“Why don’t you?”
His smile wavered. “Why don’t I?”
“Escape,” she said, hands stilling on the papers strewn across the desk. “You could leave at any time, couldn’t you?”
Those amber eyes were alien as they stared at her. “I could,” he agreed, tone neutral. “What would I do that’s half so entertaining as your floundering, though? Lead a revolt? Start a war?”
Her expression must have been shocked, because he laughed.
It was so easy to forget what he was. That he was dangerous.
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