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clouded with disgust. “Why would
you associate with such a cowardly man?”
    The honesty of the question made her laugh “Good question. He’s
a talented musician. Unfortunately.”
    Kaden snorted. “I have my doubts. What need do you have of a
musician?”
    “Because most people won’t hire me to stand on a stage by
myself and sing.”
    That seemed to interest him. “You sing? I would like to hear
this.”
    Tess felt herself blushing. She hadn’t been afflicted with
stage fright in years, but she was pretty sure those eyes on her would do it.
Rather than answer him, Tess crossed her arms over her chest and tried to
concentrate on the more immediate problem of Kaden being here at all. He was
big, beautiful and utterly out of place in her apartment.
    “What are you doing here?”
    “You ran.”
    “Well, yeah, ” Tess replied. “You
tell me you’re a dragon. I see you bare your fangs and blow smoke. Then you tell
me to stay put before leaving me alone. Are you really shocked I took off?”
    His lips twitched, and Tess flushed as she remembered the feel
of them as they’d moved against her skin. Her breath faltered, just a little,
and his focus on her intensified. She cleared her throat.
    “Look, I know why you’re here. I still can’t get the necklace
off. I’ve called Morgan and left a message. Hopefully she’ll know someone who
can remove it without breaking it. I’m also hoping she can tell me what the hell
is going on, because I’ve given up trying to figure it out.”
    “I told you, she’s a witch. She’s not to be trusted. “
    Despite what she’d seen today, it still sounded insane. “I’m
not ready to accept that until I talk to her. Until then, you’re just going to
have to wait. Somewhere else,” she added. She didn’t know what to do with him in
here. She had ideas, of course, but they were all...unacceptable.
    “No,” Kaden said.
    Tess stared. “No?”
    His deep voice was very matter-of-fact. “My dragyn-ka has chosen you. Thus you are mine. I will
find and punish the witch for her schemes against me, but that changes nothing
where you are concerned.”
    There was a deep, dark part of her that thrilled when he called
her mine. It was surprisingly difficult to put that
aside when she answered him.
    “Okay,” Tess said, running her hand nervously through her hair.
“I don’t even know where to start. For one thing, I am not anyone’s property.
For another, you sneaking into my apartment is freaky. How did you find me so
quickly?”
    “Scent, of course. The flight was nothing.”
    Tess paused, considered responding to that, and then shook her
head. “Whatever. I’m not just going to—”
    “We will stay here until the hunters have moved on,” Kaden
interrupted her, looking around. “It is...adequate. Though I won’t be able to
properly enjoy my hoard.”
    Her eyes widened. “You didn’t bring all of your treasure here
somehow, did you? I don’t have any room! And what hunters?”
    He looked vaguely surprised. “Of course I brought it. I’m a dragon. As for the hunters, they have chased my
kind, in this world and my own, for many centuries. This place has been safe for
some time, but the witch seems to have stirred them up.”
    Tess sighed. For as frustrating as her life sometimes was, she
was beginning to prefer it to crazy.
    “Hunters. You mean the guys outside your house?” She’d found
them creepy, but at that point, nothing had seemed safe. Kaden nodded.
    “You wakened me, and they arrived. But I will not be her pawn.
I am finished with that fight, as I told her. No peace offering changes
that.”
    “Yeah...I didn’t understand a word of that. You know Morgan?”
    Kaden huffed out a smoky breath. “I know she likes to meddle in
things that are none of her affair. Morgan Le Fay is no ordinary witch.”
    Tess made a soft sound of agreement, though she really didn’t
want to get into a discussion about the legends surrounding the witch of the
same name in