Her eyes popped open and I could read the surprise and something else. "Like this?" I asked, my mouth only a few inches from her ear, my arms on either side of her. "Unfortunately, I can't make my eyes glow the way you do," she said. I started moving toward her through the water. She looked so uncomfortable leaning like that. Her hard stare was good, but mine was major league. And when I stared at someone, they felt it and they wanted very badly for me to stare at someone else.
I could also do it whenever I wanted, really.
I also glared menacingly for added effect." "And they believed you?" It slowly dawned on me that they had obeyed her. "I declared that since you accepted the Order's assistance, I outranked everybody." Of all the women I'd been with over the years, how many would have done that? Maybe she cared enough to want to spare me that pain. Would she really have done it? We all knew she cared a great deal and it would have hurt her badly to have to kill him. More like horrible responsibility, one that was ours to carry. "How exactly did you push Jim aside? He was the highest alpha.
She said it like an alpha - no bluster, just matter of fact. "I didn't want you to have to kill ," she said, her eyes still closed.
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