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Authors: Sharie Kohler
Darkest Temptation (10 page)
After a stretch of silence, he answered, “Darius.”
Darius
. An old name. Although he couldn’t be older than she was, she knew she faced someone nearly as ancient. He would not be easy to escape—even with her gifts. And she didn’t want to use her powers. Didn’t want to lure Balthazar back in. Nothing, not even this lycan, would change her mind about that.
“I’m not going anywhere with you, Darius.”
At the door, he stopped and looked over his shoulder at her. A faintly sinister smile curled his lips. “You think you have a choice?”
An angry epithet rose to her lips. He was wrong if he thought she was some helpless female to be kept in chains indefinitely.
She shook her head at him slowly. “You have no idea what I’m capable of.”
His pewter eyes iced over, chilling her to the core. “Oh, I know exactly what you’re capable of . . .
witch
.”
She flinched at the cruel emphasis he placed on the last word.
Without saying anything else, he turned and left the room. She stared at the empty door for a long moment, fighting back the urge to shout after him that she wasn’t this horrible being he thought her.
She wasn’t
. . .
The words stuck in her throat. She’d have to fully believe that to say it.
* * *
Darius stood silently beside the bed, looking down, watching the witch sleep. He crossed his arms. He’d found her. The demon witch he’d hunted since he stumbled upon the knowledge of her existence three years ago. It was best to think of her in those terms.
Demon witch.
Not Tresa. Not female. Not woman.
Her chest rose and fell evenly. The tears hadn’t yet dried on her cheeks and an uncomfortable knot formed in his chest.
The demon witch he had envisioned in his head, the one responsible for creating the first lycan that had gone on to spawn thousands, wasn’t supposed to weep.
He cocked his head as he looked down at her. She was all too human. At least she appeared that way. He cursed softly beneath his breath and shook his head. She was an evil, soul-sucking witch. He was a fool to consider her anything less.
Also by Sharie Kohler
Night Falls on the Wicked
My Soul to Keep
To Crave a Blood Moon
Kiss of a Dark Moon
Marked by Moonlight
Haunted By Your Touch
(with Jeaniene Frost and Shayla Black)
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Previously published in 2010 in the collection titled Haunted by Your Touch
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