"Freda Warrington - A Taste of Blood Wine" - читать интересную книгу автора (Warrington Freda)

wind. "Now that is blasphemy, beloved. Karl wronged me. He
cannot escape vengeance. You hate him! In your heart, I know you
want to help me punish him. So why are you fighting me?"
She looked away from him. Her eyes narrowed and moisture
gathered on her lower lashes. "Because I don't want him to come

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back to you. I never want to see him again. Never, ever. You know
that. I don't know how you can even ask this of me!"
Kristian felt the coil of ice tightening within him. Her objections
were an irritation; they meant nothing. "You'll help me… because
you love me, and hate him."
Ilona turned on him, feverish with rage. "I hate you both, at this
moment. If he comes back here, I shall leave! You think you can
control everyone, but you can't have it both ways!"
Kristian clasped her arm. His large hand went right round the
slender limb, an iron shackle. The more she protested, the less he
cared; his heart felt black, a swollen thundercloud of justified wrath.
"It will be as I want it. You'll bring him back to me."
"What am I now, bait?" She drew back her lips in scorn. "You don't
imagine my presence could lure him back? My God, such
optimism."
"You are very slow, my beloved." Kristian let her go so suddenly
that she almost went over the balcony. "It is what will happen to
you if he ignores my invitation that will lure him."
She laughed, hard and angry. "Kristian, how can you have lived so
long and still be so stupid? He hates me as much as I hate him. He
knows you love me; he'll just laugh."
"Ah, there you are wrong. There you misjudge him completely. You
hate him, but he still loves you. He adores you completely."
Her expression changed. It might have been his voice, or his eyes,
the ruthless passion that radiated from him. Cruelty, humans called
it; but Kristian knew nothing of cruelty, only of righteousness.

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"What on earth could you threaten to do to me?" she whispered,
staring at him. But she knew the answer. She knew Kristian's
ruthlessness.
"Karl is stubborn; he does not respond to threats. The only way to
reach him is to do the deed. He'll be informed of your fate and told
that if he wants to save you, he had better come and talk to me."
"No! You can't do it!" Her anger and fear made her look enticing.
Kristian felt a dark excitement thread through him. She was fire and
blood. He reached for her.