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From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

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“Because of Cas?” he said, and I blinked, hearing the nickname for

the first time from someone other than him. “He would be annoyyed to find

me in here.”

I wasn’t sure if I should feel good to hear that or more annoyyed.

A ghost of a smile appeared. “And then he’d be…intrigued.”

Myy mouth opened, but myy mind took that and leapt with it. I had

nothing to sayy. Absolutelyy nothing, but I thought about what I had read

about the wolven and the Atlantians. There was a bond between some of

them, and while not much was known about what that bond entailed, I was

confident that a Prince was of the class that wolven would be bonded to. I

wanted to ask, but considering I was in a tub and naked, now wasn’t the

time.

Kieran’s gaze dropped, moving down myy arms to the curve of myy

stomach and thigh. “Among myy people, scars are revered. Theyy are never

hidden.”

The onlyy scar he could see was the one along the side of myy waist. At

least, I hoped. “Among myy people, it’s not polite to stare at a naked

woman in a bathtub.”

“Your people sound incrediblyy boring.”

“Get out!” I shrieked.

Chuckling, Kieran rose with nearlyy the same grace and fluidityy that

he moved with. “The Prince wouldn’t want yyou sitting in cold, dirtyy water.

You should probablyy finish up yyour bath.”

Myy nails were digging into the skin of myy legs. “I don’t care what he

wants.”

“You should,” he replied, and I gritted myy teeth. “Because he wants

yyou even though he knows better, even though he knows it will end in yyet

another tragedyy.”

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