Page 271 of Sins of the Heart
look at her, his eyes bright and hard, his words so low
she had to strain to hear them. “You weren’t supposed
to go looking for them, draw their attention, get snared
in their web. You were supposed to marry a fucking accountant and live in a house with a picket fence.”
“An accountant—”
“You were supposed to have babies and a dog—”
his words grew louder, more forceful “—and drive
them around in a fucking minivan. You were supposed
to go to fucking yoga on fucking Wednesday nights.”
“Yoga?” Bewildered, both by his words and the
barely suppressed violence behind them, she stared at
him. “Did you really believe that was going to happen?”
He raked his fingers through his hair. “Yeah. I
really did.”
And she sort of understood that. Hadn’t she wanted
exactly that for the girls she’d saved from the lesser
demon who worked as an enforcer for Hades? She’d
wanted them to head back to their normal, high school
lives.
She stared at Dagan, suddenly seeing the tension in
his features, the dark shadows beneath his eyes.
She ought to leave it alone. She knew that. Instead,
she swallowed and asked, “How did that make you
feel?”
“What?”
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“The idea of—” she lifted one hand and waved it,
palm up “—me living the life you describe? Marrying
an accountant and ferrying my kids around in a minivan.”
