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to oblige you.” He glanced
toward Tansy who Armand seemed content to keep on the floor
confused. With a curse, he moved over to help Tansy to her feet.
“Please, Tansy, let me talk with Armand alone.”
    He didn’t want her to see
the dark side of him that he continued to battle for control. It
would frighten her. He had no desire for her to think of herself as
nothing more than a prize—nothing more than a dragon’s treasure.
Though she would be his greatest treasure, she was so much more than that. Yet, he
knew if he had to, he would kill Armand before he let the man touch
Tansy again.
    “ You’re under the influence
of Dragon’s Desire, Armand.” Tony didn’t take his attention from
Tansy. He wanted to see her reaction when she realized that what
she felt for Armand was nothing more than a reaction to a drug…a
very powerful drug.
    What she felt for Tony over the last
week was real. And he knew she had felt something for him. It was
in the way she looked at him, danced with him and rubbed her body
against his like a cat in need of attention. That wasn’t something
caused by an aphrodisiac thought extinct by the world. She was his
mate and it was time he claimed her.
    He had wanted to give her time to get
to know him, time to come to terms with the fact that they were
meant for each other, but with the plant or at least parts of it,
being carried about to parts unknown by God knew who, he had to
stake his claim or take the chance of losing her forever. Something
told him that if she made love with another dragon because of the
aphrodisiac, she would never forgive herself.
    “ What Tansy feels for you is
nothing more than the effects of a drug long thought dead.
Somewhere you came in contact with it and it’s in your blood,
sending out mating hormones. Fake mating hormones,” he added with a glance toward
Tansy. “Soon it will wear off and then you will see that I’m
telling the truth. It isn’t real.” He reached out to her. “What you
feel for him isn’t real, Tansy. Remember what you felt for me
before you met Armand and let your mind tell you I speak the
truth.”

Chapter Two
     
     
    Tansy stared at Antonio. His dark hair
fell over one eye in that cute way that made her fingers
practically itch to brush it back. She knew it would do no good.
That stray lock of hair always seemed to fall over his left eye,
giving him that rakish look she found so appealing. As usual, all
of her feminine parts stood up and took notice when Antonio was in
the same room with her.
    Frowning, she alternated looking at
each of the men and wondered if Antonio spoke the truth. She wanted
it to be the truth. Never had she been so fickle as to be attracted
to two men at the same time and she knew Antonio. Her attraction to
him made sense. Her attraction to Armand did not. Maybe that was
why she kept having second thoughts. She looked at Armand and felt
nothing beyond the desire she felt from the moment she laid eyes on
him. When she looked at Antonio, however, he made every feminine
part of her tingle with anticipation.
    It was as though all of her
girly parts reached out for him as he stood in the doorway looking
like some avenging angel bent on the rescue of his damsel in
distress. Not only that, she felt something more intense than what
she felt for Armand. It was a need deep inside her that told her
this was the man her heart wanted, no matter how much her body may want
Armand.
    Biting her lip, she moved
toward Antonio. Even if he wasn’t telling the truth, he was the man she had lusted
for over the last week, not Armand and it didn’t make sense that
she would suddenly want the other man more. No. It made sense that
she was under the influence of some strange drug like Antonio
said.
    Besides, now that she thought about it,
not once did Armand say anything about a lifetime together. Not
once had he indicated that their time together would last for the
rest of their lives. He had called her sweetheart, and honey, not
my