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him, wiping her hands as if dusting them off. “My work here is done.”
    Keir had been kicked in the balls before, hard enough to damn near drop him to the ground. But this—this witch had done exactly that with a flick of magic from her fingers.
    Lise’s comment yesterday, about a woman driving him to his knees, chose that moment to enter his mind and he gave a low growl.
    Keir ground his teeth and forced himself to his feet.
Gods, he could not even begin to walk across the room. He probably would not be able to fuck for a week.
    He took a deep, slow breath. That was exactly what he was going to do with that witch. He had no doubt she wanted him, and he was going to make sure she enjoyed every minute of it. He would never take a woman by force. It would be just a matter of time before she admitted to herself that she desired him as much as he desired her.
    Godsdamn.
    Was he out of his mind?
    She’d tried to fry his cock, for the love of Fae.
    But he still wanted her.
    From the moment he had seen her across the room he had known he had to have her. He had never felt such an intense need to possess a woman as he had in that fraction of time. He had seen her nipples grow into taut nubs beneath her shirt and the way her eyes had widened and her pupils had dilated told him she wanted him.
    And she had seemed familiar … something about her face …
    The face in the wood. The image he had carved last night had looked almost exactly like this witch. What in the name of Underworld?
    When he finally managed to stand, he braced one hand on the table and straightened to his full height. Gods, the pain. He looked at the sea of faces in the room. Damnation, he could barely focus. Just about everyone had stopped what they were doing to stare at him.
    The warriors, witches, and human PSF officers looked away and started talking again, most grinning. There was the unmistakable sound of laughter from a few. He saw Hawk’s amused look and wanted to slam his fist into his half-brother’s jaw.
    The pain in his groin would not let him take the steps needed to do so.
    Keir took a deep breath and focused on trying to speak as he turned to face Copper, who was now standing beside him. Copper looked like she was trying not to laugh, but fortunately
for his pride she managed to keep her expression straight.
    â€œWho was that wench?” he asked, finding it harder to talk than he had thought.
    â€œEr, ‘wench’?” Copper grinned. “Damn, Keir. Your balls might just get another blast if she hears you call her that.”
    The mere thought brought a fresh round of pain and he could barely keep from wincing.
    â€œRhiannon.” Copper cocked her head to the side. “What did you do to piss her off like that?”
    â€œI simply told the woman that I planned to bed her.”
    Copper released a burst of laughter. “Really? You’re lucky a zap to your nuts was all she did.”
    Keir nearly growled. “I am hungry,” he said, even though at this moment he was not sure he could eat. Doing his best not to limp, he grabbed a paper plate and started spooning what was left of the baked beans onto it.

Chapter 4
    Darkwolf was having an increasingly difficult time keeping his emotions hidden from Ceithlenn as she paced to and fro in the penthouse.
    The manipulative bitch had been there five days and he wanted to kill her. She ordered him and every other being around and forced Darkwolf to bow to her when she was in the mood to be worshipped.
    Goddamn but that pissed him off. Her magic was too powerful for him to stop her from forcing him to practically kiss her boots. He gritted his teeth and kept his thoughts masked behind steel walls in his mind that not even the essence of Balor had been able to penetrate.
    He’d become very good at masking his thoughts from Ceithlenn, as well as Balor’s essence.
    If only Darkwolf’s Balorite Clan had not been destroyed by Ceithlenn,