them—that’s your territory.” Blair boosted herself onto the table, watched Glenna keep her hands busy. “I mean that. When it comes to this area, I’m a civilian. There are some magically inclined, and fairlyskilled people, in my family. But nowhere near what you guys have.”
    â€œI have more than I did before. Maybe I’m more open to it now.” Taking a few pins out of her pocket, Glenna efficiently bundled her hair up. “Maybe it’s the connection with Hoyt, the connection we all have to each other. But whatever it is, I’m finding power inside me I never imagined.”
    â€œLooks good on you, too. You need to know, to accept, to understand, what the three of you did today was amazing, and it was powerful, and it saved lives. And regardless of that, you have to know, accept and understand it isn’t something you can do again. At least not anytime soon.”
    â€œWe could get more, I think,” Glenna said without turning around. “Maybe only one or two at a time. We were greedy, we wanted to get all we could, and we burned it all too long.”
    â€œGlenna, it’s your territory, like I said. But I’m the one who was looking at the three of you after the serious whammy went down. The fact is, both Larkin and I thought, for a minute there, you were dead. What you were was all but emptied out.”
    â€œYes, that’s exactly right. Exactly the right term for it.”
    â€œYou may not come back from it the next time.”
    â€œIsn’t that why we’re here?”