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demon horns that protruded from just above her hairline. The same color as her lipstick, they were perhaps the length of his pinkie finger and curled downward at the front.
    Varin’s howl of fury tore through the chamber, alerting Luke that the man was on his feet and running toward the center of the room. Before Luke could even open his mouth to speak, Heidi’s eyes fluttered open.
    She had perhaps a fraction of a second in which to make sense of her surroundings. Her gaze settled firmly on Varin, who was rushing toward her with a speed borne of pure desperation.
    She lifted her hand. “ Lee’raa ti! ”
    For the second time that night, Varin’s body was hurled through the air and launched at a rock wall.

 
     
     
    Chapter Three
     
    Molten lava spilled silently over black rock, casting the cavernous room in shifting golden light. The flickering blaze illuminated a man’s broad-shouldered, lean-hipped form as he flew through the air to land halfway between his companion and the door.
    Magic swarmed at Heidi’s fingertips, tickling her skin. Her entire body thrummed with it, as though she’d become a living conduit for the power that spread through every blood cell traveling through her overheated veins. She rose; her gaze fixed firmly on the man who’d attempted to attack her.
    Despite the incessant pounding behind her temples, Heidi’s hand remained steady as she raised it and took aim.
    “No!”
    The savage cry had come from the golden-haired man. From the corner of her eye, Heidi saw him run to her attacker’s side, but her focus remained fixed on the man on the floor. Dark hair spilled halfway down his back, framing a slanted nose that looked to have been broken at least once, a firm mouth and chiseled cheekbones. He rolled onto his stomach, lifting himself to his hands and knees. She had a brief glimpse of an erect cock jutting out from between his legs to point forward, thick and long and hard.
    He turned his head then, and his gaze locked with hers. The man sucked in a breath between clenched teeth and froze in mid-rise as he took in her battle-ready stance.
    Heidi swallowed hard. His eyes were like nothing she’d ever seen before. Midnight black, deeper even than the color of his hair, they looked bottomless in his impossibly handsome face. She could get lost in those eyes. He had the power to hypnotize her, to hold her prisoner for as long as he cared to look at her that way -- as though his entire world had suddenly shattered around him, and she was at the center of the turmoil ravaging his soul.
    Heidi’s heart thudded a desperate rhythm, beating out of control. A jolt of recognition slammed into her gut, so potent and unexpected that it made the magic wrapped around her index finger flicker and begin to fade.
    The tangible thread of power that had wound up tightly within her began to unravel, dissolving into an ethereal fog that dissipated through the room. Her arm fell to her side, the magic lying dormant for the moment.
    “Who --”
    The sound of applause flooded the room, seeming to come from everywhere and nowhere at once. Thunderous clapping filled the air and thrummed against the pounding that had already settled behind her brows to turn the ache in her head to sheer agony.
    She dropped to her knees and pressed the heels of her palms against her temples in a feeble attempt to drown out the noise. The faint light in the room intensified, turning a deep crimson red. Brightness flooded Heidi’s vision, adding to the agony assaulting her senses.
    “Wonderful! For a moment there, I thought you were actually going to kill him. Although that is the point, isn’t it? In any case, it’s rather more fun if you take your time to play with your toys before destroying them, don’t you think?”
    That had apparently been a rhetorical question, as the masculine voice continued to boom through the room. “I gave no orders that they should be released. Grab them both and gag them.”
    The clapping had