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Miles

She was lying.But why was she lying?

I watched as she slept, telling myself it was unnatural to do it but unable to stop myself.

If I could only get into that head of hers and understand why she did what she did. I wished it were as easy to understand her motives as it was for me to see through her obvious attempts at convincing me she didn’t have a dark past.

It took no small measure of self-control to keep from promising her the world. No matter what she was afraid of, I would make it all go away. Woe to the man or woman who thought they could tell her what to do, woe to he or she who dared threaten or intimidate her. I’d grind them into the dust and laugh as I did it. I’d bring her home with me and protect her until my dying breath.

Though the dragon urged me to tell her all of this and more, I’d held my tongue. He wasn’t exactly skilled at the art of romancing a woman. For him, everything was simple. Find what belonged to him, take it and make it his.

Human women were slightly more complicated than that. And I wanted her to want me, not to come with me out of a sense of duty or because she was running away from a threat.

She was mine. No one else’s. But I wouldn’t force her. She would love me and want me as much as I wanted her, if this was the real thing.

If we were truly fated for each other.

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