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lover.” Her gaze automatically shifted to the heavy arched doors that Zepar had recently stormed through.
    Leraye’s callused fingers cupped her cheek and brought her attention back to him. “What if I offered to give you those things?”
    He kissed a trail down her neck, and nuzzled the sensitive spot where her shoulder connected with her neck before licking his way to her breasts.
    Her heart bump-bumped with a frantic beat. “You are in love with another.” She swallowed away the lump in her throat. She couldn’t speak Zepar’s name.
    “Who is to say I couldn’t be in love with you too?” He twirled his tongue around her hardening bud as if trying to coax her body into agreement.
    Even as her heart petrified, her body melted. His sensual attention was like a balm to her battered soul. Affection and arousal eddied through her. They would be a good match. And they had at least one thing in common. They both loved Zepar.
    And Zepar wouldn't allow himself to love Leraye or Thalia. If wasn’t quite what she had dreamed of...well, that would have to be okay.
    ***
    Zepar paced the Prince’s war room. Where the hell was Leraye? And what the hell had happened in that chamber?
    “Sit down.” Gaap commanded him. “You’re driving me crazy.”
    Zepar dropped into one of the chairs that surrounded the massive round table and promptly began tapping one finger on the rowan slab.
    The ornate door swung open and Leraye strode in with a jaunty swagger.
    For some reason, Leraye’s cocky grin grated on Zepar’s nerves. He glowered at his old friend.
    Old friend . Somehow that label didn’t fit right anymore. Something had changed in that room. And Zepar didn’t know how to change it back. “Why are you so happy?”
    How could Leraye be so happy when Zepar was still so confused?
    One of Leraye’s dark eyebrows rose. He stared hard at Zepar hard then shifted to Gaap. He bowed low. “Prince.”
    You are recovered, then?” Prince Gaap studied Leraye, searching for signs of ill effects from the Fae spell.
    “I am very well.” Leraye stood in front of the Prince.
    “You seem to be fully recovered. More than recovered, you appear to be thriving." Prince Gaap motioned for Leraye to sit. "So let's discuss what has happened since you were frozen.”
    “I could hear your words even though I was not responsive.” Leraye leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms over his massive chest. His muscles bunched and he was very carefully not looking at Zepar.
    Why wouldn't Leraye look at him?
    ‘We need to figure out what the Fae did to you.” Zepar didn’t want the same to happen to Leraye again.
    Leraye nodded. “Agreed.”
    “Any ideas? We looked for a dart, any wound on your body, but could find none.” A fine sheen of sweat covered Zepar’s face as he remembered the frantic search for a wound, then the raging disappointment when they found nothing.
    “I believe it was some sort of massive electrical overload that rendered me basically null. Unable to move, unable to do anything.”
    Gaap studied him. “But you were aware?”
    “I could hear you and see you but I couldn’t make my body obey any commands.”
    "How could such a strong pulse be delivered?" Gaap asked. "Smaller pulses injured me in the last battle against the Fae and rendered my magick useless for a bit."
    “Maybe that’s why they didn’t hit you again,” Leraye said to Gaap. “They used all of their energy to freeze me.”
    “Perhaps.”
    “I wonder why they did not employ the same tool against me in the woods last night,” Zepar mused.
    “Last night.” Leraye seemed to grow larger, his body hardened, readied for battle. “You put Thalia in danger when you went to find women.”
    Gaap raised a brow at him.
    “The Fae attacked and then ran away.” Zepar’s chest puffed with pride. “But not before Thalia managed to stab one with her iron knife.”
    “She was traumatized.” Leraye growled.
    “She told me she was fine." Zepar dismissed