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were having their souls ripped from their bodies.
    “Stop it,” Regan yelled, but it was too late.
    “I warned them,” he said, as he hauled her out of the building. “And I’m not in the mood for second chances, Regan. Keep that in mind.”
    The second they were outside headquarters, Than threw a gate and tugged Regan through it. They came out at his Greenland keep in a marked-off area set aside specially for gates—the things had a tendency to slice people in half if they materialized next to or on top of someone.
    Wind roared across the dark, barren landscape, carrying with it the faint tang of the nearby ocean and smoke from the fires inside the keep. Regan’s ponytail fluttered as she stepped onto the grass, her cheeks pinking up from the cool breeze. It might be summer, but it was still cold, cloudy, and wet.
    “Why are we here?”
    He took her elbow and marched her toward the door. “I live here.”
    “I know that,” she ground out. “But I figured you’d want to go someplace less obvious. Especially since you’re now going to have the entire Aegis organization after you for kidnapping me and killing a Guardian.”
    “You figured wrong.” He shoved open the door, and immediately his vampire servants came running.
    “Master!” Viktor’s dark eyes were wide, a grin splitting his face. “You’re back. We didn’t know or we’d have prepared—”
    “It’s okay. I’ll be back to talk to you later.” He led Regan down the stone steps to his dungeon, and when she resisted halfway, he swept her up and carried her. Oddly, where her belly touched his armor, her heat burned right through the bone plate.
    “Let…me…go.” She struggled in his arms, and he cursed, gripping her tighter while trying not to hurt her.
    “Stop it. You’ll injure yourself or the baby.” A glint of silver flashed, and he blocked the blade before it bit into his cheek. With a snap of his wrist, he broke Regan’s grip on the dagger and it clattered to the stone steps. “Let me guess. Coated in hellhound venom? Nice try.”
    “It’s also imbued with a locator spell, you giant ass. The Aegis will be able to track me.”
    “Right,” he drawled, “because they won’t guess that you’re at my place. Seeing how
I
took you.”
    She sank her teeth into his hand and he yelped, but he didn’t put her down until they reached the first cell. Quickly, he shoved her inside before she bit him again. Not that he was opposed to biting, but there were more appropriate times for that.
    Oh, look… you got laid once and you’re already making everything about sex
.
    “You’re just going to leave me here?” Regan asked, incredulous.
    He slammed the cage door. “Yes.”
    Crimson splotches colored her pale cheeks, and she hugged herself, rubbing her bare arms. “Can I at least have a blanket?”
    Fuck. Now he felt like a heel. She was dressed for summer in a gauzy white blouse, khaki capris, and bare feet, but it was freezing down here year round, and while it didn’t affect him, she was human, and she’d succumb to hypothermia. He shouldn’t care. In fact, he didn’t. But he wasn’t going to let her die while his baby was inside her.
    “Well?” When he didn’t say anything, because he wasactually considering taking her back upstairs, she sighed. “Look, I know you’re angry—”
    “Angry?” he spat. “You drugged me, restrained me, took my virginity, and then left me so pissed off that my siblings had to imprison me for over eight months.
Angry
doesn’t even begin to cover it. Were you
trying
to start the Apocalypse? Does The Aegis know what you did, or were they in on it?”
    “I didn’t know you were restrained, Than. I lost control of my ability, and I didn’t realize it was attacking you.” She shivered … or maybe it was a shudder. “And I didn’t drug you. I mean, obviously, you were drugged, but it wasn’t my idea. One of your vampires gave me that wine.”
    “None of my vampires would betray