[Music recommendation: Andrea Vanzo, Evgeny Grinko – Nostos (Dark Version)]
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There was a darkness in those beguiling blue eyes that made it seem as though he was… angry.
Was it because she had dared to enter his home without invitation?
It wasn't as though their first phone conversation had ended on a pleasant note. Given that, Aliana could only assume that her intrusion had done little to improve his temper.
As silence stretched between them, she grew increasingly nervous, a faint dizziness washing over her, as though she might collapse before she could even begin to explain herself.
But Gavriel spoke first.
"I warned you, didn't I, Aliana?" His deep, masculine voice reverberated through the air like silk. Her name rolled off his sinful lips so seductively that it made her want to roll her eyes in reluctant delight.
That thought alone made her brows knit in confusion until she heard him continue, "You step into my world, and I will ruin you in ways you never imagined."
