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back at her. “You
    gave yourself away, darlin’, when you started talking about Lucifer and his microchip
    for a brain. You should keep your online and offline insults separate if you want to
    hide.”
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    She was trembling from fury. She couldn’t remember ever being so angry. She had
    shared things with Wicked. He had been her comfort, someone to be at ease with,
    someone she had thought understood. Pain seared her chest even as she acknowledged
    the fact that she should have expected it. Had even once suspected it.
    “I’ll resign,” she snapped. “I’ll be damned if I’ll continue to work for you any
    longer.”
    Lucian shrugged mockingly. “You’ll be too tired to work anyway, once we’re
    finished with you, so do what you please.”
    Her teeth snapped together as she fought to hold back her screams of outrage.
    “I will not be your toy,” she informed him coldly. “Yours or Devril’s.”
    His eyes narrowed. “You’ll be much more that that, Tally,” he told her darkly.
    “Like it or not, the countdown starts now. Enjoy your freedom while you can. I told
    you, baby, you made a mistake in the office that last day. You gave no quarter, damn
    you, I better not hear you asking for it.”
    “That sounds like a threat.” She fought for imperious calm but was afraid she came
    across as viperously snide.
    “I prefer to see it as a promise,” he told her enigmatically. “But you can take it
    however you like. We will have you, Tally, eventually.”
    “In your dreams.” She was shaking in fury now. Fury and lust. She didn’t know if
    she wanted to kill him or fuck him.
    “Tally?” Terrie called out firmly. “Now.”
    Tally’s lip curled insultingly as she stared at Lucian a second longer before she
    turned and hurried toward Terrie’s voice. She was flushed, furious and just plain tired.
    Dealing with Terrie now wasn’t something she was looking forward to.
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Chapter Seven
    Terrie had no emergency. Tally was almost amused when she realized her friend
    had followed Lucian and Dev, determined to protect her from whatever plans they had.
    The emergency had been no more than a ruse to get her out of their arms and back into
    the house so Terrie could assure herself that Tally knew what she was getting into.
    She was furious, but a tiny part of her was amazed and in awe that they had
    managed to fool her so effectively. It had never been done before. This was a first for
    her. It would be funny if she weren’t so damned mad.
    “You can sleep here.” Terrie led her into the guest bedroom nearly an hour later
    after a less than polite argument on the merits of Tally spending the night.
    Tally would have preferred the drive home to staying in a strange bed, but when
    Terrie got that wounded, hurt look on her face, it was damned near impossible to say
    no. They had been friends for too long, had been through too much together to let a
    man destroy that friendship.
    “I’ll get you one of my gowns,” Terrie said softly as Tally sat wearily on the bed.
    “You know where everything else is.”
    “Terrie, this really isn’t necessary.” Tally sighed. “I would truly prefer to just drive
    home.”
    “And I would prefer that you stopped hiding from me,” Terrie said in that
    wounded voice Tally hated so much. “You’ve barely spoken to me in the last few
    months, Tally.”
    “Jesse keeps you pretty busy.” Tally shrugged. “And we’ve done things. We’ve
    gone out to dinner and drinks.”
    Tally stared around the bedroom, avoiding Terrie’s gaze. She didn’t want her friend
    to know exactly how much she missed the late night chats and periodic sprees to the
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    tattoo artist or piercing salon. Terrie was one of the few friends she had that could
    appreciate such excursions.
    “All very polite and very chilled.” Terrie plopped down on the corner of the bed.
    “Are you upset over that night with Jesse?”
    Tally grinned. Now that had been fun.