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heart or my love, the way she remembered Antonio doing over the
last week. Antonio spoke of forever. Armand spoke of the first
night of many, not the first night of the rest of their
lives…
    Tansy sighed. When had things become so
complicated? She continued to watch the two men, her mind made up.
Whatever it was about this Dragon’s Desire, it had certainly thrown
her for a loop.
    She never expected to fall in love with
one man and fall in lust with another. It just didn’t seem right.
Even though Armand still exuded the pheromones or whatever brought
on by the Dragon’s Desire, her heart still wanted Antonio. There
was something about him that made her burn inside. That she wanted
them both so insistently, told her that something wasn’t as it
should be. Tansy wasn’t a fickle woman and she knew, deep down
inside, that what she felt for Armand just wasn’t right. Tansy’s
mind had been telling her that since her sister, Rose, left with
her own mate, Viktor. Her body just hadn’t been
listening.
    Ever since Antonio first approached
her, she knew that things with him would get hot between
them…literally and they had been. Something about him brought out
her penchant for burning things with her magic to the point where
almost everyone avoided her. She’d even burned her brother-in-law,
Drake’s, assistant, Martin Baccus’s hair off, the poor man—almost
all of his hair, not just some of it.
    Tansy shuddered at the thought that
somehow she had even managed to burn the hair off of the man’s
genitalia without even trying. That action brought forward the
question of what she had been thinking about to mind—namely, her
sisters’ minds.
    Whatever it was, it left Drake’s
harried assistant as smooth as a baby everywhere but the top of his
head. Ever since then, everyone avoided her but Antonio and now
Armand. She watched the two men as they stepped away and lowered
their voices. So what if they didn’t want her hearing what they
said to each other? She’d already made up her mind to leave with
Antonio. If what she felt for Armand was real, she would still feel
that way in the morning and she didn’t have to lower her moral
standards by sleeping with a man she had only just met a few short
hours ago. Just that she could control her base urges now that
Antonio was here was telling. It made sense that he spoke the
truth.
    Tansy knew it was time to go
when the two men began to smoke. Literally. It was when Antonio
began to shimmer in some strange iridescent red-orange color that
she knew it was time they left before someone got hurt. This room
would never hold him in dragon form and she didn’t want him to get
injured. That she didn’t give a damn about Armand’s welfare was
telling, even in her artificially aroused state— and she did believe it was
artificial now. Just the thought of Antonio hurting himself by
shifting shape while in the confines of this small room made her
almost sick with worry.
    Standing, she moved to rest her hand on
Antonio’s forearm as he stood staring at Armand whose expression
was just as hard and unforgiving. “Don’t do this, Antonio. Please
don’t.” He turned his attention to her, his emerald-colored eyes
looking reptilian with their elongated pupils glowing with the need
to protect what he believed was his.
    Tansy bit her lip, her cheeks burning
with some strange inner heat she never knew she possessed before
meeting Antonio. Whatever was between them only seemed to fuel the
fire within her. That was what made her run from him…from
everyone.
    Like her sister Rose, Tansy
didn’t want to hurt anyone…most of all, him. “I will leave with
you, if you go now.” She turned at Armand’s growl. “He’s right,
Armand. Think about it. Not once have you committed to anything
beyond many nights together.”
    “ You are mine, Tansy,”
Armand said as he continued to glare at Antonio for a minute before
turning his attention to her.
    Stepping back, she avoided the other
man as