Sophia got up, taking one last look at the extraordinary daughter Councilor Nikita Duncan had borne.

Are you?” “What?” “Venomous?” Another savage smile. He touched the tip of one fang with his tongue and when he drew it away, she saw a pearl of golden liquid. “Try me and see.” “Maybe later, after I’ve survived Michaela.

Nothing is stronger than the will of the human heart.

Surely you’re not going to practice discretion now?

As her skin sizzled under the delicious heat, she supposed she should’ve been giving serious thought to the lunacy of what she was doing playing with a vampire, who was, for all his charm, as lethal as a stiletto across the throat. But then again, most of her friends already thought she was half a nut short of a fruitcake. Why disappoint?

Remember that,” he groaned. “And tell everyone you know.

Pack is built on the bonds of family, of mating, of love. You come first. You always will.